Angular versions history

Angular versions history

History of Angular JS (June 14th, 2012)

AngularJS first appeared on GitHub with version 0.9.0 in October of 2010. Version 1.0 launched on June 14th, 2012.

Angular 1 which was also referred as AngularJS is a JavaScript open-source framework. It was designed especially for single-page web apps which is fully owned by Google.

History of Angular 2 (September 14, 2016)

Angular 2 moved to Beta in December 2015, and the first release candidate was published in May 2016. The final version was released on September 14, 2016.

Angular 2 is a fully built and completed rework version from Angular 1. It is compatible with mobile devices. Moreover, Angular 2 gives you an option to choose more languages where you can choose your language like ES5, ES6, or TypeScript to write the codes of Angular 2.

History of Angular 4 (March 23, 2017)

On 13 December 2016 Angular 4 was announced, skipping 3 to avoid a confusion due to the misalignment of the router package's version which was already distributed as v3.3.0. The final version was released on March 23, 2017. Angular 4 is backward compatible with Angular 2.

As discussed earlier, Angular 3 was not released by the Angular team. Angular 4 was released on March 6, 2017, which is compatible with most of the applications. However, there is not any major changes in Angular 4 from Angular 2, and it offers better bug fixed, and alerts compare to Angular 2.

History of Angular 5 (November 1, 2017)

Web platforms such as Google Adwords, Google Fiber, Adsense, and Winc use Angular to build their user interfaces. Angular 5 was announced to the world on November 1, 2017. The previous Angular version was 4.4.0. This release focused on making Angular smaller and faster to use.

In this Angular version, there are some biggest changes has also been made compared to previous Angular. In this version, there is a Build Optimizer that created with the Angular CLI by which allows you to apply build optimizer by default. Besides this, there is an Angular Universal State Transfer also given that supports API and DOM.

History of Angular 6 (May 4th, 2018)

Angular 6 was released on May 4th, 2018. That is 6 months after its predecessor's (Angular 5) release. The highlights of Angular 6 include the Angular Command Line Interface (CLI), The Component Development KIT (CDK) and the Angular Material package update.

History of Angular 7 (18th October 2018)

The new Angular 7 features mainly include the Angular Material & CDK, performance improvements and the CLI prompts.

History of Angular 8 (May 28, 2019)

Version 8. Angular 8 was released on May 28, 2019. Featuring Differential loading for all application code, Dynamic imports for lazy routes, Web workers, Typescript 3.4 support, and Angular Ivy as an opt-in preview.