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Angular has been pre-compiled for years. The AOT compiler has been available since Angular 2, released in 2015. It has also been able to produce stand-alone nat

Angular has been pre-compiled for years. The AOT compiler has been available since Angular 2, released in 2015. It has also been able to produce stand-alone native web-components since 2018, btw. It's only recently that it started producing multiple packages simultaneously, however (to serve up a package optimized for the client's web platform).

ricardobeat 7y ago
Most modern frameworks can be AOT compiled in that sense - React, Vue, Riot - they load JS code only at runtime, but still use templates (VDOM, strings or another representation) as blueprints to update/manipulate the DOM. AFAIK Angular still uses dirty checking; Angular Ivy, yet to be released, will move to something a little closer (incremental-dom), but still not the same. What Svelte does is precompile the UI update code[1], changing text nodes, attributes, children, targeting DOM nodes directly. Think Prepack[2] vs DOM diffing. [1] https://svelte.dev/repl/hello-world?version=3.16.7 https://svelte.dev/repl/hello-world?version=3.16.7 [2] https://prepack.io/ https://prepack.io/
- paulddraper 7y ago
  > Think Prepack Angular compiler is certainly an optimizing compiler. > Angular Ivy, yet to be released Ivy became an opt-in feature of the Angular CLI earlier this year with Angular v8. > AFAIK Angular still uses dirty checking Ivy uses "dirty checking" too [1]. AFAIK Ivy and pre-Ivy operate on similar fundamental principals, which is why Ivy is a drop-in replacement. [1] https://indepth.dev/what-every-front-end-developer-should-know-about-change-detection-in-angular-and-react/ https://indepth.dev/what-every-front-end-developer-should-kn...