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As explained in the announcement, back in 2013 when Protractor was created, WebDriver was not a standard, and end-to-end (e2e) tests were hard to write, and a nightmare to maintain. Protractor brought an innovative solution by wrapping selenium-webdriver, and provided a way to control the execution flow.
At this point, library authors can still rely on View Engine thanks to ngcc (the compatibility compiler of Angular), but it's really time for them to evaluate whether they can migrate their libraries to Ivy or not. A few weeks ago, Minko Gechev has published an article to explain that in detail. Also, check out the related RFC.
Improvements for uncalled function checks: TypeScript can now detect more cases where functions aren't being called. For instance when writing foo instead of foo(). More details and examples can be found here.
If you haven't looked at Webpack 5, you're going to be amazed. Webpack 5 was released back in October 2020, so it's quite stable by now. Webpack is currently at version 5.37 (released a few days ago).
Of course, a lot of things have evolved since then. We now have the WebDriver API, async and await (even top-level await, woah). Also, the ecosystem has also evolved. Solutions like Cypress, Playwright, Puppeteer have gained a lot of (well-deserved) popularity. Tools like Cypress for example provide a much better developer experience than Protractor, leverage the modern standards, and even support cross-browser testing (among other powerful capabilities). Another benefit of the current de-facto e2e testing tools is that they're framework-agnostic, which is very valuable.
As of Angular 12, Protractor won't be included by default in new projects. Instead, the Angular CLI will provide options to use other solutions like Cypress, WebdriverIO, or TestCafe. This means that the ng e2e command should continue to be supported in the future.
As of Angular 12, Protractor won't be included by default in new projects. Instead, the Angular CLI will provide options to use other solutions like Cypress, WebdriverIO, or TestCafe. This means that the ng e2e command should continue to be supported in the future.
Tailwind is now officially supported by Angular. Actually, support was introduced in the Angular CLI in v11.2.
Of course, a lot of things have evolved since then. We now have the WebDriver API, async and await (even top-level await, woah). Also, the ecosystem has also evolved. Solutions like Cypress, Playwright, Puppeteer have gained a lot of (well-deserved) popularity. Tools like Cypress for example provide a much better developer experience than Protractor, leverage the modern standards, and even support cross-browser testing (among other powerful capabilities). Another benefit of the current de-facto e2e testing tools is that they're framework-agnostic, which is very valuable.
Of course, a lot of things have evolved since then. We now have the WebDriver API, async and await (even top-level await, woah). Also, the ecosystem has also evolved. Solutions like Cypress, Playwright, Puppeteer have gained a lot of (well-deserved) popularity. Tools like Cypress for example provide a much better developer experience than Protractor, leverage the modern standards, and even support cross-browser testing (among other powerful capabilities). Another benefit of the current de-facto e2e testing tools is that they're framework-agnostic, which is very valuable.
Anyways; give Cypress a try if you haven't already, you won't be disappointed! By the way, I keep recommending everyone to start using Nrwl NX, a wonderful solution that includes support for Angular, React, Next.js, Cypress, and a lot more ;-)
You can find more information about these changes in the new theming guide: https://github.com/angular/components/blob/master/guides/theming.md. In addition, note that the guides on https://material.angular.io have been rewritten to showcase the new API, and include explanations.