Angular is an opinionated framework. But is it really?

Yes, when it comes to choosing Form or Router - it has it all. Even the fantastic CLI!

But what about the State? Managing and synchronizing it is one of the most complex tasks that developers have to solve, and it's not a straight-forward one - it frequently bites us as we develop our applications.

"What is the state?", "Types of it?" and "How to work with it?" is not taught much and when Angular developers start working on the real-world applications, there are mostly on their own.

As the Angular community was trying out different approaches, two major patterns evolved - stateful push-based Services and global state management libraries (@ngrx/store, Akita, NGXS and many smaller ones) - with supporters and opponents on both sides. There was almost nothing in between.

In this talk I'd like to start with the state types (to bring us all on the same page), then peak into push-based Services, and finally go over @ngrx/store and @ngrx/component-store - the…