Summary
In this chapter, we considered the main reasons behind the decisions taken by the Angular core team and the lack of backward compatibility between the last two major versions of the framework. We saw that these decisions were fueled by two things-the evolution of the Web and the evolution of the frontend development, with the lessons learned from the development of AngularJS applications.
In the first section, we learned why we need to use the latest version of the JavaScript language, why to take advantage of Web Components and Web Workers, and why it's not worth it to integrate all these powerful tools in version 1.
We observed the current direction of frontend development and the lessons learned in the last few years. We described why ...
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