After Chapter 1, Typescript Best Practices, we can dive into Angular itself. One of the focuses of Angular was to drastically improve the performance and loading time of Angular applications compared to AngularJS. The performance improvements are outstanding. According to the Angular team and various benchmarks, Angular 2 is between five and eight times faster than Angular 1.
Now, to achieve this kind of improvement, Google engineers did not build upon AngularJS; instead, they created Angular from scratch. Consequently, having worked with Angular 1 for some time, this will not give you a sizable edge over newcomers to the Angular world when it comes to developing Angular applications.
In this chapter, we will do the following:
- I will first present the major architectural concepts behind Angular.
- Then, we will bootstrap an Angular application using the newly...