Adventures In Angular

Alyssa, Chris, and Chuck dive into whether or not Angular is declining in popularity. They begin talking about a tweet by @wellpaidgeek and things like State of JS and what it says about the growth and relative popularity of Angular when compared with Vue, React, and Svelte. The discussion also weaves into whether or not it's worth starting in or finding a job in today.PanelAlyssa NicollCharles Max WoodChris Ford____________________________________________________________  "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today! ____________________________________________________________LinksThe myth Angular is in declineThe State of JavaScript 2019https://twitter.com/wellpaidgeek/status/1201916542188957703Angular, React - Google TrendsThe State of JavaScript 2019: Front End FrameworksApache WicketPicksCharles Max Wood:DevsWhoWriteWriting ExcusesNaNoWriMoWorkshops with ChuckChris Ford:Ninth House by Leigh BardugoStar Trek: Picard Follow Ad

Christian walks Charles and Younes through the 10 commandments of building Angular applications. We talk about how to arrange Angular applications, design components, and best practices. We also talk through tools, teams, and performance.Panel:Younes JaaidiCharles Max WoodGuest:Christian Lüdemann____________________________________________________________  "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today! ____________________________________________________________Links:angular/flex-layoutcypress.ioJestNxhuskyimmerAngular Architect AcceleratorThe Ten Commandments of Angular DevelopmentPicks:Younes Jaaidi:DarkCharles Max Wood:LinkedInHunterHubSpotChristian Lüdemann:Follow Christian on Twitter - @chrislydemannHow Google Works: Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberghttps://christianlydemann.com/Special Guest: Christian Lüdemann. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dale Spoonemore joins the adventure to talk about his journey from no coding experience to writing one of the most popular gardening apps on the web with Ionic. Dale explains how learning to garden sparked a journey that led him to teach himself Angular and Ionic to build the Seed to Spoon app.PanelistsAlyssa NicollCharles Max WoodYounes JaaidiDave CooperGuestDale Spoonemore____________________________________________________________ "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today! ____________________________________________________________Linkshttps://www.instagram.com/fromseedtospoon/The Depression Curehttps://www.seedtospoon.net/https://capacitor.ionicframework.com/https://getbootstrap.com/https://cordova.apache.org/Essentialismhttps://www.facebook.com/adventuresinangularhttps://twitter.com/angularpodcastPicksDave Cooper:https://github.com/scullyio/scullyAlyssa Nicoll:On Becoming Babywise: Giving Your Infant the Gift of Nighttim

In this episode of Adventures in Angular Charles Max Wood interviews Jamie Perkins, creator of Podfan. Podfan is a membership for podcasts. Charles invited Jamie on the show to talk about building Podfan with Angular. Jamie built Podfan with Angular Fire and Firebase. He highly recommends them, explaining that it is a fast and easy way to build applications. They discuss how easy it is to get started with Firebase and Jamie shares things to watch out for when getting started. Firebase pricing is discussed. Jamie explains how his Firebase plan works. Walking Charles through getting started with Firebase, Jamie explains how the different databases work and what to watch out for with security and authentication.The panel discusses the customer experience and what Jamie used for design. They discuss his process and the time he spent on the project. Jamie shares what he is working on and what he is adding to Podfan. Charles asks questions about Podfan’s capabilities. PanelistsCharles Max WoodGuestJamie PerkinsSpon

In this episode of Adventures in Angular the panel interviews Juan Stoppa about what it is really like working on an enterprise application for a large company. They start by discussing state management and the solutions that they are using and the benefits of using a custom solution.  Juan then explains that it can be difficult getting features out to clients quickly and what their flow looks like. The panel wonders about their architecture and explains the difference between trunk-based development and branch-based development. Juan considers how Angular 9 will improve their use of feature flags. The panel explains what feature flags are.  Shai Reznik aks Juan about their testing. The panel considers how important end to end testing is in an enterprise application. Juan shares the tools they use for testing. Another challenge they face developing an enterprise application is meeting the requirements for the clients since they have so many and they have long release cycles. They finish by discussing the cult

In this episode of Adventures in Angular Charles Max Wood continues interviewing speakers at RxJS Live. First, he interviews Mike Ryan and Sam Julien. They gave a talk about Groupby, a little known operator. They overview the common problems other mapping operators have and how Groupby addresses these problems. The discuss with Charles where these types of operators are most commonly used and use an analogy to explain the different mapping operators.  Next, Charles talks to Tracy Lee. Her talk defines and explains the top twenty operators people should use. In her talk, she shows real-world use cases and warns against gotchas. Tracy and Charles explain that you don’t need to know all 60 operators, most people only need about 5-10 to function. She advises people to know the difference between the different types of operators. Tracy ends her interview by explaining her desire to inspire women and people of minority groups. She and Charles share their passion for diversity and giving everyone the chance to do wh

In this episode of Adventures in Angular Charles Max Wood does interviews at RxJS Live. His first interview is with Hannah Howard at RxJS Live about her talk. Hannah is really enthusiastic about RxJS especially when it comes to frontend development. Her talk is about how to architect full-scale apps with RxJS. Hannah gives a brief summary of her talk. Charles having met Hanna previously at Code Beam asks her how functional programming and reactive programming work together in her mind. Hannah describes how she sees programming.  Charles’s next interview is with Ben Lesh, a core team member of RxJS. Ben has been working on RxJS for the last four years. In his talk, he shares the future of RxJs, the timeline for versions 7 and 8. With Charles, he discusses his work on RxJS and the adoption of RxJS.  Next, Charles interviews Sam Julien and Kim Maida. They gave a talk together covering the common problems developers have when learning RxJS. In the talk, they share tips for those learning RxJS. Charles wonders wha

In this episode of Adventures in Angular Charles Max Wood interviews speakers at JAMstack Conf SF. Mandy Michael gives a talk about responsive typography and variable fonts. Mandy explains what variable fonts are and how they can be used to shrink, stretch and do some very fun and creative thing with them. They discuss how to use them and Mandy explains some of the demos from her talk.  Charles asks Mandy what some of the things were that she had to cut from her talk. She had to cut a few longer demos, details and performance improvements that can be made with responsive typography. Mandy shares what she is working on now with responsive typography and explains how much fun she has had expressing herself through variable fonts. To see more of Mandy’s demos and to learn more about responsive typography and variable fonts see the links below.  Next, Charles interviews Shawn Erquhart work runs the Netlify CMS project. Charles shares his experience using Netlify and Shawn addresses some of the issues Charles has

In this episode of Adventures in Angular the panel interviews Dave Cooper, who recently gave a talk at AngularConnect about using Mock Data. Dave starts by explaining more about his talk and sharing the benefits of using data mocking solutions and rapid prototyping. He shares the secrets of doing rapid prototyping.  There are challenges to using mock data, Dave shares a few of them and explains how to overcome them. The number one challenge of using mock data is keeping it in sync with your real data and making it look real.  Dave explains how to get started with mock data and shares library recommendations. The panel discusses the use cases for mock data and Dave walks them through a few scenarios for using mock data. He shares use case recommendations and discusses using mock data for testing.  The panel discusses the benefits of using mock data for demos and courses. The possibilities and future of mock data and pact testing are explored. Dave shares his coding process and explains how much faster he can c

In this episode of Adventures in Angular the panel interviews Phillipe De Ryck. Phillipe is a web security expert out of Belgium. He shares ways for Angular developers to better secure their apps. Phillipe explains to the panel that his goal is not to shame developers but inspire them to do what they can. He knows most developers are just trying to get as much done in the time that they have. In this episode, he shares ways for developers to improve the security of their apps.  The episode starts with some security scary stories. Phillipe invites everyone to check out the OWASP top ten projects. They have lists of the top ten security measures you should be doing, they have lists for different ecosystems and types of projects so there is something there for everyone. Phillipe explains what types of attacks are most common today.  The panel wonders how do you know something is safe to install. Phillipe explains that there are no guarantees. Sharing statistics Phillipe tells then panel that it is worse than the

In this episode of Adventures in Angular Charles Max Wood joins Tammy Everts at JAMstack Confer. Tammy gives a listeners a sneak peek into her talk about website performance, more specifically JavaScript performance. Charles discusses the performance of Devchat.tv and Google Lighthouse scores. Tammy explains that while Google Lighthouse is good it isn’t completely reliable and can miss chunks of time when your JavaScript is failing and you have unhappy users.Tammy shares ways to drill down and see how your JavaScript is behaving in the wild. She talks about blocking Javascript which every developer is familiar with and non-blocking JavaScript that has high blocking CPU time which makes for janky sites. Tammy and Charles discuss what CPU is and what it measures. Tammy names resources and tools to help avoid this problem. Rules of thumb for avoiding these issues are explained by Tammy. First, Reduce, make sure all the JavaScript needs to be there. Next, Monitor, track your metrics. She also suggests working wit

In this episode of Adventures in Angular the panel interview Loiane Groner about her Portuguese content creation. She starts by sharing her story and how she got into content creation and why she creates content for developers in Brazil. She gives advice on how to get started creating blog content and shares strategies for pushing out posts and organizing post ideas.  Moving on to video content, the panel share editing, and recording tips. Loiane shares recommendations for editing and recording software. They advise keeping videos short and to be consistent in creating content. Loiane answers questions about revenue and analytics. She also gives advice on dealing with internet trolls.  The episode ends as Loiane dives into the struggles of learning to code as a native Portuguese speaker in an English based coding language. She explains how translation works and shares opportunities for people to help. The Angular community’s translation efforts are outlined, including translating documentation and their work

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In this episode of Adventures in Angular Charles Max Wood interviews Ire Aderinokun at JAMstack conf 2019. Ire works for Buycoins, a cryptocurrency exchange for Africa. She gave a lightning talk, “Headless Chrome & Cloudinary for progressively enhanced dynamic content on the web”. After giving a brief overview of her talk to Charles, Ire defines progressive enhancement for the listeners.  Walking through how progressive enhancement works, she explains how Headless Chrome and Cloudinary helped her with the project she shared in the talk. Ire and Charles consider the blindspot that developers experience because they work on high-end devices and how using progressive enhancement helps those who use lower-end devices. Ire shares her experience with JAMstack and explains how progressive enhancement works with JAMstack. Charles shares his experience using JAMstack. The episode ends with Ire giving advice and resources to help get started with progressive enhancement.  PanelistsCharles WoodGuest:Ire Aderinokun A

In this episode of Adventures in Angular the panel interviews Stephen Cooper about his recent talk at Angular Connect. His talk was about ngTemplateOutlets. Stephen answers the questions of the panel about ngTemplateOutlets and explains how and when to use them. He starts by explaining the difference between component outlets and template outlets.  Aaron Frost, Frosty, asks Stephen to walk through how to make a ngTemplate and explain what it is useful for. The panel considers the various use cases they would use this for. Frosty wonders why he would use a ngTemplateOutlet instead of a bunch of ngIfs. Stephen explains when it would be wise to use ngIfs and when it would be better to use ngTemplateOutlets.  The panel discusses ngComponentOutlets, Stephen explains how they relate to ngTemplateOutlets and how they give you another level to reusing components. He overviews the best way to use ngComponentOutlets and warns listeners of the tricky parts.  Stephen shares the best times to use ngTemplateOutlets and ove

In this episode of Adventures in Angular the panel interviews Tara Manicsic. Tara is an Angular Developer Experience Engineer at Netlify. Tara explains what she does at Netlify. She explains what Netlify is and introduces the topic for today’s episode, JAMstack. She explains what services Netlify offers and the packages they offer.  She explains that the JAM in JAMstack stands for JavaScript API Markup, which outlines the best practices of a JAMstack architecture. During her explanation of JAMstack and the benefits of a microservice architecture, she references Smashing Magazine and their switch to JAMstack.  Tara overviews each letter of JAM and how they affect JAMstack. J or Javascript refers to the use of a JavaScript language, like Angular and others. Tara lists the API’s one might use for the A in JAM. The panel discusses the M or Markup. Markup serves up fast and safe prerendered content. Tara explains what prerender means and it makes the content safer and the sites faster. Tara then overviews the enti

In this episode of Adventures in Angular the panel has fun interviewing David East about Firebase. David starts by sharing what it was like at the recent Firebase Summit in Madrid. There were so many announcements they had a tough time fitting them all into the one-hour keynote address.  One of the cool new features announced at the Firebase Summit is Firebase Extension, David describes it as serverless without any code. The panel discusses this feature and how it works. Another cool feature announced is Google Analytics for Firebase. This allows you to use Firebase tools in conjunction with Google Analytics. The panel considers the smart things you can do in your app with this feature.  The next feature the panel discusses is Remote Config which allows you to store data and then pull out that information on demand. If you use the Google Analytics for Firebase you can target specific data for certain audiences. David explains that before this could only be done with native apps. He also explains how in doing

In this episode of Adventures in Angular the panel interviews Zama Khan Mohammed about his recent book and other open source work he has done in the Angular community. Zama explains what is so different about his book and why it is worth reading. His book takes an approach different than the common practice of walking readers through concepts, instead, his book walks readers through using a project perspective.  The first chapter walks through setting up Angular, installing Angular CLI and Angular console. After the set up is complete he walks readers through a very basic flashbase application. Zama explains how this first chapter is geared toward beginners. In his book, Zama shows users how to use the whole platform. He covers PWA and how to create brand new projects from scratch.   The panel asks him about his unique project perspective strategy for this book. Each chapter of Zama’s book walks the readers through a different project, unlike most technical books that walk readers through one project introduc

In this week’s episode of Adventures in Angular the panel has fun interviewing Narwhal rocks star and NgRx expert, Wes Grimes. Wes starts by sharing how he got started in NgRx. In a previous company, Wes was the lead architect for a project that had need of a state management solution, so it was his job to figure out how to use NgRx. While figuring it out he created a structure for using NgRx and used that structure to write a blog article about best practices for NgRx.  This blog article took the world by a storm and now has over 200,00 views. People are now building libraries and courses based on his article. The panel has a little considering the possible searches that lead people to his article. Jennifer Wadella shares some of the weirder searches that have led people to her posts. After their fun, the panel tries to get back on track.  This article thrust Wes into the world of helping people understand NgRx, what he calls a mystical machine. He explains how this article was only the beginning of learning

In this week’s episode of Adventures in Angular the panel interviews Shlomi Assaf, talking about ngrid. After some playful banter about the naming of Ngrid, Shlomi shares the reasons behind building ngrid. The company he was working for at the time need a grid, he tested nggrid but wanted something completely opensource, so he built one. He also explains that nggrid caused some problems in their project which made him want something more customizable. Shlomi explains how much work is needed on the application and asks listeners to contribute to documentation or other areas of the project. Shai Reznik endorses Shlomi as one of the smartest peoples he knows and tells listeners if they want to learn from someone who knows a lot about angular to step up and join this project.  The panel asks about the challenges Shlomi faced while building this app and what it was like using the CDK. Nggrid has a how company working on it but ngrid has only Shlomi. Shlomi explains that the CDK had a lot of the building blocks nee