Angular Wishes for Santa: Our Dream Features for the Next Year 🎅✨
With just four days until Christmas, we’ve caught the holiday spirit and decided to draft our Angular wishlist for Santa! We reached out to our contributors and bloggers with a single, festive question:
“If you could ask Santa for one Angular feature this Christmas, what would it be?”
Here’s what they’re hoping to unwrap under the Angular tree next year:
🎁 Mateusz Dobrowolski (angular.love key contributor): Signal Forms
"Signal Forms would be the ultimate gift! They'd seamlessly integrate with the existing signal-based APIs, giving us a powerful, efficient approach to form management in Angular."
🎁 Luca Del Puppo (Google Developer Expert): Functional Components
"Santa, can we please have functional components? Moving away from class-based components would open up so many new possibilities for Angular development."
🎁 Fanis Prodromou (Google Developer Expert): Signal Forms
"Dear Santa, I've been good all year. Please, Signal Forms for Christmas!"
🎁 Dawid Kostka (angular.love blogger): Improved Language Service
"For me, it's all about better support in the Angular Language Service! Specifically, I'd love to see support for component host properties. Since switching to a VS Code-based IDE, I've really noticed how much this feature is missing. Oh, and Santa, while you’re at it, could you add auto-import for components? It’s already on the Angular roadmap, but I wouldn’t mind a little holiday magic to make it happen sooner!"
🎁 Miłosz Rutkowski (angular.love blogger): Expanded Signal Integration
"I’d ask Santa to integrate Signals across Angular's core features further. Their introduction has had a great impact on the entire Angular ecosystem, enhancing the developer experience and paving the way for exciting framework evolution. Expanding their use to areas like the Router or Reactive Forms would be a game-changer. Fortunately, this is already on the Angular Team's roadmap—so perhaps my wish will come true soon."
🎁 Dominik Donoch (angular.love key contributor): Signal Forms
"This would be a huge step in integrating Angular’s packages with signals. Currently, the Reactive Forms API is based on observables, which we convert to signals using RxJS interoperability functions. However, this is not an ideal solution, especially if our project is in the process of transitioning to signals. Signal-based forms would make this transition much easier and more seamless."
Now it’s your turn! 🎄
Share your Christmas wish with Santa and the community on our Twitter, LinkedIn, or Facebook. Let’s make some Angular magic happen in the new year!