So now we are on Angular 4 but you might be thinking, what happened to Angular 3?
Todd Motto explains it best on his blog:
Angular 3 will not be the rewrite Angular 1.x to Angular 2 was
Please stop worrying about Angular 3
Another Angular version planned already? Whaaaat?
Didn’t Angular 2 just ship? Why Angular 3? What? Why?
First off, there is no massive rewrite, and won’t be for Angular 3. Secondly, let me explain the future of Angular 2 and what Angular 3, Angular 4 will mean for you.
Now, if you’re confused, think of it this way – in Angular 1.x we had this:
- Angular 1.0 – major version
- Angular 1.1 – major version (well, more a preview of Angular 1.2)
- Angular 1.2 – major version
- Angular 1.3 – major version (dropped IE8 support)
- Angular 1.4 – major version
- Angular 1.5 – major version
In “Angular 2”, you’re looking at this:
- Angular 2 – major version
- Angular 3 – major version
- Angular 4 – major version
- Angular 5 – major version
- Angular 6 – major version
- Angular 7 – major version