Ng-News 26/12: Future of Selectorless, Skills vs. MCP, Zoneless Testing

Ng-News 26/12 covers the Angular Q&A on selectorless and Skills versus MCP, then zoneless testing and auto tick from the Angular Plus Show. Angular Q&A: selectorless and Skills vs MCP The monthly Q&A session featured Mark Thompson as host and Alex Rickabaugh, tech lead of the Angular framework. Alex explained why selectorless got downgraded. Selectorless was a planned feature that would have allowed referring to components in a template by using their class name. In the latest roadmap update, that feature was removed. According to Alex, selectorless would have been a huge jump. The risk of an AI agent not being able to write modern Angular code was not worth the DX benefits from selectorless. Therefore, that feature is on hold and will be re-evaluated in the future. Timestamp: 0:05:50 Skills and MCPs: According to Alex, Skills are starting to replace MCP tools, because a Skill can tell the agent about certain CLI commands, which can replace a dedicated MCP tool call. Timestamp: 23:11 Z