Create Apps with No Configuration
July 22nd, 2016
Create React App is a new officially supported way to create single-page React applications. It offers a modern build setup with no configuration. Getting Started # Installation # First, install the global package: npm install -g create-react-app Node.js 4.x or higher is required. Creating an App # Now you can use it to create a…
A dedicated team for AngularDart
July 20th, 2016
Until now, the multiple language flavors of Angular 2 were written as TypeScript source, and then automatically compiled to both JavaScript and Dart. We’re happy to announce that going forward, we are splitting the Angular 2 codebase into two flavors—a Dart version and a TypeScript/JavaScript version—and creating a dedicated Angular Dart team. While this single-source…
Mixins Considered Harmful
July 13th, 2016
“How do I share the code between several components?” is one of the first questions that people ask when they learn React. Our answer has always been to use component composition for code reuse. You can define a component and use it in several other components. It is not always obvious how a certain pattern…
Angular in China and beyond: Introducing angular.cn
July 12th, 2016
Please welcome Ralph Wang (汪志成) and Rex Ye (叶志敏), joining our blog as guest authors. Ralph is a developer, author, community lead, and Angular GDE in Beijing, China. Rex is an entrepreneur based in London. Together, they have led the first localization of angular.io for developers in China. We’re excited to share the newly-launched angular.cn with you! Read on…
Introducing React’s Error Code System
July 11th, 2016
Building a better developer experience has been one of the things that React deeply cares about, and a crucial part of it is to detect anti-patterns/potential errors early and provide helpful error messages when things (may) go wrong. However, most of these only exist in development mode; in production, we avoid having extra expensive assertions…
RC4 Now Available
June 30th, 2016
Today we’re happy to announce that we are shipping Angular 2.0.0-rc.4. This release includes many bugfixes and improvements, and makes testing easier and more flexible. What’s new? We’ve cleaned up our exported APIs so that they are simpler and more streamlined, and removed things that were never intended to be public. We have also added…
RC3 Now Available
June 22nd, 2016
Today we’re happy to announce that we are shipping Angular 2.0.0-rc3. What’s new? This release includes a fix for a major performance regression in RC2 The @angular/router project has been merged into our main repository ( It will retain its own version numbers and release cycle ) The Router documentation is now available. Content Security…
RC2 Now Available
June 16th, 2016
Today we’re happy to announce that we are shipping Angular 2.0.0-rc2. This release includes: Animation Framework Manage the animations in your application in a stateful manner. The underlying platform support, documentation, and code samples for Animations have landed. Improvements to Forms We’re shipping new techniques for building forms with clearer directive and object names, including…
Security updates for all active release lines, June 2016
June 13th, 2016
(Update 23-June-2016) Releases available After a thorough assessment of the fixes we were planning on including, we have decided to scale back this security update to only include a subset. We are deferring some fixes while we improve the required API changes in order to decrease the disruption that it may cause to users. The…
Improvements Coming for Routing in Angular
June 9th, 2016
A little more than a month ago, we introduced a new router at ng-conf. We hoped this would finally resolve the outstanding routing issues in our first design. It turns out, routing is hard. We’re grateful to have heard from many folks at ng-conf about flaws in this new design, so we are announcing version…