# Features & Benefits

## Cross Platform

##### Progressive Web Apps

Use modern web platform capabilities to deliver app-like experiences. High performance, offline, and zero-step installation.

##### Native

Build native mobile apps with strategies from Ionic Framework, NativeScript, and React Native.

##### Desktop

Create desktop-installed apps across Mac, Windows, and Linux using the same Angular methods you've learned for the web plus the ability to access native OS APIs.

## Speed and Performance

##### Code Generation

Angular turns your templates into code that's highly optimized for today's JavaScript virtual machines, giving you all the benefits of hand-written code with the productivity of a framework.

##### Universal

Serve the first view of your application on node.js, .NET, PHP, and other servers for near-instant rendering in just HTML and CSS. Also paves the way for sites that optimize for SEO.

##### Code Splitting

Angular apps load quickly with the new Component Router, which delivers automatic code-splitting so users only load code required to render the view they request.

## Productivity

##### Templates

Quickly create UI views with simple and powerful template syntax.

##### Angular CLI

Command line tools: start building fast, add components and tests, then instantly deploy.

##### IDEs

Get intelligent code completion, instant errors, and other feedback in popular editors and IDEs.

## Full Development Story

##### Testing

With Karma for unit tests, you can know if you've broken things every time you save. And Protractor makes your scenario tests run faster and in a stable manner.

##### Animation

Create high-performance, complex choreographies and animation timelines with very little code through Angular's intuitive API.

##### Accessibility

Create accessible applications with ARIA-enabled components, developer guides, and built-in a11y test infrastructure.

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