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Bk Razor
Bk Razor

Reputation: 1532

Why was Angular 3 skipped, and what are the major differences in Angular 4 beta

I just noticed that the Angular 4 beta was released, but cannot find much info on it. I'm making an app in Angular 2 right now and am kind of scared that Angular 4 is what I should be using.

What are the differences? Why did the team skip Angular 3, or have I just been living under a rock?

Upvotes: 33

Views: 20810

Answers (3)

jesusverma
jesusverma

Reputation: 1745

  • Angular is being developed in a MonoRepo it means a single repo for everything. @angular/core, @angular/compiler, @angular/router etc are in the same repo and may have their own versions.
  • The advantage of MonoRepo is, you don’t have to deal with the versioning of the code dependencies. enter image description here
  • Now the problem is with the @angular/router which is already in a 3.X version. And that’s because of some active and huge developments on the router section, like route-preload.
  • Now releasing Angular as version 3, with its router on version 4 will create confusion
  • To avoid this confusion they decided to skip the version 3 and release with version 4.0.0, so that every major dependency in the MonoRepo are on the right track.

Upvotes: 43

Knu
Knu

Reputation: 15134

Due to this misalignment of the router package’s version, the team decided to go straight for Angular v4.

Upvotes: 8

Robert Sandu
Robert Sandu

Reputation: 673

Because they wanted to sync the angular version with the angular router version. Angular will have a new version release every six months but Angular 4 will be backwards compatible with Angular 2/ https://www.gurustop.net/newsletter/19

Upvotes: 10

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