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Angular Build Optimization: Budgets, Caching, and Versioning
Improve load performance with build optimization, caching rules, and safe deployment patterns.
Logan Price
August 12, 2025
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A professional deployment is not just 'ng build'. It includes:
- caching strategy
- cache busting
- performance budgets
## Cache busting (Angular already helps)
Angular outputs hashed filenames like:
`main.8f3a2c.js`
That means you can cache JS for a long time safely.
## Recommended caching strategy
- HTML: short cache (or no-cache), because it changes and points to new bundles
- JS/CSS assets: long cache because filenames are hashed
## Budgets (prevent bundle bloat)
In `angular.json`, budgets can warn if bundles get too big.
This protects performance as the app grows.
## Versioning tip
Show app version in UI (footer or about page) so QA can verify deployments quickly.
> Next: Error handling at scale, global error handler and logging.
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