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🔥The New Star on the Resource Team: HttpResource — Angular 19.2!
Exploring HttpResource Power!
Hi there 👋
In 2023, Angular team introduced signals in Angular 16 as a developer preview feature. This was the starting point for moving toward a more reactive framework using signals.
Today with the release of Angular 19, the Angular team is taking another significant step by introducing a new concept called “resources”. The goal is to handle async operations, such as data fetching, in a way that integrates smoothly with the synchronous signal system in an explicit way.
With the release of Angular 19.2 this week, a new resource has joined the resources team: httpResource specializes in HTTP-based data fetching reactively. Alongside existing ones resource & rxResource. I’ve already explored their use cases and capabilities in this article:
Now that we’ve set the stage, let’s explore the new httpResource() API in detail 🏊
