Difference between Angular 6 vs Angular 7 vs Angular 8

In the modern era, as there is a growing emergence of web applications and mobile applications, almost all the companies working in this field are looking for an improved and enhanced way of doing work. To achieve this motive, there is a number of frameworks available in the global market. For instance, Meteor, React, and Angular. To meet the growing needs and requirements of the customers, we must use updated frameworks, platforms, and technology.

In this article, we are going to share some of the dissimilarities between the characteristics, changes, and enhancements about Angular 6, Angular 7, and Angular 8. Before moving forward with understanding the differences between these angular, let us first understand the concept of angular.

Angular is generally referred to as a framework of JavaScript which is written in TypeScript and is developed by Google. It is known as a “Superheroic JS MVW Framework.”

FEATURES OF ANGULAR 6

The release date of angular 6 is May 4th, 2018. Following are some of the key highlights of Angular 6 which are also asked by the people very frequently in Angular 6 questions are as follows:

• Angular Command Line Interface (CLI)
• The Component Development Kit (CDK)
• Angular Material Package update
• New Transcript Version 2.7

It becomes easier to code with strict class initialization, default declarations with the help of such features.

MAJOR CHANGES MADE TO ANGULAR 6

Internationalization (i18n) feature along with runtime transcription is one of the chief changes that are presented in Angular 6. With the help of this change, there is no need for building one application per locale.

SOME OF THE PRIMARY UPDATES MADE IN ANGULAR 6 ARE:

• Decorator error messages are enhanced
• 2.7.* supports typescripts
• Platform recognition example for universal has been fixed
• Updates have been made on Ng Model Change
• Native elements got the support
• Ng model change got updated
• Add type and hooks to directive def
• Recognized view query has been added
• Transmission of ng-template In to template
• Angular v4 has now got long term support

FEATURES OF ANGULAR 7

The release date of Angular 7 in October 2018. This is one of the key questions which have been appeared in Angular 7 questions. The numerous changes and modifications with the help of which Angular 7 is build up are as follows:

• CLI Prompts
• Angular Material
• Drag
• Scrolling
• Virtual and Drop & Component Dev Kit (CDK)

Command Line Interface Prompts

There is an updation of command-line interface prompts to v7.0.2 in Angular 7. Whenever there is execution is done by a user like common commands like ng add @angular, the user will spontaneously be prompted with commands like ng add@ angular or material. This will help them to discover numerous built-inn characteristics like SCSS support and routing.

SOME OF THE PRIMARY UPDATES MADE IN ANGULAR 7 ARE:

• Angular 7 can now support TypeScript 3.1
• In Angular 7 there is an addition of new and enhanced ability which helps in recovering from deformed URLs
• Compiler- CLI: updated tsickle to 0.29 x
• Default key-value differs can now be exported to private API
• Consoles for initiating and running angular projects have now become downloadable on the local machine.

FEATURES OF ANGULAR 8

With the introduction of Angular 8 performance improvements and a cluster of the workflow have been seen. Also, numerous changes have been noticed in the framework about the tooling. Angular 8 was introduced with the following updations:

• Command Line Interface (CLI)
• Angular Material
• Angular Core Framework

SOME OF THE PRIMARY UPDATES MADE IN ANGULAR 8 ARE:

• Improvements have been made in Angular JS API Migration along with location services
• The typeScript was updated to 3.4 x
• The packages like @angular/platform- web worker and @ angular/platform- web worker- dynamic got deprecated
• Removal of @angular/ HTTP from all the packages
• Dart- sass for files like Sass files
• Backward compatibility of angular router improved

CONCLUSION

The following table summarizes the difference between angular 6 and angular 7 and angular 8

ANGULAR 6	ANGULAR 7	ANGULAR 8
Use of an angular element	Use of CLI prompts	Use of Ivy Engine
Service worker	Virtual Scrolling	Phantom Template Variable Menace
I18n i.e. Internationalization	Drag and then drop	Lazy Loading
The compiler used is Bazel Compiler	Bundle Budget	Enhancement is done in ng upgrade
TypeScript Support is 2.7	TypeScript Support is 3.1	TypeScript Support is 3.4
Updation of ng-template to template	Script used is native	Improvement in Bundling of Web Worker