Upgrading to Angular 9: My experience

Bjorn ‘Bjeaurn’
Codestar blog
Published in
5 min readFeb 14, 2020

An Ivy climbing up a wall, with an Angular logo on top. Cheesy, I know.
Angular with Ivy.

Last week, version 9 of Angular was released. The much anticipated Ivy Renderer was now set to default. The promise of smaller bundle sizes and faster applications was just too much for me to pass over. So Monday first thing, I wanted to get my upgrade going.

The following story shares my experiences in upgrading a sizable application with some complexity, giving a good indication of the types of…

Bjorn ‘Bjeaurn’
Codestar blog

Sr. Frontend Engineer at Codestar, Entrepreneur. Interested in innovation and everything tech. Angular, RxJS, TypeScript. Gaming enthusiast. I tweet.