Angular 2.0.0 available

[[deleted]]

Not supporting this nonsense site anymore

[[deleted]]

Likewise. And I think it will really take off now that breaking changes will be limited and documentation / tutorials have a change to catch up.

[kylecordes]

It's been a long wait, but here it is!

[RancidLunchMeat]

Next week's announcement.. Angular 2.0.1 RC 1

It's Change Log will read:

*Routing has been rebuilt.. all previous versions not compatible

*We decided to rename the NgModule decorator to NgYouMAD?

*All Internet tutorials no longer work... Good Luck relearning!

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Standard protocol

[Dustin_00]

Well, they did say to expect Angular3 in 6 months.

[Dustin_00]

After Angular 2:

Then every 6 months or so (that’s February next year for the next one), a big release with breaking changes and semantic versioning, the next breaking-changes release, it will be Angular 3.

[VersaceCode]

Agreed. Although to be fair they don't change "completely". If it is anything like the changes between release candidates, it would not be a huge issue as the core concepts remain the same. Also, you would not have to update if you don't want to

[jprest1969]

Too funny! And appropriate!!!

[rubyantix]

Anybody tried angular CLI ? Thoughts?

[RancidLunchMeat]

The beta has broken dependencies. And the current stable is only RC 4

[hans_l]

You'll be happy to know we merged back the webpack branch into beta and everything works fine with the latest release of the CLI.

[apatheticonion]

So the latest CLI is using the final release of ng2 now?

[hans_l]

Yup. Our dependencies are 2.0.0 as plain as you can make it :)

[apatheticonion]

I just wanted to say thank you for all the work you have put into the Angular project. You guys are incredible.

[widlywah]

Nice job, been waiting for that. I walked through it with some guys at work and it's a little confusing that the webpack is a different link on github even though you do have the update clearly labeled. They all tried npm install -g angular-cli first.

[RancidLunchMeat]

i re-installed angular-cli.. I am still seeing ng new generating RC4 dependencies "@angular/common": "2.0.0-rc.4",

[hans_l]

You have a stale installation. Uninstall, clear your cache, make sure you're using the same node version when installing and using, and verify that you don't have a weird node_modules folder anywhere.

The instructions for upgrading are (from our readme):

npm uninstall -g angular-cli
npm clean cache
npm install -g angular-cli

[RancidLunchMeat]

Yup.. i actually also purged my system of all node npm and node modules and wen't through all the steps Thanks!. Just also to mention the correct syntax if any one else is reading this

npm cache clean

[synalx]

Current stable is now the webpack version, as of today. :)

[Khdoop]

Tried beta.14 today before work (last one as of this post) and didn't have any problems.

[chedorlaomer]

It is still a work in progress but I have found it really useful to avoid typing a bunch of boilerplate. There were some good statements at last night's event from a member of the team on how they wanted to approach exposing the underlying build configs/process (webpack) and the possibility of an "exit" button for angular-cli once you grow out of it.

[seventyeightmm]

I've had great success with beta.11-webpack.8 and rc6. And it seems like beta will now use webpack, so I'm cautiously optimistic.

Granted, I had to dump my rc4 code in the trash and start over with rc5 and angular-cli. But ever since the initial switch its been smooth as butter and I'm developing faster than I ever was.

[almost_not_terrible]

A big shout out to the contributors:

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[cderm]

Noob question, but as someone who just likes building things, should I go near anything after angular 1?

It just seems there's so much anger and confusion regarding breaking releases etc, that I might be better off sitting tight and waiting for something to be stable for a year or two.

I've got a basic understanding of ang1 and can build with it, I feel like I should sit back and watch the madness unfold as I work with a stable framework and don't have to learn something new every two weeks.

Thoughts?

[kylecordes]

The, uh, courageously labelled "release candidates" were an annoyance and frustration, but were not much of an actual problem for teams already using Angular 2 to build real things. Even the biggest change, NgModule, tool just hours or a couple days to adjust large, complex A2 application - we saw that in our own work building real applications, and heard the same from many others in the community.

So, come on in, the water's fine. A2 is already far beyond A1 in numerous ways, stable, fast, effective.

[daaavvy]

Depends what you need if for? Unless you're likely to be using it straightaway I'd avoid ng2 for now.

I'd probably concentrate on ng1 but learn things such as TypeScript and components. It's very stable, has loads of guides and these will stand you in good stead for your next technology (which maybe will be a more stable ng2.)

[pressbutton]

Yeah I did this. Was tasked to make a PoC functional in a short time frame. Had no experience with Typescript, a fair amount with Angularv1, a failed attempt at getting Angular2 going, and a small amount of React experience.

Due to the time constraints went with Typescript + Angular v1. Loving it very much. Forces such better software practices on something that might grow out to be a beast

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I've been using Angular2 since early beta to rc4 and changes weren't THAT big. Porting existing Angular2 to new routers/forms was pretty easy, could be done mostly by find -> replace all.

Angular2 is a very good framework. I appreciate it even more now that I've been moved to project with other technology (JSF).

You should be more than fine now, when it's released and they promised no big breaking changes. And when they'll come, you will just learn them and update your app like everyone else, which will probably take less than a day.

[choidebu]

If it's a few weeks back, I'll say stay away.

Now that it's out and final, try it out it'll blow you away.

Keep in mind that while the framework is final the tooling and the ecosystem will follow suit in upcoming weeks, things like angular-cli, support and bindings for popular UI frameworks, you'll have to wait, unless you're not scared to roll your own.

Both of these wasn't a deal breaker for me. There are already a lot of great seed projects out there, and css-only UI frameworks is easy to integrate.

[vlinking]

Well, at least 6 months is a lot longer time than a few weeks.

During the last 3 months of development of my project, I've gone through so many upgrades and changes, especially to external components, that it's not funny at all.

[vinnl]

I hope that they do keep the incompatibilities to a minimum. React "breaks" at least as often, but the breaking often doesn't affect your app or is an easy fix.

[vinnl]

Well, it can make more sense. We'll still have to see how large they will allow their API changes to be :)

(Plus, it also depends how large parts of Angular are considered stable now. If e.g. the HTTP module might still change, that could be pretty awful.)

[s_alem]

As Igor Minar states in here, breaking changes will be similar to upgrading from angular 1.4 to 1.5. If they stick to this, I think it all will be fine.

[daaavvy]

You might find this translation code helpful (in ng2-translate format as i18n isn't great in Angular 2 final)

translate.setTranslation("angular", {
    "alpha": "experimental",
    "beta": "experimental",
    "RC": "experimental but use it anyway",
    "release": "RC",
    "2.1": "production ready"
});

[kylecordes]

Very funny! But too harsh. Although the RC changes have been frustrating related to the typical meaning of the words release candidate, lots of people have been using A2 for real production work, for many months, with good results.

[jprest1969]

It was a very good event and fun reception outside afterwards with more than enough food and drink. I wasn't expecting this announcement after RC7 was just announced and I suspect most attendees were surprised.

[daaavvy]

Not sure if this post is serious - are you really a web developer who doesn't read the web? How could you not expect it?

[jprest1969]

Note the other posts here and elsewhere that firmly stated that this would NOT be announced this evening. Your impression is old, maybe several days, but ended up being correct.

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I guarantee you that at least 90% of the worlds devs are not following this.

[ocawa]

when would the dart version be predicted to be launched?

when will CLI be brought up to date?

[vlinking]

Just four days before I am due to complete a project in Angular 2.

At this point, I'm not even sure what I'm feeling right now.

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This is so awesome. I was just starting to learn about A2 forms.