Angular London Meetup

Welcome to our first event of 2026! Starting strong with two great talks from two amazing people Manfred Steyer and Rainer Hahnekamp!

We have a free CityJS London conference ticket to give away to a lucky in-person attendee!

As usual there will be food, drinks and swag thanks to Revolution Technology and Angular.Love :D See you all soon!

AGENDA
• 5:30 pm Networking/Food
• 6:30 pm 360° Signals in Angular: Signal Forms, SignalStore, Resource API & Mutations | Manfred Steyer
• 7:30 pm Vitest Highlights: The New Era of Angular Testing | Rainer Hahnekamp

360° Signals in Angular: Signal Forms, SignalStore, Resource API & Mutations | Manfred Steyer
With Signals and the Resource API, Angular takes a significant step toward fully reactive application design. But what does this actually mean for day-to-day development and the architecture of modern Angular applications?
This session provides a detailed answer. We model reactive data flows across the entire Angular stack and enhance an application step by step with Signal Forms, the NgRx SignalStore, the Resource API, and Mutations. A central focus is on how these tools interact—because their true value emerges only in combination.
By the end, you will know how to structure Angular applications in a signal-driven world—clear, traceable, and without unnecessary boilerplate.

Vitest Highlights: The New Era of Angular Testing | Rainer Hahnekamp
Vitest is finally supported out-of-the-box by the Angular CLI. But simply switching the test runner is just the beginning.
In this talk, we dive into the specific highlights that make the switch irresistible:

• Full Browser Mode: Real rendering with built-in "auto-waiting." Say goodbye to manual detectChanges() or whenStable().
• Better Asynchrony: Using modern tools like expect.poll and standard fake timers instead of the legacy waitForAsync() and fakeAsync().

Going All-In: While the CLI provides the foundation, we will look at Analog.js—the option that truly unlocks the full feature set.

More about our speakers:

Manfred Steyer
Trainer, consultant, and programming architect with a focus on Angular, Google Developer Expert (GDE) who writes for O'Reilly, the German Java Magazine, and windows.developer. Regularly speaks at conferences.

Rainer Hahnekamp
Rainer is a Google Developer Expert and a trusted collaborator on the NgRx team. He works as a trainer and consultant within the Angular Architects expert network, specializing in Angular and Spring. Rainer regularly provides in-depth training sessions and offers a weekly overview of key events in the Angular ecosystem on YouTube through ng-news.

Many thanks to our sponsors tonight, Metro Bank for hosting us and Revolution Technology for the food and drinks and Angular.Love/House of Angular for the swag :D

Revolution Technology are a Tech Recruitment Agency who specialise in Software Engineering, Data, Infrastructure and Testing. For the past 10 years they have partnered with some of the most exciting start ups, scale ups and enterprises globally, helping them build high performing and diverse tech teams.

Event will be streamed online, link will be available on the day! Looking forward to meeting you all!