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Accelerating Angular Development with Ivy

You're reading from   Accelerating Angular Development with Ivy A practical guide to building faster and more testable Angular apps with the new Ivy engine

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800205215
Length 242 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Lars Gyrup Brink Nielsen Lars Gyrup Brink Nielsen
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Jacob Andresen Jacob Andresen
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Preface 1. Chapter 1: Discovering New APIs and Language Syntax 2. Chapter 2: Boosting Developer Productivity Through Tooling, Configuration, and Convenience FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Introducing CSS Custom Properties and New Provider Scopes 4. Chapter 4: Exploring Angular Components Features 5. Chapter 5: Using CSS Custom Properties 6. Chapter 6: Using Angular Components 7. Chapter 7: Component Harnesses 8. Chapter 8: Additional Provider Scopes 9. Chapter 9: Debugging with the New Ivy Runtime APIs 10. Chapter 10: Using the Angular Compatibility Compiler 11. Chapter 11: Migrating Your Angular Application from View Engine to Ivy 12. Chapter 12: Embracing Ahead-of-Time Compilation 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using the ahead-of-time compiler for all development phases

In previous generations of Angular, the ahead-of-time compiler was significantly slower than the just-in-time Angular compiler. Because of this and other factors, just-in-time was the default compiler in all or several phases of development depending on the Angular version. This in turn led to issues because errors were only discovered when doing a production build or—even worse—in the production environment at runtime.

Angular Ivy uses its ahead-of-time compiler by default in all development phases, including while running the development server, when running tests, for server-side rendering, and in the browser, instead of bundling and running the just-in-time compiler at runtime.

This section discusses how the ahead-of-time Angular compiler affects these phases of our development workflow.

Ahead-of-time compilation for builds

Besides improved compilation speed in Angular Ivy, another key to using...

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