🔩 Angular 19 Shifts to Standalone Components by Default — A Major Simplification

Tom Smykowski
2 min readSep 13, 2024

Angular 19 is set to revolutionize development with standalone components becoming the default choice. This shift addresses Angular’s notorious boilerplate, making it easier to build applications with less code.

Angular is known for it’s versatility and ability to maintain complex applications while not running into problems. But also for years it was considered also the most boilerplate framework.

This article was brought to you thanks to 18 thousand followers on Medium

It means that you had to write a lot of code just to generate a simple application. Something no one wants and something that gave a competitive advantage to React, Vue and Ember.

However, it starts slowly to change. For several releases we could use the benefits of Standalone Components. But still we can choose between module components and usage of NgModules.

If you like the article follow me and subscribe for more!

But it starts to shift. With Angular 19 release, that is upcoming, we’ll have standalone turned on by default. It means that new developers or developers at al…

--

--

Tom Smykowski
Tom Smykowski

Written by Tom Smykowski

Software Engineer & Tech Editor. Top 2% on StackOverflow, 3mil views on Quora. Won Shattered Pixel Dungeon.

Responses (1)