FIXED SCOPEone-off build
Ship an Angular app, end-to-end.
A defined product, a fixed price, a senior-only team. From RFC to launch in 8–14 weeks.
$15k–$30k
FIXED SCOPE
- Senior engineers only
- Fixed quote in week 1
- Code, infra, runbook — yours
Angular that scales past launch - and past year five.
We don't scaffold and disappear. Eleven years of Angular in production — DI architectures that hold under 30 engineers, RxJS pipelines that don't leak, lazy-loaded modules that actually stay lean. The decisions that make or break Angular at scale aren't in the docs. They're in the scars.
- Signals + OnPush
- Sub-1s FCP
- Strict templates
- Typed end-to-end
Why Entalogics for Angular
Four things every Angular
app actually needs.
Most teams hire Angular developers and end up with service spaghetti, a god-module, and change detection bugs nobody can explain. We bring the boring decisions that decide whether year four of your app still ships without a rewrite.
Performance01
OnPush everywhere. Signals where they earn it.
Angular's change detection is powerful and dangerous in equal measure. We default to OnPush on every component, migrate hot paths to Angular Signals, and enforce zone discipline from day one. Fast by construction — not by firefighting after the first performance incident.
Architecture02
Module boundaries, not a mono-folder feature dump.
Angular gives you a real dependency injection system. Most teams ignore it and end up with injected-everywhere services that nobody dares delete. We enforce standalone component boundaries, barrel-free imports, and injection tokens that make the dependency graph readable without running the app.
State03
NgRx when complexity earns it. Signals when it doesn't.
Not every app needs a store. URL state, local signals, and the Angular service layer handle 80% of real products. NgRx comes in when cross-feature coordination, audit trails, or time-travel debugging actually justify the overhead — not because someone read an article.
Type safety04
Strict templates. Typed reactive forms. End to end.
Angular is TypeScript-native by design, and most teams still ship it loose. Strict template checking, fully typed reactive forms, Zod-validated API contracts. A refactor that used to span two sprints now takes two hours — because the compiler catches what code review misses.
When Angular, when not
Angular is a tool.
Not a religion.
An honest decision matrix. We'll tell you on the first call whether Angular is the right call for your problem — or whether your budget is better spent somewhere else.
PICK ANGULAR WHEN
- You have a large cross-functional team (5–50 engineers) that needs framework-enforced guardrails, not convention-enforced ones
- The app is long-lived — three or more years of compounding feature work
- Enterprise auth, role-based access, and audit-grade logging are first-class requirements from day one
- You want strong opinions enforced by the framework itself, not negotiated in every PR
CONSIDER OTHERS WHEN
- Content-first marketing or docs at scale — Astro or Next.js are significantly leaner
- Your team already ships React or Vue well — don't break something that works
- Prototype speed matters more than architecture right now — Angular's learning curve is real and the clock is ticking
WE SAY NO WHEN
- "We want Angular because our last agency knew it." That's tribal, not technical.
- "We need a four-page brochure site." Angular is overkill — and we'll say that on the first call.
- "We want to start in two weeks and we're still writing the spec." That ship has sailed.
What we build with Angular
Six product surfaces.
One quality bar.
The shapes of Angular work we ship most often. Each slots cleanly into your existing stack if you already have one.
- S01
Enterprise portals & dashboards
Enterprise portals & dashboardsRole-aware navigation, complex permission models, data-heavy table views, real-time updates at scale. The kind of app Angular was actually designed for.
ANGULAR CDKNGRXRXJSAG-GRID - S02
SaaS admin panels
SaaS admin panelsMulti-tenant UIs, audit logs, billing integration, workflow builders. Angular's DI system makes multi-tenancy a first-class concern, not an afterthought.
ANGULARTANSTACK TABLENGRXTRPC - S03
Financial & compliance UIs
Financial & compliance UIsForm-heavy workflows, validation at every layer, audit trails baked in, WCAG-compliant from the start. Angular's typed reactive forms are built for this — nothing else comes close.
ANGULAR FORMSZODNGRXPRIMENG - S04
Internal tooling
Internal toolingReplace the spreadsheet. Replace the five spreadsheets. Replace the Notion doc three teams edit and nobody owns.
ANGULARTAILWINDPRIMENGPRISMA - S05
AngularJS → Angular migrations
AngularJS → Angular migrationsHybrid ngUpgrade bootstrapping, route by route, zero feature freeze. The current app keeps shipping while we migrate — screen by screen, under feature flags.
NGUPGRADEANGULARRXJSNGRX - S06
Design systems & component libraries
Design systems & component librariesCDK primitives, design tokens, Storybook, versioned releases, strict a11y. The shared language your Angular teams stop arguing about.
STORYBOOKANGULAR CDKTOKENS-STUDIOTAILWIND
The playbook
Patterns we
ship on repeat.
The architectural patterns that show up on almost every Angular engagement. Not invention — convention, applied carefully.
P01
Signals-first reactivity
Default to Angular Signals for local and derived state. Zone.js is on its way out — zoneless Angular is faster, simpler, and where the framework is going. We don't build on foundations the core team is deprecating.
P02
Lazy-loaded feature routes
Every feature is a lazy route. The initial bundle stays lean. The router does the heavy lifting — not the engineer remembering to code-split manually on every merge.
P03
Typed reactive forms
FormGroup with strict generics, Zod validation at the service boundary, no `any` anywhere near a form control. Forms that refactor cleanly when the spec changes — and it always does.
P04
DI boundary enforcement
Services live where they're consumed, not injected at root by default. Injection tokens over magic strings. A dependency graph readable without running the application first.
P05
NgRx, applied surgically
Component Store for isolated feature flows. Global Store only when cross-feature state with audit requirements actually justifies the ceremony. Effects and facades — applied with a scalpel, not a sledgehammer.
P06
ngUpgrade strangler-fig
Old AngularJS and new Angular share the same DOM during migration. We migrate screen by screen under feature flags. The app never goes dark. Users never notice the seams.
Signature case
A legacy enterprise portal,
migrated screen by screen..
A government-facing B2B platform on AngularJS 1.6 — 6.2s initial load, a custom framework built on top of AngularJS that only two engineers understood, zero test coverage, and a roadmap completely blocked by technical debt. We migrated to Angular 18 Signals using an ngUpgrade hybrid strategy over 14 weeks. Without a feature freeze.
Before
FCP 6.2s · bundle 1.8 MB · AngularJS 1.6 · 0 unit tests · 2 engineers who understood the codebase
After
FCP 1.1s · bundle 340 kB gz · Angular 18 Signals · 87% coverage · full team onboarded in week two
- FCP improvement−82%
- route bundle size−81%
- to fully migrated14wk
- shipped regressions0
Engagement shape
Eight to ten weeks
to a measurable ship.
A typical Angular engagement, end-to-end. We migrate screen by screen — never flag-day. The current app keeps shipping while we work.
- W01
Audit + RFC
Two senior Angular engineers in the codebase. Bundle analysis, change detection profiling, DI graph audit, form complexity inventory. You leave week one with a ranked, dollarized RFC — not a slide deck.
- W02–03
Foundation + first screen
Strict TypeScript baseline, Signal-ready architecture, OnPush enforced globally. One production screen migrated end-to-end. Real metrics in your dashboards, not a Stackblitz demo.
- W04–08
Migrate by screen, not flag-day
Screen by screen under feature flags. AngularJS and Angular live side-by-side. Kill-switch on every cutover. Your product roadmap keeps shipping — we don't ask for a freeze.
- W09+
Cleanup + handoff
Delete the old. Component library docs. Storybook. Playwright integration tests. Runbook handed to your team — or we stay on retainer and keep the compound interest flowing.
Stack
Tools we
reach for first.
Picked by problem, not by resume. Happy to slot into your stack — but green-field, this is the default.
- FrameworkAngular 18 · Angular Universal · Analog.js · Angular CDK
- LanguageTypeScript (strict) · RxJS 7 · Zod · ESLint + biome
- StylingTailwind · Angular Material · PrimeNG · vanilla-extract · CDK overlays
- StateNgRx 18 · Component Store · Angular Signals · TanStack Query
- TestingPlaywright · Vitest · Jest · Storybook · Angular Testing Library
- InfraVercel · Cloudflare Workers · AWS · Firebase · Datadog · Sentry
Engagement
Three ways
to work with us.
No hourly retainer that bills for "thinking time." Pick a lane that matches your stage; everything is fixed-quote or transparently rated.
DEDICATED TEAMmonthly
Hire dedicated Angular developers.
Embedded engineers in your Slack, your Linear, your standups. A scaled pod of senior Angular engineers, augmenting your team. Pause, resize, end with 30 days' notice.
$5k / eng / mo
PER ENGINEER
- Same senior bar as fixed-scope
- Embedded in your team
- Founder-direct escalation
ENGAGEMENTcustom
Strategic Angular partnership.
A long-term partner for product orgs that need both delivery and judgement — design system, performance program, hiring help.
custom
PROCUREMENT-FRIENDLY
- Multi-quarter roadmap
- Architecture & hiring partner
- Procurement-friendly paper
FAQ
Sharp questions,
straight answers.
Framework choices, upgrades, team shape — the questions we get on every Angular discovery call.Standalone components for everything new. The Angular team has made their position clear — NgModules are not going away but they're no longer the recommended default. Standalone components are simpler, more explicit about their dependencies, and easier to lazy-load. If you're on an existing NgModule architecture, we don't recommend rewriting it all at once — we migrate to standalone incrementally as we touch each feature.
Yes, and we've done it more than once. We use Angular's ngUpgrade hybrid bootstrapping — AngularJS and Angular run side-by-side in the same application. We migrate screen by screen under feature flags, with a kill-switch on every cutover. Your users never see a seam. Your team never stops shipping. A full AngularJS migration typically runs 10–16 weeks depending on application size and how much custom framework code is sitting on top of AngularJS.
The service layer handles more than most teams think. Injectable services with Signals cover the majority of real product state — component-level, feature-level, and cross-feature coordination included. NgRx earns its place when you need audit trails, time-travel debugging, or complex multi-step async flows coordinated across many features. We reach for NgRx Component Store before the global store, and the global store only when it genuinely justifies the ceremony.
Yes. The engineers who write the RFC are the engineers who ship the code. No handoff to a junior team mid-engagement. No account manager between you and the people doing the work. Direct access throughout.
Yes. We've worked inside Angular Material, PrimeNG, Clarity, and fully custom CDK-based systems. We adapt to your conventions — we don't ask you to throw away a working design system to fit our preferences. If your system has structural issues that will slow the engagement down, we'll flag it in the RFC. If it doesn't, we build on top of it.
Founder-direct
Tell us whatyou're building.
Thirty minutes with the founder. We'll bring a senior Angular lead, the relevant playbook, and a candid read on whether your problem is one we should take.