HttpClient is an evolution of the existing Angular HTTP API, which exists
alongside of it in a separate package, @angular/common/http. This structure
ensures that existing codebases can slowly migrate to the new API.
The new API improves significantly on the ergonomics and features of the legacy
API. A partial list of new features includes:
* Typed, synchronous response body access, including support for JSON body types
* JSON is an assumed default and no longer needs to be explicitly parsed
* Interceptors allow middleware logic to be inserted into the pipeline
* Immutable request/response objects
* Progress events for both request upload and response download
* Post-request verification & flush based testing framework
`Object.assign` is not available in all supported browsers and one had to
provide a polyfill. This commit replaces `Object.assign` with the spread
operator (`...`), which TypeScript will transpile to ES5-compatible code.
Destructuring of the form:
function foo({a, b}: {a?, b?} = {})
breaks strictNullChecks, due to the TypeScript bug https://github.com/microsoft/typescript/issues/10078.
This change eliminates usage of destructuring in function argument lists in cases where it would leak
into the public API .d.ts.
Only one h1 is allowed per document, and this is provided by the template.
So we cannot have any h1 tags (or `#` markdown shorthand) in any API docs.
Closes#16193
WilliamKoza
jnizet
Alex Rickabaugh
Jason Aden
Victor Berchet
George Kalpakas
Alex Eagle
Jason Aden
Olivier Combe
Jesús Rodríguez
Tobias Bosch
Peter Bacon Darwin
Igor Minar
Miško Hevery
Ward Bell
Josep Sayol
Aliaksei Kuncevič
Filipe Silva