Here’s why you should be excited about Ivy!
An overview of the features Ivy brings us today, and a look at possible features Ivy enables in future versions of Angular.
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13 min readFeb 4, 2020
Recently, during coffee, I had a chat with a developer about Angular 9. I told him how excited I am for the upcoming release. In particular, because of Ivy.
Even though he already played around with Ivy in version 8, he couldn’t understand my excitement.
“All that hype for a bit smaller bundles!”
Well, there’s a lot more to it. Let’s explore why I am excited about Ivy and why you should be too?
Yes, we get smaller bundles
Let’s start with the feature most developers are aware of. With Ivy, we get smaller bundles. At last year’s ng-conf, the Angular team presented some statistics that show how Ivy reduces bundle size compared to the ViewEngine.
Switching to Ivy, we get smaller bundles for free! Pretty cool. But how come? Well. Because we call Ivy!
