thimbleberry VS Angular

reactiveTrackUse uses Reactively's onCleanup() method to register a callback when the getter is re-run. That's a perfect time to release the old buffer. And in fact, reactiveTrackUse typically will destroy() the old buffer immediately. Under the hood, reactiveTrackUse tries to be a little more clever. It uses Thimbleberry's trackUse reference counting utility which will defer calling destroy() in the case where the buffer is still in some other part of our application.

/** * https://github.com/angular/angular/blob/75a186e321cb417685b2f13e9961906fc0aed36c/packages/core/src/render3/reactivity/untracked.ts#L15 * * packages/core/src/render3/reactivity/untracked.ts * **/ export function untracked(nonReactiveReadsFn: () => T): T { const prevConsumer = setActiveConsumer(null); try { return nonReactiveReadsFn(); } finally { setActiveConsumer(prevConsumer); } }

source: https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/46542

Besides the dangers, mentioned by Angular docs (infinite loops, change detection errors), there is another thing, that might be quite nasty: effects are executed in a reactive context, and any code you call in effect, will be executed in a reactive context. If that code reads some signals, they will be added as dependencies to your effect. Here Alex Rickabaugh explains the details.

In June 2023, the Angular team raised a new RFC to implement control flow syntaxes within Angular. They gave the following rationale for introducing control flow syntax:

For scheduling, I use awesome code I found in the Angular source code.

Just to give you more context, I led the migration of several AngularJS applications to the newer Angular Framework. My client finally decided to make that move following the AngularJS deprecation announcement (stay up to date please 🙏)️.

Link — angular/CONTRIBUTING.md

Angular v17 was released some months ago with a ton of new features, a brand new logo and the new blog angular.dev.