Angular 16 RC2. The Revolution Is Near!

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Angular team is pushing forward to reach the final Angular 16 release with Angular 16 second release candidate.

Angular is not a YOLO framework. Releases are made according to a strict schedule. We know for sure that Angular 16 will be released in the first week of May 2023.

Following a six month major release frequency with a year long support after six month in active state.

Angular 16 will be special for many reasons. Some even call it Angular 3. Assuming Angular.js was the first version, Angular 2 was the CLI version and Angular 16 being so revolutionary it can be called third version.

The hopes for the new Angular are all times high. With standalone components in Angular 14 the framework started to aim to appeal to the people who already had experience with React, Next.js, and don’t find it anymore attractive to maintain complex sets of dependencies and opaque configurations (and don’t want to try Vite).

To achieve competive advantage Angular doesn’t have to do much. It has already a state-of-art Typescript support and a great out-of-the-box experience meaning you don’t have to spend your afternoon figuring out how to make an IDE display missing modules.