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kubi
kubi

Reputation: 967

Angular v2.0.0 vs v5.1.2

Does Angular 2 differ a lot, in terms of syntax, from angular 5?

I'm asking because I got on Christmas pretty new book (published at the end of November) about Angular 2 and when I wanted to install required packages via npm, it automatically installed version 5.1.2 of angular, when the book is basing on version 2.0.0.

I wonder if I will be able to normally carry out the examples from the book, or maybe should I downgrade to version 2.0.0?

Actually I don't know if it's a topic for this forum, but I would be very if anybody could answer me.

{
  "name": "angular-template",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "Template for angular app",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
  "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
},
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "dependencies": {
    "@angular/common": "^5.1.2",
    "@angular/compiler": "^5.1.2",
    "@angular/core": "^5.1.2",
    "@angular/forms": "^5.1.2",
    "@angular/http": "^5.1.2",
    "@angular/platform-browser": "^5.1.2",
    "@angular/platform-browser-dynamic": "^5.1.2",
    "@angular/router": "^5.1.2",

    "core-js": "^2.5.3",
    "systemjs": "^0.20.19",
    "rxjs": "^5.5.6",
    "zone.js": "^0.8.18",

    "bootstrap": "^3.3.7",
    "jquery": "^3.2.1"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "typescript": "^2.6.2",
    "live-server": "^1.2.0"
  }
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 239

Answers (1)

HDJEMAI
HDJEMAI

Reputation: 9800

Angular team keep enhancing angular more and more. its started with angular 2.0.0 and today the latest stable release is 7.0.0 (2018-10-18).

So if you want to know each change that is added after each version, you can look at this change log file link:

https://github.com/angular/angular/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

This way you can for example know what is removed and what feature is added in each version.

You can keep use your book, its probably a good source to learn with, but you can search in that change log file for example to see if a feature is removed or not and use the new one.

So angular 5 (5.1.2 here) is better than angular 2 because it has added many new features and many fixes that angular 2 or 4. and still under development to bring better API and bug fixes and optimizations every new release.

Upvotes: 2

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