Adventures in Angular

Panel: 

• Charles Max Wood
• Alyssa Nicoll
• Ward Bell
• John Papa
• Special Guests: Brittany Moore

In this episode of Adventures in Angular, the panel talks to Brittany Moore about her unique experience into Angular. Brittany has been working as a front-end developer for about four years and is currently a consultant for Test Double. She was first introduced to Angular at a talk that John Papa gave and was blown away by the sheer power of it. She really encourages people who are learning Angular to get out and attend talks, conferences and meetups so that they can build connections and get more information from people who are good at what they do.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Brittany intro
• Angular
• Front-end background
• JavaScript and CSS
• Discovered Angular from a talk
• Angular JS and Angular 2.0
• What made Angular appeal to you?
• CS graduate
• Before Angular, she used a lot of trial and error
• C#
• Had trouble getting stated without a JavaScript background
• Angular gave her a clear path forward and a framework that was understandable
• Got on as many online communities she could
• Learned Angular through help on the internet and community resources
• Encourages people to attend conferences and meetups
• Ruby Rogues Episode 255
• How did you go to conferences when you didn’t know anyone?
• The importance of pushing yourself out of your comfort zone
• Her career is defined by the conferences she went to
• Emotional reaction to conferences
• ng Vikings
• Just going to the conferences are beneficial
• What were your biggest OMG moments at conferences?
• And much, much more!

Links: 

• JS Dev Summit
• Test Double
• Angular
• JavaScript
• RR Episode 255
• ng Vikings
• @BAnnMoore
• Brittany’s GitHub
• Brittany’s Blog

Picks:Charles

• Hogwarts Battle Board Game
• Pandemic Legacy
• JS Dev Summit
• React Dev Summit
• Using User Voice again on Website

Alyssa

• Diversity Fundraiser

Ward

• ngRx Data

Brittany

• Hit Refresh by Satya Nadella
• Reigns Her Majesty

Special Guest: Brittany Moore.

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Panel: 

• Charles Max Wood
• Ward Bell
• Shai Reznik
• John Papa
• Joe Eames

Special Guests: Doguhan UlucaIn this episode of Adventures in Angular, the panel discusses doing more with less and router-first architecture with Doguhan Uluca. Doguhan works for a consulting company in Washington D.C. called Excella, where he is on the JavaScipt Special fleet and is a software development expert. He is also the founder of the Tech Talk DC meetup and organized the DC Full Stack Dev Summit last year. They talk about doing more with less with code and the importance of deleting code that is unnecessary. Also, they discuss router-first architecture and how it can be used to your advantage in your coding.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Doguhan intro
• Excella Consulting Company
• Tech Talk DC
• DC Full Stack Dev Summit
• Being a polyglot is great, but in practice it is very difficult
• What is true a polyglot developer?
• Deleting code
• Why would you want to delete code?
• Do more with less when it comes to code
• JavaScript
• Going back to the basics
• More code lends to more bugs and issues
• How does this relate to router-first architecture?
• Writing a book
• Need a road map before you star refining things
• Get a picture of the shape of the application and then start thinking ahead of time
• The importance of planning ahead when coding
• Agile Software Development
• Walking skeleton from the beginning
• Get to the first wrong answer as quickly as possible and fix it
• And much, much more!

Links: 

• JS Dev Summit
• Excella
• Tech Talk DC
• DC Full Stack Dev Summit
• JavaScript
• Agile Software Development
• TheJavaScriptPromise.com
• @Duluca

Picks:Charles

• JavaScript Dev Summit
• Get a Coder Job Course

Ward

• Homo Deus by Harari

Shai

• RxViz.com
• ng-conf

John

• Twitch

Joe

• Wasteland Express Delivery Service Board Game

Doguhan

• TheJavaScriptPromise.com
• Ship It or It Never Happened Conference 
• RunKit.com

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Panel: 

• Charles Max Wood
• Joe Eames

Special Guests: Stephen FluinIn this episode of Adventures in Angular, the panel discusses Angular today with Stephen Fluin. He leads developer relations on the Angular team, and he has two missions when it comes to the Angular team: to help developers and organizations be successful with Angular and to understand what it’s like to be an Angular developer in the real world, so they can make the right platform decisions as they evolve things from their side. They talk about the new things that are happening with Angular and discuss where the framework is headed in the future.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Stephen background
• Two missions on the Angular team
• Angular
• What’s new with Angular?
• Angular version 5 update
• Pre-fix change for developers
• Component development kits
• NG Bootstrap
• PrimeFaces
• Advantages of using the CDK
• Angular CLI
• Schematics
• NG Update
• Build Tools convergence and how it will affect effect developers
• Webpack
• Integrating Bazel in the future
• Get a Coder Job Course
• NG generate
• And much, much more!

Links: 

• DevRel
• Angular
• Angular version 5
• NG Bootstrap
• PrimeFaces
• Schematics
• Angular CLI
• Webpack
• Bazel
• Get a Coder Job Course
• NG Generate
• Angular Blog
• Angular GitHub
• @StephenFluin

Picks:Charles

• Hogwarts Battles Board Game
• Get a Coder Job Course

Joe

• Pathfinder Plot Twists
• Arrested Development

Stephen

• Demos with Angular Videos
• RXmarbles.com

Special Guest: Stephen Fluin.

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Panel: Charles Max WoodAlyssa Nicoll Special Guests: Sacha GreifIn this episode of Adventures in Angular, the panel discuss the state of JS survey with Sacha Greif. This is a survey that is sent out to developers in order to see what people perceive the state of JavaScript is. They talk about his inspiration for creating this survey as well as discuss the data that was collected. This is a great episode for people who want to hear interesting data on JS in today’s current climate.In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 

• What is the State of JS?
• 23,000 responses this past year
• What inspired you to do this?
• JavaScript
• Meteor
• JavaScript fatigue
• Great snapshot of where people are at
• Backbone
• Great tool to detect trends
• Backgrounds of the people who created this survey
• Bias in the results
• GraphQL
• Correlation vs causation issue
• Why certain frameworks are scarce
• Bootcamps are teaching React and Angular now
• Do you have indications as to why there are increases in some areas and declines in others?
• Vue is the fastest rising project on GitHub currently
• Rising Star JS
• And much, much more!

Links:  

• Rising Star JS
• @SachaGreif
• VulcanJS.org
• Sidebar.io

Picks:Charles

• The Greatest Showman
• React Dev Summit 2018
• React Roundup 
• Views on Vue

Sacha

• Rising Stars JS
• Best of JS

Special Guest: Sacha Greif.

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Panel: Charles Max WoodShai ReznikJoe EamesJohn Papa Special Guests: NoneIn this episode of Adventures in Angular, the panel discuss the Framework Summit. This is a conference that is focused on front-end frameworks, such as Angular, React, and Ember. Frameworks are such a central piece to front-end development, and so this conference is going to be detailed towards people who are working with multiple types of frameworks or want to learn about new frameworks. One of the biggest goals of this conference is to help end framework wars and bring people from different types of frameworks together.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• What is the Framework Summit?
• How is this conference different from other general JavaScript conferences?
• Broad conference- includes many different frameworks
• Good amount of content on each framework
• What will the experience be like at the conference?
• Higher chance of finding a talk you’re interested in
• 2-day conference
• Single-track and multi-track days
• Ember, Knockout, View, Elm, Angular, and React
• Oct 2-3, 2018 in Park City, Utah
• Great for meeting people and making connections
• Comparing the frameworks
• Fostering community
• How similar each of the frameworks are
• Goals of the conference
• Framework wars
• What do you get out of this conference?
• Meeting people from different communities
• And much, much more!

Links:  

• Linode
• Angular Bootcamp
• LootCrate
• Framework Summit
• @FrameworkSummit

Picks:Charles

• GameVice
• PipeDrive
• View and React Podcasts Coming Soon
• React Summit

Joe

• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• Simon Jones (Narrator on Audible)

Shai

• Fighting Perfectionism BlogPost
• Tony Robbins

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Panel: Charles Max WoodJoe EamesAlyssa NicollJohn PapaWard Bell Special Guests: Alex EagleIn this episode of Adventures in Angular, the panel discusses Angular’s BuildTools with Alex Eagle. Alex has been working on the Angular core team at Google for the past three years and works on developer tooling there. He discusses the advantages of using a new build system, Bazel, and how using this system could improve your coding across the board. They also compare Bazel to other Angular tools and talk about when you would want to integrate Bazel into your tool belt.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Angular plumbing
• Google Monorepo
• Bazel software
• Micro-services
• Not all tools need to be written JavaScript
• Pros of Bazel build system
• Compilation in Angular CLI
• Two second rule
• How do you know when Bazel is good for you?
• Production mode vs development mode
• Feeling nervous about using Bazel
• Want your CI to have cashing
• What does Bazel look like today?
• What will Bazel look like when your done with it?
• Take rules and compose them however you want
• Bazel syntax is like Python
• Rules
• Bazel Ecosystem vs Angular Ecosystem
• Tools in your Toolchain
• And much, much more!

Links:  

• Linode
• FreshBooks
• Angular Bootcamp
• G.co/ng/abc
•  

Picks:Charles

• Developer Week
• ngATL

Joe

• The Greatest Showman
• Kids on Bikes 
•  

Alyssa

• The Impossible Project
•  

Ward

• Fly Like an Eagle by Steve Miller Band

Alex

• Pocket Operators

Special Guest: Alex Eagle.

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Panel: Charles Max WoodJoe Eames Special Guests: Udo SchöferIn this episode of Adventures in Angular, the panel discusses NG Dynamic Forms with Udo Schöfer. Udo is web engineer from Nuremberg, Germany, with a focus on Angular, Node and Responsive Design. He is also the creator of NG Dynamic Forms. Udo discusses this topic and when and why it is best used, as well as the steps to use this library in Angular. He wanted to be able to give something back to the community and invites everyone to at least give it a try.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• NG Dynamic Forms Library
• Dynamically generates forms based on the field it’s given
• What level would you want to use this at?
• This is for complex, heavily form driven single-page applications
• Defines validators and error messages in an easy way
• MongoDB
• Disadvantages to using a Dynamic Forms approach
• When does it get complicated to use?
• Libraries
• Flexbox layouts
• Needs for this library
• Steps to use this in Angular
• Debugging
• Validations in the form
• Template vs Reactive Base forms
• How to test forms
• Angular test bed and angular code
• Comparison on Udo’s GitHub Account
• Future projects
• And much, much more!

Links:  

• Linode
• RayGun
• Udo’s GitHub
• http://www.udos86.de
• Angular Bootcamp
•  

Picks:Charles

• Game Vice
• State of the Union Address

Joe

• Framework Summit
• Firefly

Udo

• Tom Brady
• Wrong Creatures by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Special Guest: Udo Schöfer.

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Panel: Charles Max WoodJoe EamesAlyssa NicollWard BellShai ReznikSpecial Guests: Minko GechevIn the episode of Adventures in Angular the panel discusses Angular Differs with Minko Gechev. Minko is a return guest to AiA, and is the founder o Rhyme and contributes to the Open Source community regularly. Minko is on the show to talk about Angular Differs. The discussion covers the details of the Differs and why they are important on the Angular platform. The topics covered are the concerns of differs, data applications and structures, problems solved and why it is good for Angular developers and much more.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Startup Rhyme and Open Source
• Differs
• Differ helps find out the difference in data applications
• Problems it solves and why it is good for a day to day Angular developer
• Behavior of NG 4 - Example
• Binding refresh
• How made you write the blog post?
• Pump a Promise or an Async?
• Binding to Differs, Observable, etc.
• Turbo Differ
• Track by Function
• Implementing the track by function
• Implementation detail
• Tips for Building and Test Differs?
• Angular source?
• Rhyme
• and much more!

Links:  

• http://blog.mgechev.com
• https://github.com/mgechev
• @mgechev
• https://rhyme.com

Picks:Charles

• Tuft and Needle
• Apple AirPods

Alyssa

• Arch  - game
• War Knight - game

Ward

• The Translation of The Odyssey

Joe

• Do The Work
• The Art of Overwatch

Shai

• Growing Object Orient Software, Guided By Test 
• VICE - How To Become Trip Advisor’s  #1 Fake Restaurant

Minko

• 3rd Edition of Book Switching to Angular 
• Conditional types of TypeScript
• Stack Blitz 

Special Guest: Minko Gechev.

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Panel: Charles  Max WoodJohn PapaAlyssa NicollWard BellShai ReznikSpecial Guests: Austin McDanielIn the episode of Adventures in Angular the panel discusses Reducing Boilerplate of Redux/NGRX Patterns in Angular with Austin McDaniel. Austin is an Angular Team Member, he contributes to the material project, is a panelist on the Angular Air Podcast, and much more. Austin talks about the boilerplate issues of Redux/NGRX Patterns in Angular. Austin and the panel discuss the fixes for these once difficult actions with NGRX actions. This is a great episode to understand the reduced boilerplate and libraries.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:•Issues with boilerplate

• Libraries
• Redux patter for Angular - Advantages
• NGRX
• Complexities
• If you are using and injectable service
• More resources at: AiA Episode 169 with Jesse Sanders 
• Question what we are saying!
• Make sure it is solving problems
• Store systems
• Writing an API
• Command Query Operation
• Switch Statements
• Redux Actions
• Passing String constants
• Actions and Type
• Passing the action class
• Reducers
• Keeping the project portable
• Relations
• Code Generator

•and much more!Links:  

• http://amcdnl.com
• Angular Air Podcast
• @amcdnl
• github.com/amcdnl
• https://devchat.tv/adv-in-angular/aia-169-ngrx-entities-jesse-sanders
• https://github.com/amcdnl/ngrx-actions

Picks: Charles

• Sling TV
• Roku Express

Alyssa

• My Fitness Pal
• DropBox Paper

Ward

• Last Pencil Factory

John

• NGX Charts 
• Five Things Web Show 

Shai

• Getting Things Done 
• Workflowy
• Karma Maca Reporter

Austin

• Apollo Graph QL 
• StoryBook 

Special Guest: Austin McDaniel.

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Panel: Joe EamesAlyssa NicollWard BellSpecial Guests: Eric Simons and Albert PaiIn the episode of Adventures in Angular, the panel discusses StackBlitz with Eric Simons and Albert Pai. the co-founders of thinkster.io, where their company javascript technology’s various frameworks and backend. Also, with the recent creation of Stalkblitz, which is the main topic of today discussion.Stackblitz it an online VS Code IDE for Angular, React, Ionic, and a few more other technologies are supported. This is designed to run web pack and vs code inside your browser at blazing fast speeds. Eric and Albert dive into the many different advantages and services available by StackBlitz and thinker.io.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:•Programming at 10-13 years old

• Created thinkerster.io together
• What is Stalkblitz?
• Local dev environments
• Six months of work into making Stackblitz online
• What is the business model?
• Are you using Monaco?
• VS Code Dark Plus
• Concept and possibilities of building Stalkblitz
• NPM and IDE sides
• Low amount of resources?
• Written in vanilla Javascript
• Speed and increasing performance
• How did you do the NPM stuff?
• Yarn and NPM Binaries
• Dependency managers
• 5X speed increase
• The need for the CLI
• Schools using Stackblitz to teach JavaScript
• Speed, running offline
• Custom API for Angular
• Turbo
• Firebase
• Azure - Deploy?
• Features?
• VS Docs
• VS Code

•and much more!Links: 

• thinkster.io
• https://medium.com/@ericsimons/stackblitz-online-vs-code-ide-for-angular-react-7d09348497f4
• @stackblitz
• stackblitz.com

Picks:Joe

• Something Rotten
• Dollars and Cents 

Alyssa

• NG Atlanta 
• The Greatest Showman 

Ward

• No Pick

Eric and Albert

• realworld.io
• thinkster.io

Special Guests: Albert Pai and Eric Simons .

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