Angular has a significant API surface, and sometimes the best features are the ones tucked away in the documentation 💎 What is your favorite "hidden gem" in Angular? That one utility, pipe, or CLI flag that everyone should know about but many don't? Let’s reveal the secrets 🔍

@angular I have a few - Minimal flag for new projects should be default in my oppinion ng new hello --minimal - Built in sanitization - key binding directives with combinations like this (keyup.shift.enter)="someAction($event)"

@angular CustomRouteStrategy and iterableDiffers

@angular Definitely event plugins.

@angular Hostdirective, such a nice way to add behaviour to a component and keep separation of concern

@angular My hidden gem is the one I found after 3 hours of debugging, then never used again because I forgot it existed. Classic Angular.

I like SignalStore, which I’ll be publishing as open source in a few days. It lets you work directly with plain variables like this.data.key = '', and in the template you can just use {{data.key}}. It’s optimized, lightweight, and allows you to operate on plain JSON while everything under the hood runs on signals. I also have developer tools for inspection and benchmarking 🙂

@angular Angular dependency injection with "useExisting", really cool to override/extends services