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Conflicting styles with multiple Angular apps in the same page

About two years ago I was gradually converting an old web app to modern Angular. At some point the app was in a state were the Angular components were embedded as multiple apps at different locations in the page. Very soon I found that one app got the css styling rules from the other, and that the APP_ID that was supposed to be present in the generated html/css (according to the docs: https://angular.io/guide/component-styles#inspecting-generated-css) was not there.

I made a fix for this, and a pull request to Angular and am very happy now see that my fix for this is finally included here

So now you should also be able to use Angular for creating multiple standalone widgets, adverts in any web page that is not made in Angular. That could be news sites, blogs, portals or anything.

Angular just got new significant areas of use

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