How Migrating to Angular 5 Impacts Performance

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3 min readMar 15, 2019

The trend of Angular has dramatically increased from the previous year. Angular is an eminent open source front end web as well as mobile application framework developed by Google. It progresses as AngularJS in JavaScript and is based on Angular Model View Controller as the architectural prototype.

There were two major and popular releases named as Angular 4 & Angular 5 some time back. The latest versions of Angular 2 to 5 are based on Typescript and Model View View Model (MVVM).

Introduction to Angular 5

Angular 5 was introduced in 2009 and it was one of the most effective JavaScript structures that are used to create dynamic web apps. It is an advanced version of Angular version of Angular Framework that supports Typescript-a syntactical superset of JavaScript. It works with various platforms across many media like desktop, web and mobile applications in various types.

There are many companies like Noble, US bank, Google and Microsoft use Angular platform for web development. It was developed to expand the horizons of web development to have a general framework, particularly for dynamic web pages.

Let us have a look on advanced features that used to increase performance

Build Optimization & Forms Validation

Angular5 is available with build optimizer that helps to eliminate the need for unnecessary code and make application lighter and faster. Now a day’s all the AngularJS Development company use the build optimizer feature by default. It will help to remove the decorators from runtime codes as well as minimize the bundle size. You can build forms using functionality and syntax that improves your User Interface performance.

Angular Universal API & DOM Support

It is one of the best features that help to perform server-side rendering of Angular applications. This makes Google developers to share state or code among client and server-side versions. There are two modules that are added to angular universal named as Browser Transfer Module and Server Transfer State Module.

With the help of these modules, it is very easy to generate information as part of the rendering between platform servers and transfer it to the client. This, in turn, will help to remove the requirement of making an HTTP request for the second time.

New Http Client

It was earlier introduced in Angular 4 but now in Angular 5, this feature is developed with advanced features. In this feature, you can easily censure the existing library by substituting HttpModule with HttpClient Module in every unit. You can utilize the latest feature like JSON body type support, progress events, and interceptors. Interceptors help to insert middleware logic into a pipeline. JSON body types consent to typed, synchronous body access.

Incremental Compilation

Angular 5 has improved compiler that is used to support incremental builds. It is very fast in speed and helps to convert Angular Typescript into JavaScript before it gets to download and run by the browser. If you need to run Ahead of Time, just use ng serve command and aot flag together. The recent compiler helps you to ensure applications run fast and lighter with minor asynchronous requests and early template recognition.

Key Takeaways

If you want to speed up your development process as well as increase your conversion rate, then we would recommend you to use Angular 5. You can advance existing AngularJS apps at your own swiftness and with no delaying further development of the application for the interval of the upgrade process.

Moreover, you can easily configure your navigated URL with the help of improved service workers. You can develop your own strategy with the time frame, migrate and order of approach. Angular 5 is full with some amazing features with its central part like dependency injections.

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