Regardless of what flavor of Angular you're working with, learning to use components well is critical. In this article, Jonathan Saring offers four tips on working with Angular components.

The RFC calls for moving Angular in a direction where components, directives, and pipes play a more central role, are self-contained, and can be safely imported and used directly.

Angular provides dependency injection, which is particularly useful for assembling data services for applications, along with use of an HTML template to compose components.