Angular 19, a deliberate replace to the favored TypeScript-based internet framework, is about to make standalone: true the default for parts, directives, and pipes. This modification, introduced in an Angular weblog submit on September 3, eclipses the usage of NgModules. With the brand new default, builders not must sort the standalone: true flag.

The announcement notes {that a} developer preview of the standalone characteristic was launched with Angular 14 in June 2022. This made it potential to construct purposes that didn’t depend on NgModules, mechanism for organizing code in a modular construction. Standalone has since been stabilized and is now the advisable technique to write Angular code. The Angular CLI generates parts with standalone: true by default. Angular documentation additionally now teaches “standalone first” to new Angular builders.

Standalone makes Angular simpler to study and begin utilizing, and adoption has been sturdy throughout the Angular ecosystem, the submit stated.  It additionally permits new options. The directive composition API, for instance, helps a greater composition mannequin for element conduct by permitting standalone directives to be utilized within the declaration of a bunch element or directive. The deferrable views characteristic lazy-loads standalone parts and directives on the template stage to optimize Angular purposes.