Andrew Scott on Angular's Router, Vitest with Younes Jaadi, Hashbrown and AI, State of JS and 100k stars, Maximilian's Angular retrospective, ngxtension 7.1 and ngDiagram 1.0.
Andrew Scott on Angular's Router
Andrew Scott, member of the Angular team, was a guest on Armen Vardanyan's podcast at Angular Space, and they discussed a wide range of topics.
They talked about a potential integration of resources into the router, where the router would know exactly what kind of data needs to be loaded and the loading could also be done in parallel. Right now we have a waterfall effect, where each segment with its resolvers needs to be loaded sequentially.
On RxJS, it is still going to become optional in the future, but that does not have the highest priority at the moment.
Another topic was the relationship between community libraries and Angular. For example, ngxtension has a lot of useful utility functions for the router, which would make sense to be part of the framework. Andrew meant that the framework should provide the building blocks and the community should build certain features on top of it.
The TypeScript rewrite in Go was also discussed. A lot of the Angular team's time is currently going into preparing for that rewrite.
Theoretically, a mixed approach might also be possible. Alex Rickabaugh, lead of the Angular framework, was not on the podcast, but he posted that they are looking into using Rust in some parts of Angular's compilation process.
Younes Jaadi on Vitest
Younes Jaadi posted a video about Vitest, which is Angular's default testing framework since Angular version 21.
His main focus was on the so-called browser mode, which uses an E2E-style runner such as Playwright or WebdriverIO to interact with the DOM. He shared technical insights and pragmatic tips on how to use Vitest.
Younes is highly respected in the Angular community and has been promoting Vitest in Angular before it became the official testing framework.
Manfred Steyer on Hashbrown and AI in Angular
AI shows up in many places, including Angular, where it can generate dynamic components, accept prompts, and call tools on the fly. A prominent library for this is Hashbrown.
Manfred Steyer has written a three-article series on the topic: basic setup, integrating a prompt, connecting with your application, and more advanced features such as dynamic components or letting Hashbrown execute code in the browser.
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State of JavaScript and Angular's popularity
State of JavaScript released the results from last year. Angular saw a rise in 2024 in metrics around popularity and satisfaction, and a small decline in 2025, with some gap to 2023. The survey's sample is often said to be not representative, so the numbers may not reflect the broader population.
Angular's repository on GitHub has reached 100,000 stars. For comparison, React has about 240,000 and Vue about 53,000. Enea Jahollari posted about a Reddit thread on the webdev subreddit where someone asked if Angular is still used; as Enea put it, there were some good comments about Angular.
Maximilian Schwarzmüller – 10 Years of Angular
Maximilian Schwarzmüller is a well-known name in Angular. His Udemy course has been the door opener for many Angular developers since 2016. He published a video titled "Looking back at 10 years of Angular - and into its future", covering the early days, milestones, and where we are now. If you want nostalgia or a brief overview of Angular's history, it's a good watch.
Also in the News
Ngxtension 7.1 brought injectParams.global(), which gives you one signal with all the parameters of the current route hierarchy.
ngDiagram had its first stable release with version 1. It has zero dependencies, is based on modern Angular, and lets you create interactive diagrams. It looks very promising.
If you use VS Code, check out the latest Angular VS Code extension; it includes some new goodies.
https://github.com/angular/angular/releases/tag/vsix-21.2.0/
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