ng build --pod

In Angular applications, clean components help to keep your code readable and straightforward.  In this episode, Chris and John cover how to critically review your components to know when they are too complicated, and some ways to go about refactoring them, including using Services to handle some of the more complicated business logic.

Quick Tips:

Ultralearning

Pomodoro technique

Links:

https://www.amazon.com/Ultralearning-Master-Outsmart-Competition-Accelerate/dp/006285268X

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique

Music: Phortitude by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

This week John and Chris use an example of building a forum to talk about how to conditionally create the components you need without the use of ngIf statements.  The discussion includes the steps to get there, why you would want to do it this way, and gotchas along the way.

Quick Tips:

Regex101 FTW

cmder console

Links:

https://regex101.com/

https://cmder.net/

https://angular.io/guide/dynamic-component-loader

Music: Phortitude by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

This week it's all about Testing.  Specifically Unit Testing in Angular.  John and Chris cover everything from why you want to test your code and how to get started with testing, including some gotchas along the way.

Quick Tips:

Using Dynalist to organize your thoughts and work plans

Splitting your Angular libraries for better performance

Links:

https://angular.io/guide/testing

https://dynalist.io/

https://medium.com/angular-in-depth/improve-spa-performance-by-splitting-your-angular-libraries-in-multiple-chunks-8c68103692d0

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-cobra-effect-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast/

Music: Phortitude by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

This week John and Chris talk about Authentication in Angular.  They discuss everything from how to guard your routes in your Angular app to methods for modifying the http requests to include auth tokens.

Quick Tips:

Image and video capture in your merge requests

Windows PowerToys and screen templates

Links:

https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys

https://angular.io/guide/router#milestone-5-route-guards

https://jwt.io/

https://angular.io/api/common/http/HttpInterceptor

https://maxchadwick.xyz/blog/http-request-header-size-limits

Music: Phortitude by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

Angular Libraries are where you turn your modules into npm packages that can be used in other Angular applications.  John and Chris dive into this subject going over concepts and terms.  Then talk about how to build out and structure your libraries, along with plenty of tips and gotchas.  They even go into how to handle distributing your packages using your own repository manager and semantic versioning.

Quick Tips:

npx and how to use a package without installing it

using rxjs take(1) to fake http calls using a subject

Links:

https://angular.io/guide/libraries

https://github.com/milestechnologies/ngx-package-starter

https://www.npmjs.com/package/npx

https://www.learnrxjs.io/learn-rxjs/operators/filtering/take

https://www.npmjs.com/package/ng-packagr

https://docs.npmjs.com/misc/semver

https://www.sonatype.com/nexus-repository-oss

Music: Phortitude by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

Chris and John tackle RxJS.  Starting with the basics including terminology and concepts and going in depth on use cases, operators, pipes, and some of the tips and gotchas.

Quick Tips:

Fork a GUI for git

Who's afraid of Regex :)

Links:

https://git-fork.com/

https://www.thisdot.co/labs

https://twitter.com/BenLesh

https://twitter.com/ladyleet

http://phillydotnet.org/2020-1-schedule.html go to Saturday's sessions for our talk

https://twitter.com/JohnGrahamDev

https://twitter.com/PilgrimSecret

https://www.milestechnologies.com/careers/

Music: Phortitude by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

Chris and John explore Angular's Change Detection.  Starting with the basics or terminology and concepts and going in depth on how it works, performance concerns, and tips.

Quick Tips:

Windows Key + V

Object.assign()

Links:

https://www.thisdot.co/labs

http://phillydotnet.org/2020-1-schedule.html go to Saturday's sessions for our talk

https://twitter.com/JohnGrahamDev

https://twitter.com/PilgrimSecret

https://www.milestechnologies.com/careers/

Music: Phortitude by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

Chris and John tackle Lazy Loading in Angular.  Starting with the basics including terminology and concepts and going in depth on how it works, performance concerns, and tips.

Quick Tips:

Prettier config files

Impostor Syndrome

Links:

https://prettier.io/

http://phillydotnet.org/2020-1-schedule.html go to Saturday's sessions for our talk

https://twitter.com/JohnGrahamDev

https://twitter.com/PilgrimSecret

https://www.milestechnologies.com/careers/

Music: Phortitude by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com