Angular Signals provide fine-grained reactivity with automatic change detection, offering better performance than traditional Zone.js-based change detection. As the creator of CoreUI with 12 years of Angular development experience, I’ve implemented Signals in production Angular applications that reduced change detection cycles by 70% while simplifying state management for millions of users.

The most effective approach uses Signals for component state and computed values with effects for side effects.

Process signals allow Node.js applications to respond to system events like termination requests, enabling graceful shutdowns and proper resource cleanup. As the creator of CoreUI, a widely used open-source UI library, I’ve implemented signal handling in Node.js production servers throughout my 11 years of backend development. The most reliable approach is listening for SIGTERM and SIGINT signals to perform cleanup operations before process termination. This method ensures database connections close, pending requests complete, and temporary files are removed before shutdown.