Angular Without the Framework: Standalone, Signals and Functional APIs
summary
Angular 20+ is shown as a set of JS APIs rather than a monolithic framework: an app is bootstrapped from a precompiled main.js, standalone components and standalone components render inside plain index.html, reactive state uses Signals for change detection, and a single-file drop‑in widget built with createApplication and shadow DOM encapsulation runs with DI and zoneless change detection. The demo actually boots multiple Angular widgets from plain JS files, no NgModules required, and the approach trades framework ceremony for explicit composability.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:03Forgetting Angular basics
- 3:35Angular’s evolution
- 6:28Standalone and functional APIs
- 8:15Angular as JS library
- 10:03Live demo: standalone Angular
- 13:12Functional Angular widget
- 17:07Why this matters
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