The final release of Angular 2

On September 15, the final release of the second version of the popular Angular 2 single-page web application framework took place .







In the second version, Angular uses TypeScript as the main language, but also provides a version with Dart and ECMAScript6 .



The main components of Angular:

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• Modules - Angular applications have a modular structure;
• Components - control the display of data in the application;
• Templates - templates for displaying data (templates in Angular are similar to plain HTML, but have syntactic “sugar” to link to components);
• Metadata (Metadata) - to describe the behavior of components and classes;
• Data binding is a convenient way to organize the interaction of templates and components;
• Directives (Directives) - components to extend the capabilities of the template engine;
• Services (Services) - any components for the operation of the logic of your application;
• Dependency injection (Dependency injection) - a simple way to provide component instances with external dependencies;
• Router (Router) - component to provide navigation through the application;
• Forms (Forms) - a component for working with user input;
• Animation (Animations) - components for animating the user interface;
• And much more...

Angular 2 supports the following browsers:

• Chrome
• Firefox;
• Edge> 13;
• IE> 9;
• Safari> 7;
• iOS> 7;
• Android> 4.1;
• IE mobile> 11.

It also has the ability to develop desktop applications with access to the native operating system API.



For ease of development, testing and deployment of applications, you can use Angular CLI , webpack , npm, SystemJS, Jasmine, Karma.



The framework includes an HTTP client and an in-memory API .



According to the team, support for AngularJS (1.x) will continue until most developers use it (today 1.3 million developers use Angular 1 and 480 thousand already use Angular 2).







Also, the developers have announced the imminent release of Angular 2 Material - a special version of the framework with material components.



Prior to this , the release of AngularJS 1.5 was released, designed to bridge the gap between AngularJS and Angular 2.



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For those already familiar with AngularJS:

• Features ;
• Angular 1 applications can be incrementally upgraded to Angular 2 ;
• Upgrading from 1.X.

PS Well, is it time to rename the AngularJS hub to Angular?