When was Angular 8 released, and how was it different from Angular 7?

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