Angular 17.2 Is Out: What's New?

In this blog post, we're going to learn about all the brand-new features introduced in the latest Angular 17.2 release. We're going to be learning about the new viewChild, viewChildren, contentChild, and contentChildren signal-based alternatives to the decorators of the same name. Let's learn why these decorators make the existing lifecycle hooks AfterContentInit and AfterViewInit no longer necessary. We are also going to be covering a new model() API that will allow us to do two-way data binding with a signal-based approach.