For the past two and a half years, we’ve been laser focused on improving developer experience and performance for all Angular developers. In this post, I’d like to share a brief summary of the high-level process that we’ve been following to achieve this and describe our strategy for 2025. By Minko Gechev.
Angular’s 2025 strategy focuses on improving developer experience, performance, and enabling adoption of new features. The team has been tracking developers’ needs through an annual survey, which this year received over 10,000 responses. The results showed that developers are satisfied with Angular, with close to 90% reporting high satisfaction levels. The top opportunities for improvement identified in the survey include:
- Simplifying dependency management in components
- Improving forms and router integrations
- Enhancing performance
To address these needs, the team plans to invest in projects such as:
- Promoting zoneless change detection
- Developing signal-based forms
- Running an RFC for selectorless components
- Replacing Karma with a new test runner
The team also aims to improve documentation and visibility of features, making it easier for developers to adopt Angular in their existing stacks. They will continue to evolve incremental hydration, stabilize effects, and stabilize route-level render modes. Overall, the 2025 strategy aims to enhance developer experience, performance, and adoption of new features, while continuing to innovate and improve the framework. Nice one!
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