Chapter 10. Performance and Advanced Concepts

This chapter will cover the following recipes:

Understanding and properly utilizing enableProdMode with pure and impure pipes
Working with zones outside Angular
Listening for NgZone events
Execution outside the Angular zone
Configuring components to use explicit change detection with OnPush
Configuring ViewEncapsulation for maximum efficiency
Configuring the Angular 2 Renderer Service to use web workers
Configuring applications to use ahead-of-time compilation
Configuring an application to use lazy loading

Introduction

Angular 2 was a total rebuild for a number of reasons, but one of the biggest ones was certainly efficiency. The framework that emerged from the ashes is a sleek and elegant one, but not without its complexities.

This chapter serves to explore some of the new features that it builds upon and how to most effectively employ them to streamline your application.

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