Angular Signals

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KBall & Amal interview Alex & Pavel from the Angular Signals team. They cover the history, how the Angular team decided to move to signals, what the new mental model looks like, migration path & even dive into community integrations and future roadmap.

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Featuring:

• Pavel Kozlowski – GitHub, X
• Alex Rickabaugh – GitHub, X
• Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Amal Hussein – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Angular Signals
• Zone.js
• A Solid option for building UIs
• RxJS
• Angular RFCs
• Angular Signals RFC
• Reactivity project

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Bölümler

1. It's party time, y'all (00:00:00)

2. Hello JS Party people! (00:00:56)

3. Welcoming our guests (00:01:30)

4. Getting to know Alex (00:02:31)

5. Getting to know Pavel (00:04:31)

6. The Angular Signals story (00:06:47)

7. Checking all the boxes (00:14:59)

8. Defining Signals in Angular (00:20:22)

9. Click click on dirty checking (00:22:54)

10. A mental model for Signals (00:27:07)

11. The pros & cons of adoption (00:37:27)

12. Amal's barrier to entry (00:49:23)

13. The Angular community (00:51:27)

14. The future of Signals (00:57:32)

15. NGRX <> Signals (01:01:53)

16. KBall signing out (01:03:56)

17. Next up on the pod (01:05:38)