Angular 7: Changelog

This document highlights the changes for each version of ng-book. You can find this document on the web at: https://www.ng-book.com/2/p/Changelog/.

Be sure to check there to ensure that you have the latest revision.

Revision 74 - 2019-05-30

Updates the book and code to Angular 8 version angular-8.0.0.

Revision 73 - 2019-01-08

Updates the book and code to Angular 7 version angular-7.2.0.

Revision 72 - 2018-12-12

Updates the book and code to Angular 7 version angular-7.1.2.

Revision 71 - 2018-10-23

Updates the book and code to Angular 7 version angular-7.0.0.

• Chapter “First App”
  • Various bug fixes
• Chapter: “Forms”
  • Overhaul to be consistent with version 7

Revision 70 - 2018-09-13

Restores the “HTTP” Chapter

Revision 69 - 2018-09-08

Updates the book and code to Angular 6 version angular-6.0.5.

Bug Fixes

• Chapter: “First App”

  • Previous versions instructed gave the command to build as: ng build --target=production --base-href / however, the build command was changed to: ng build --prod
  • Fixed the app.component.html input fields to have the id attribute for better rendering. Thanks, P. Colagrosso!
  • Fixed some confusing language about titles. Thanks, Brother B!

• Chapter: “How Angular Works”

  • Removed a note about using selectors in a div tag, as it requires extra configuration. Thanks, VC!
  • Adds export to the early AppComponent examples because it’s easy to miss later. Thanks, Brother B!

• Chapter: “Routing”

  • Fixed some typos reported by A. Smith. Thanks, A!

Revision 68 - 2018-05-08

Updates the book and code to Angular 6 version angular-6.0.0.

Revision 67 - 2018-01-17

Updates the book and code to Angular 5 version angular-5.2.0.

Revision 66 - 2017-11-14

• “HTTP” - Updates the chapter to use HttpClient instead of Http
• “Testing” - Updates the chapter to use HttpClient, matching the “HTTP” chapter

Revision 65 - 2017-11-01

Updates the book and code to Angular 5 version angular-5.0.0.

Revision 64 - 2017-09-15

Updates the book and code to Angular 5 version angular-5.0.0-beta.6.

• “Routing” - Fixes Spotify API key issue

Revision 63 - 2017-08-02

Updates the book and code to Angular 4 version angular-4.3.2.

Revision 62 - 2017-06-23

• “How to Read This Book” - Fixed typos via Travas N.
• “First App” - Fixed typos via Travas N.
• “NativeScript” - Fixed typos via Travas N.
• “Advanced Components” - Fixed typos via Travas N.
• “Redux” - Fixed typos via Travas N.
• “Testing” - Fixed typos via Travas N.

Revision 61 - 2017-05-24

• “How to Read This Book” - Fixed typo reported by Daniel R.
• “First App” - Fixed typos reported by Daniel R.
• “TypeScript” - Fixed typo reported by Daniel R.
• “Advanced Components” - Fixed typos reported by Daniel R.
• “RxJS” - Fixed dead link to RxMarbles reported by Daniel R., fixed typos by Travas N.
• “Redux” - Fixed typos via Travas N.
• “Routing” - Fixed typos via Travas N.

Revision 60 - 2017-04-27

Updates the book and code to Angular 4 version angular-4.1.0.

Revision 59 - 2017-04-07

• “First App” - Reddit example, added ids to the input tags and other typos - Reported by Alexey A., Damien W.
• “How Angular Works” - Fixed typos reported by Richard M.
• “Built-in Components” - Fixed typos reported by Oleksij L.
• “Advanced Components” - Typos reported by Tom G. and Arshaan B.
• “HTTP” - Typos reported by Arshaan B.
• “Dependency Injection” - Fixes wrong code example reported by Emin L.
• “Redux” - Fixes old reference to OpaqueToken (now InjectionToken), Fixes typos reported by Arshaan B.
• “Routing” - Fixed URLs that pointed to localhost:8080 instead of port 4200 - Reported by Arshaan B.
• “RxJS” - Fixes a confusing hypothetical subscription reported by Arshaan B.
• “Forms” - Fixes the demo which was using the same component and typos - reported by Christopher S., Richard M.
• Fixed remaining next() -> emit() for EventEmitter
• Replaced “parenthesis” with “parentheses” when it was intended. Special thanks to Richard M. for pointing this out
• Use consistent casing for “JavaScript” everywhere - reported by Damien W.

Revision 58 - 2017-03-24

Updates the book and code to Angular 4 version angular-4.0.0.

Revision 57 - 2017-03-23

Updates the book to Angular 4 version angular-4.0.0.rc6.

• Fixes the SpyObject in the music/routing test.

Revision 56 - 2017-03-22

Updated the entire book to use Angular CLI, the new styleguide for folder layout, and pass linting.

Updated code to angular-2.4.10.

This includes updates to:

• “Forms”
• “Advanced Components”
• “HTTP”
• “Routing”
• “Testing”
• “RxJS Intro”
• “RxJS Chat”
• “Redux Intro”
• “Redux Chat” “ “NgUpgrade Conversion”

Revision 55 - 2017-03-17

• Rewrote “Dependency Injection” Chapter and updated it to use angular-cli and conform to style guide. Moved it earlier in the book.
• Updated “Built-in Directives” Chapter to use angular-cli and conform to style guide
• “Writing your First Angular Web Application”, clarified thanks to input from Zach S., Blair A., Leandro A.

Revision 54 - 2017-03-10

• Book updated to angular-2.4.9
• Changed the use of the word annotation to decorator, across the board
• “Dependency Injection” added @Injectable description and fixed typos.
• Webpack CSS fix in many chapters reported by Daniel W.
• Pointed out where Bootstrap is used: HTTP, Routing, Introduction to Redux with TypeScript, Data Architecture with Observables
• Added dot-notation example as recommended by Luis M. T. L.
• Changed link to AbstractControl
• Added link regarding two-way binding as recommended by Tom G.
• “Writing your First Angular 2 Web Application”, clarified as reported by Brother Bill, Terry W., Rob D., Robert S., and Aaron K.
• “Built-in Directives”, clarified as reported by Brother Bill
• “Forms”, typo reported by Robert S. and Andrew B.
• “HTTP”, typo reported by Brother Bill
• “Routing”, clarified as reported by Brother Bill and Daniel F.
• “TypeScript”, bug reported by Willemhein T. and Shane G.
• Changed EventEmitter’s depreciated next() to emit(), reported by Adam Beck

Revision 53 - 2017-03-01

• Added a section on deployment to the first chapter
• Updated “How Angular Works” to use @angular/cli
• Updated @angular/cli to version 1.0.0-rc.0
• Added a note about how to run the examples in “Built-in Directives”
• Updated “How to Read This Book” with a note about each project’s README.md

Revision 52 - 2017-02-22

• Added “How to Read This Book”
• Updated angular-cli to use @angular/cli package
• Clarity updates to the first chapter
• Book updated to angular-2.4.8

Revision 51 - 2017-02-14

Fixes code formatting bugs in the first chapter

Revision 50 - 2017-02-10

Book updated to angular-2.4.7

Revision 49 - 2017-01-18

Minor fixes

Revision 48 - 2017-01-13

Added chapter on building native mobile apps with NativeScript and Angular

Revision 47 - 2017-01-06

Fixes missing images in Built-in Directives

Revision 46 - 2017-01-03

Book up to date with angular-2.4.0

• Added Protractor E2E tests for every project
• “Routing”, Fixed a child route pathMatch ambiguity

Revision 45 - 2016-12-05

Book up to date with angular-2.3.0-rc.0

Revision 44 - 2016-11-17

Fixed typos in chapters:

• “Writing your First Angular 2 Web Application”, reported by Mike B., Steve A., Terry W., Alessandro C., Andrew Blair
• “TypeScript”, reported by Kevin D.
• “How Angular Works”, reported by Kevin D. and Jason T.
• “Forms”, reported by Kevin D.
• “HTTP”, reported by Kevin D.
• “Routing”, reported by Kevin D.
• “Advanced Components”, reported by Kevin D.
• “Built-in Directives”, reported by Jason T. and Farooq A.
• “Dependency Injection”, reported by Kevin D.
• “Testing”, reported by Kevin D.
• “Converting an Angular 1 App to Angular 2”, reported by Kevin D.

Revision 43 - 2016-11-08

Book up to date with angular-2.2.0-rc.0

Revision 42 - 2016-10-14

Entire book up to date with angular-2.1.0 Bonus video content and sample app completed (premium package users)

• Chapter “Built-in Components” renamed to “Built-in Directives”
• Service dependencies made private, reported by Jamie B.

Fixed typos and clarified in chapters:

• “How Angular Works”, reported by kbiesbrock
• “Converting to ng2”, reported by Dilip S.
• “Built-in Directives”, reported by Pieris C.
• “Dependency Injection”, reported by Tim P.
• “Routing”, reported by Kashyap M
• “Advanced Components”, reported by Kashyap M., by Justin B. and many by Németh T.

Revision 41 - 2016-09-28

Rewrote the first chapter to use ng-cli and the new styleguide.

• “First App” Chapter:
  • Split files into style-guide friendly templates and components
  • Fixed a bunch of typos reported by David S., and Luis H., Jan L., Aaron Spilman
• “HTTP” Chapter - fixed typos - Thanks Jim H.!

Revision 40 - 2016-09-20

Entire book up to date with angular-2.0.0 final!

Revision 39 - 2016-09-03

Entire book up to date with angular-2.0.0-rc.6

Revision 38 - 2016-08-29

Entire book up to date with angular-2.0.0-rc.5

• Entire book changes:
  • Upgraded every example to use NgModules
  • Upgraded tests to use TestBuilder

Revision 37 - 2016-08-02

New chapter: Intermediate Redux in Angular 2!

Bugfixes:

• ts-cli -> ts-node - Thanks Tim. P

Revision 36 - 2016-07-20

New chapter: Redux in TypeScript and Angular 2!

• Re-ordered chapters

Revision 35 - 2016-06-30

Book and code up to date with angular-2.0.0-rc.4

• Routing upgraded to new router
• Forms upgraded to new forms library
• Testing chapter updated to match new routing and forms

Revision 34 - 2016-06-15

Book and code up to date with angular-2.0.0-rc.2

Note: still using router-deprecated at this time.

Revision 33 - 2016-05-11

New chapter: Dependency Injection!

Revision 32 - 2016-05-06

Entire book up to date with angular-2.0.0-rc.1!

• Entire book changes:
  • Renamed all imports to match the new packages (see below)
  • Upgrade to typings (removes all tsd references)
  • Directive local variables now use let instead of #. E.g. *ngFor="#item in items" becomes *ngFor="let item in items"
  • In projects that use System.js, create an external file for configuration (instead of writing it in the index.html <script> tags
• “Testing” Chapter:
  • injectAsync has been removed. Instead you use async and inject together, both come from @angular/core/testing
• “Advanced Components” Chapter:
  • In ngBookRepeat, when creating a child view manually with createEmbeddedView, the context is passed as the second argument (instead of calling setLocal).