OpenNG Foundation launches to host Angular libraries as spartan/ui hits 1.0

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The OpenNG Foundation has been established as a new home for popular Angular open-source libraries such as Spectator and Elf, following the unexpected removal of the ngneat organization. The foundation was announced by Gerome Grignon and also includes Dominic Bachmann among its core team. Separately, spartan/ui — a shadcn-inspired, highly customizable Angular component library — has reached its stable 1.0 release, offering over 55 production-ready components built with signals, standalone components, and SSR support. In other Angular news, Storybook's Angular integration is being modernized via AnalogJS, which exposes Angular as a standard Vite plugin to improve compatibility with modern tooling. Meanwhile, ng-conf, the longest-running Angular conference dating back to 2014, has announced it is ending, with a new AI-focused event called AI Dev Craft set to debut in Las Vegas this October.

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