JavaScript Weekly Difficulty 662: November 9, 2023

Reintroducing Angular with Angular v17 — Angular first appeared within the form of AngularJS in 2010 and helped launch a wave of large-scale JavaScript frameworks. Angular stays well-liked in lots of use circumstances however is commonly neglected in favor of newer choices. v17 takes a leap ahead in each options and imaginative and prescient, with the staff rebranding Angular and repositioning it as a contemporary resolution:

• Angular.dev is an all-new docs web site and residential for the venture (the brand new guides look implausible). It is in beta until Angular v18 is launched – you may study extra about it right here.
• Hydration is now manufacturing prepared.
• Vite and esbuild are the default for brand spanking new tasks.
• Improved assist for creating server aspect apps.
• New, improved built-in management movement to make code much less verbose.
• Google pulled out all of the stops for ▶️ the ‘Particular Angular Occasion’ – an hour of talks, interviews and discussions to convey you as much as pace.

Minko Gechev and the Angular Group

How one can Do a JS to TypeScript Conversion — Chris, who led the conversion of a 150k LOC app to TypeScript, addresses a standard query: do-it-as-you-go or comply with the dependency graph?

Chris Krycho

Writing Parts That Work in Any Framework — Appears at why internet elements may be troublesome to undertake, and reveals how utilizing a higher-level library can allow us to “simply write elements that work all over the place”.

Andrico Karoulla

🖼  image-dimensions: Get the Dimensions of Photos — Sindre’s newest creation is a straightforward however complete one. A method to get the scale (as width and peak in pixels) for JPEG, PNG, APNG, and GIFs in any fashionable JS atmosphere.

Sindre Sorhus