Jeremy Elbourn and Mark Thompson from the Angular team had their monthly Q&A live stream. While implementing chess in Angular, they discussed topics like Angular Material, learning Angular, standalone components, and a hint about something exciting coming up this week.
In this article, I'd like to present the main takeaways.
Angular Material & Standalone Components
Angular Material still uses NgModules. There is a challenge in how to deal with multiple imports. For example, in order to use a MatTab, we would have to import multiple standalone elements at once. The Angular team is currently searching for ways on how to improve that.
Angular Article on Micro Frontends and Module Federation
More than a year ago, there was an announcement about an official Angular article on the usage of Micro-Frontends / Module Federation. Mark was a little bit surprised because he thought that article was already available. But he promised to do a follow-up. So we can hope to get it soon.
Angular Material Components
Back to Angular Material. Compared with other UI libraries, the amount of components is not overwhelming. Unfortunately, the Angular team is already at its limit when it comes to maintaining the existing ones. So we will not get more components, but the ones we have will keep their high quality.
Learning Angular Course
An official video course for learning Angular is in its finishing phase. According to Marc, the recording is done and in post-production. That video course will be a great companion to the existing Tour of Heroes tutorial.
New RFC to be published
There was an interesting note from Jeremy. Answering a participant's question about the Input decorator, he said that he didn't want to pre-announce anything, but we should stay tuned to the GitHub repo this week.
Chances are high that we will get some details for the upcoming reactivity improvements in the form of an RFC.