// tech
Mar 18, 2026
Migrating a Large Angular App to Signals + Zoneless
Zone.js made change detection automatic but opaque. Here's how to move a large app to signals and zoneless change detection without a rewrite.
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Full prerender beats live SSR for most content-driven Angular sites — cheaper to host, faster to serve, and it sidesteps an entire class of hydration bugs.
Zone.js made change detection automatic but opaque. Here's how to move a large app to signals and zoneless change detection without a rewrite.
Webpack Module Federation got Angular teams into micro-frontends early — but Native Federation, built on native ESM and import maps, is the better fit for an esbuild-based Angular app.
AngularJS to Angular 22 is a longer stretch than it sounds. A few things held up the whole way through — and a few opinions I've had to drop.