NgUpgrade - Latest Developments with Angular Core Team Member George Kalpakas

Constant innovation in the Angular team has recently brought us ngUpgrade. ngUpgrade works by enabling upgrades (making AngularJS components available in Angular) and downgrades (making Angular components available in AngularJS) between components. The goal and vision of the ngUpgrade project is to make it easier for developers working with large AngularJS applications to upgrade to the latest version of Angular. To use ngUpgrade, developers simply need to add upgrade to their projects and bootstrap both frameworks using a sequence of operations.

George Kalpakas, a member of the Angular core team and core contributor to the ngUpgrade project, speaks with us about the project and the plans the Angular team has in store for developers.

There have been a significant amount of improvements to the ngUpgrade project as of late. Recently, ngUpgrade was re-written to incorporate AOT compilation. Another recent addition was improving the interoperability of things like ngModel and control access monitor in order to make it easier to use components and interpolate between Angular and AngularJS.

The path to creating ngUpgrade has not been an easy one. Some of the challenges the team has faced through this process was getting both frameworks to be aware of each other. Current challenges the team is working on is the debugging story for ngUpgrade and solving challenges around users not configuring ngUpgrade correctly and running into errors.

Looking forward, the ngUpgrade team is working on docs and other resources to help people get started using ngUpgrade. Additional plans include improving the performance of ngUpgrade apps and providing more tooling and more boiler plates for various use cases.

If users have questions or feedback through the upgrade process, you can reach George through the ngUpgrade GitHub project where the Angular team is always looking to hear more from their users.

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This somehow didn't inspire me with confidence about ngUpgrade. We're on the cusp of Angular 5, but it sounds like a lot is still being worked on wrt the upgrade path from AngularJS.