OpenNG Foundation and spartan/ui 1.0 are the headline topics this week: a new home for libraries like Spectator and Elf, and spartan/ui, a stable shadcn-inspired component library for Angular.
Also in brief: Storybook's Angular modernization through AnalogJS, the end of ng-conf, and AI Dev Craft in Las Vegas.
OpenNG Foundation
Maintaining open-source libraries is hard work. Developers often do it in their spare time, committing to years of maintenance, adding new features, and responding to user requests.
Last episode, we reported that the ngneat organization was taken down for unknown reasons. While we still don't know why it happened, a new home has emerged for its popular libraries like Spectator and Elf: the OpenNG Foundation.
Gerome Grignon, known for CanIUseAngular and as the organizer of Ng-Baguette, announced the foundation, which is already hosting these libraries. Alongside Gerome, the current OpenNG team also includes Dominic Bachmann, organizer of Angular Lucerne and author of the angular-typed-router library.
OpenNG Foundation · GitHub
OpenNG Foundation has 8 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
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spartan/ui 1.0
spartan/ui has officially released its 1.0 version. It provides an "accessible, production-ready library of more than 55 components" with fully customizable styling.
After debuting in August 2023 with 30 primitives, it now reaches stable in 2026 with a modern architecture built around signals, standalone components, zoneless change detection, and SSR. Originally initiated by Robin Götz, a full team quickly formed around the project.
spartan/ui can be seen as the Angular equivalent to shadcn/ui, famous for its customizability. While similar open-source alternatives exist, spartan/ui was the pioneer and has a proven track record of active maintenance over the years.
AnalogJS in Storybook
Storybook’s Angular integration is getting a modernization, and it is all thanks to AnalogJS.
While modern versions of the Angular CLI use Vite under the hood as a development server, it remains a "black box." The Angular CLI is still the one managing the compilation. Because the CLI itself is not a Vite plugin, it cannot be easily plugged into other modern tools.
And that's the issue for Storybook, Vitest, but also others. They are designed to support any framework that presents itself as a Vite plugin.
AnalogJS, founded and maintained by Brandon Roberts, solves this by doing exactly that. It fully decouples Angular from the CLI's build pipeline and exposes it as a standard Vite plugin. Just activate it, and these modern tools can suddenly compile and serve Angular components out of the box without any Angular-specific configuration. It just works.
ng-conf is ending
ng-conf is ending.
ng-conf was the first Angular conference, going back to 2014 with AngularJS, and it continued through to the modern Angular era all the way through 2025. This also means that there is no US-based Angular conference anymore.
In its place, a new conference called AI Dev Craft will debut in October in Las Vegas, with a call for speakers open.
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