HttpClient is an evolution of the existing Angular HTTP API, which exists
alongside of it in a separate package, @angular/common/http. This structure
ensures that existing codebases can slowly migrate to the new API.
The new API improves significantly on the ergonomics and features of the legacy
API. A partial list of new features includes:
* Typed, synchronous response body access, including support for JSON body types
* JSON is an assumed default and no longer needs to be explicitly parsed
* Interceptors allow middleware logic to be inserted into the pipeline
* Immutable request/response objects
* Progress events for both request upload and response download
* Post-request verification & flush based testing framework
This is so that server side rendering does not throw an exception when it encounters animations on the server side and does not need the user to explicitly setup NoopAnimationsModule in their app server module.
Fixes#15098, #14784.
PR Close#15131
Alex Rickabaugh
Miško Hevery
Vikram Subramanian
Jason Aden