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Fast and productive web framework provided by Dart

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ImprovedJuly 25, 2019

6.0.0-alpha+1

angular

6.0.0-alpha+1

New features

Added ComponentRef.update(). This method should be used to apply changes to a component and then trigger change detection. Before this, change detection and lifecycles would not always follow Angular's specifications when imperatively loading a component, especialy for those using the OnPush change detection strategy.
```
final componentRef = componentFactory();
componentRef.update((component) {
  component.input = newValue;
});
```
Added @changeDetectionLink to package:angular/experimental.dart.

This annotation allows a component that imperatively loads another component from a user-provided factory to adopt the OnPush change detection strategy, without dictacting the change detection strategy of the component created from the factory. This allows such a component to be used in both Default and OnPush apps.

An annotated component will serve as a link between an ancestor and an imperatively loaded descendant that both use the Default change detection strategy. This link is used to change detect the descendant anytime the ancestor is change detected, thus honoring its Default change detection contract. Without this annotation, the descendant would be skipped anytime the annotated OnPush component had not been marked to be checked.

Added an optional named parameter, maxIterations, to FakeTimeNgZoneStabilizer's constructor. If not specified 10 maximum loops are attempted to elapse pending timers. In advanced use cases, a test may configure a higher threshold:
```
NgZoneStabilizer allow100InsteadOf10() {
  return FakeTimeNgZoneStabilizer(timerZone, ngZone, maxIterations: 100);
}
```