Angular 8: How to update and features

Introduction to Angular 8:

Angular helps to develop modern applications for web, mobile, or desktop. Currently, Angular 8 is the latest version. The latest version of angular much faster, lighter, and easier. Updating with the latest version is very important. Updating from angular 7 to angular 8 is very easy.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to update your angular project to the latest version.

Angular 8 uses:

Typescript 3.4
Node 10 or later
Features:

Angular Ivy: Ivy is the angular’s next-generation compilation and rendering pipeline. From angular 8, we can choose to opt-in for using angular ivy, use preview of angular ivy, use @angular/core@next. Update your angular application to 8.1.x rather 8.0.x
Differential Loading: In differential loading process the browser chooses between modern or legacy JavaScript based on its own capabilities. When the application gets loaded, it will automatically load the bundle it needs.
Update Steps:
Step 1: Update Angular CLI

Update your angular CLI by the following command:

npm install -g @angular/cli@latest

Step 2: Update to Angular 8
Update core framework and CLI by the following command:

ng update @angular/cli @angular/core

Step 3: Update Angular-material (Optional):

If you are using angular-material in your application. Then update it to the latest version by the following command:

ng update @angular/material

Step 4: Making changes in your code:
If you use ViewChild and ContentChild, the angular team updated these to resolve these queries and to give more control to developers. ng update command will update your queries automatically. But if any problem occurs, you have to manually make changes in your code.

Ex. @ContentChild(‘foo’, {static: false}) foo !: ElementRef;