● Themeable and Internationalizable. ● Tuned for performance. Angular Tooling ● Ahead of Time (AOT) Compiler ● Angular Universal ● Command Line Interface (Angular CLI) ● Augury (Chrome Dev Tool) Integration ● Protractor and Karma for testing. App Size No one likes a large application size Angular AOT ● Ahead-of-time compilation: Runs once at build time. ● Eliminates the need to package the Angular components, services, pipes, routes, etc. ● ng serve --open ○ hot reload support ● ng build --pod ○ AOT Future: Smaller, Faster, Easier to Use Why build mobile apps with Angular ● Code and skill reuse