Thursday, December 28, 2017

Angular Update Guide:

Earlier today when I wanted to retest my vadacl library against the latest version of Angular (5.1.2), I skimmed through the Angular blog post regarding the 5.0 release, and at the bottom of the post was a mention of a new upgrade tool:  the Angular Update Guide.



The guide is a Firebase-backed Angular web application styled with Angular Material.  You enter the Angular version you're currently running, the version you want to upgrade to, answer some general questions and press the button.  What you get is a set of brief (at least in my case) instructions for how to perform the upgrade, and what kind of changes you may need to make to your code before and after the update.

I'm glad the Angular team made this tool.  Updating the semver version of the Angular packages in the package.json file is usually simple:  it's knowing what the versions of other dependencies like rxjs or TypeScript need to be in order to make it work that's trickier.  And this takes care of that.

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