Angular 8 was released on May 28, 2019, worldwide. It has a lot of similarity to its previous versions, such as Angular 7, except having some extensive features.
The most distinguish features of Angular 8 are:
- Angular 8 provides differential loading for all application code.
- Dynamic imports for lazy routes
- Web workers
- It provides support for TypeScript 3.4
It provides Angular Ivy as an opt-in preview which has some other advantages:
- Generated code that is easier to read and debug at runtime
- Faster re-build time
- Improved payload size
- Improved template type checking
- Backward compatibility