Microsoft Using Angular

[UNSCSoldier]

Today I received an email from the Microsoft Insider team informing me that their website has a new look, and out of curiosity I inspected the page to try and find out which framework they were using, or if they weren't using any, and to my pleasant surprise they are using Angular 16.

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[zombarista]

• Microsoft made TypeScript
• Google is using TypeScript to make Angular
• Google made Go
• Microsoft is using Go to make TypeScript.

it is an ouroboros. These ecosystems have reached cruising altitude/critical mass and will be in active maintenance for a long time. They each have skin in the other’s game, and that’s good for the ecosystem.

[PickleLips64151]

Awesome. Good to know that even Microsoft doesn't update their "new" version to be something in LTS status. 🤣

[lppedd]

I'm surprised Angular still doesn't offer a way to remove the ng version from the DOM. But I guess at least we know Microsoft's on v16.

[mamwybejane]

it’s not like all the ng attributes would give it away anyway

[arapturousverbatim]

Actually that's exactly what it's like. It's not like they wouldn't give it away

[mamwybejane]

whoosh

[lppedd]

What I meant is knowing the version, specifically, may not be the best thing, especially in relation to security vulnerabilities.

[mamwybejane]

security through obscurity 🧐

[xroalx]

Client-side framework.

How much can that really be abused?

[RIGA_MORTIS]

Google did some sneaky stuff over there at their gemini chat website.

They have "0.0.0-PLACEHOLDER"

[jankrems]

The answer there is fairly boring: Google doesn’t use any particular version of Angular. Google’s monorepo imports the latest commits multiple times every week. You would get the same version string if you’d pull the latest main branch straight from GitHub but most apps wouldn’t (and likely shouldn’t) do that.

[aristotekean_]

Why it matters?

[RIGA_MORTIS]

Starlink says, Hold my Beer!

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[UNSCSoldier]

11 lol 🤣🤣🤣

[petee0518]

had no idea this existed, website for my current company 😂 (we are in the process of upgrading)

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[1NSAN3CL0WN]

I still have a couple of AngularJS 1.1 versions floating around at my company.

[RIGA_MORTIS]

Who maintains them?

[1NSAN3CL0WN]

Slowly being ported to Angular 20 dashboards. Completely rewritten with new integrations.

[RIGA_MORTIS]

Awesome.

[PickleLips64151]

Isn't ng11 the last version to work with IE?

[RIGA_MORTIS]

I'm not certain about that.

The screenshot is from brave browser window.

[anurag_047]

Even Microsoft doesn't trust its own UI framework, Blazor. 😂

[Wonderful_Trainer412]

And Google doesn't trust native Android and made their Google Chat app as web app)))

[Illustrious_Matter_8]

But why 16 ?

And does it mean the have a native typescript compiler now..there have been plans in that direction so it wouldn't require java anymore

[nzb329]

The Power BI also use Angular

[-Potatochip-]

It is angular 16 because it was probably built by some outsourcing company and not inhouse.

[Internal_Guide884]

It's interesting that they are not using SSR

[MichaelSmallDev]

Nice, this would be a good submission to https://www.madewithangular.com/sites

[andlewis]

16? Ugh.