ng-conf revealed what’s next for Angular — @angular/aria, Signal Forms, and early AI integration. Also: performance and testing updates from the community.
🎤 ng-conf Keynote & Angular Future Directions
ng-conf happened in Maryland 🇺🇸, and the recording of the keynote was streamed live and is publicly available.
Mark Thompson and Minko Gechev from the Angular team did the keynote.
Mark announced that he follows Minko as DevRel Lead.
As already mentioned in a former episode, Minko became tech lead across frameworks at Google.
Mark explained that the upcoming @angular/aria wants to be a headless "Angular Material" or "Angular CDK".
It provides all accessibility features as directives but without the actual styling, which is then completely up to us.
He also showcased Signal Forms, and some gimmicks that might have gone under the radar.
AI and the Angular MCP server were, of course, also a topic.
Minko continued by sharing his vision of what future AI support in Angular could look like.
He mentioned that by feeding the LLM with context information from the running application, the LLM would have access to the complete injector and component tree, including the current state of the application.
That could help a lot when it comes to writing tests or getting help with bug fixing.
⚡️ Performance Series by Alejandro Cuba Ruiz
Alejandro Cuba Ruiz published a 4-part article series on performance.
His final article focuses on optimizing the bundle size.
He doesn’t just discuss basic settings in the angular.json, but also how to tweak the build in terms of browser support, how to choose third-party libraries, and how to analyze the final bundle.
At the end, he also writes about Angular DevTools and tools like CrUX or PageSpeed, which can help monitor real-world performance.
Alejandro’s article is also available in Spanish.
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🧪 Free Testing Workshop by Younes Jaaidi
If workshops are recorded, they are usually behind a paywall — but not this one.
The testing workshop that Younes Jaaidi gave at ViteConf is available for free - after registration.
It lasts about 2 hours 15 minutes and covers practical testing strategies in depth.
https://viteconf.amsterdam/program
🧮 Tim Deschryver on Signal Forms
Tim Deschryver, the author of one of the most important articles on using template-driven forms over reactive ones, has now published a new article on the upcoming, experimental Signal Forms.
He was already using the latest version, where the control directive was renamed to field.
Tim walks through the common features such as validation, submitting, and nested groups, and shares his personal thoughts in the end.
No surprise that he’s now also favoring Signal Forms over template-driven ones.
Tim DeschryverRefactoring a form to a Signal Form
I jotted down some notes of my experiences and thoughts while refactoring an existing Angular form to use the new Signal Forms (experimental feature).
timdeschryver.dev
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