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Tinaira
Tinaira

Reputation: 877

Why is Ionic 5 using Angular 8.2.14

I updated to the latest ionic cli (version 6.1.0). And when I create a new ionic project, in the package.json file it uses angular 8.2.14. Why is that so? Isn't ionic 5 using angular 9?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 260

Answers (1)

parrycima
parrycima

Reputation: 945

There are not major changes in Angular 9.

A9 is similar to A8 (as per functionality and logic). Angular 9 is in latest version and it's now stable.

I think Ionic decided to use Angular 8 because it's LTS version.

Other reaseon can be, Ionic 5 was launched some days before Angular released its version 9.

Here you can read some notes: https://angular.io/guide/releases#deprecation-practices

You can update easily your ionic project angular version to 9 (it's 100% compattible with ionic) if you want to use the latest version.

ng update @angular/core @angular/cli.

The starter apps currently ship with Angular 8 and will be updated to ship with Angular 9 by default soon. (source: Ionic Forum)

Upvotes: 3

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