How to Migrate from angular 5 to 6

The Angular 6 was released. It is time for all of our ngx-* projects to upgrade to angular 6 and live on the edge.

This release focused on improving the toolchain. It is also important to note that along with @angular/core, @angular/common, @angular/compiler, etc., now Angular-CLI and Angular-Material + CDK were released as v6.0.0. So no more confusion with the versions across various libraries.

The all new and exciting IVY is not a part of this release. If you are expecting this after watching ngconf, it might be disappointing for you😞. But don’t worry, it is still under development and can expect it in the next version. 🤞

The full list of changelog can be found here, here and here.

One of the most important expectation from the developers who are using angular is to reduce the build time and also reduce the bytes.

ng serve output

In Angular6, it takes 6.8s (🔻) to build and 3.5MB (✅) bundle size for a basic app generated by angular-cli.