Adventures in Angular

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AiA 177: Angular's BuildTools Convergence with Alex Eagle Feb 20, 2018

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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!

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Joe

Alyssa

The Impossible Project

Ward

Fly Like an Eagle by Steve Miller Band

Alex

Pocket Operators

Special Guest: Alex Eagle.
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AiA 176: NG Dynamic Forms with Udo Schöfer Feb 13, 2018

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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!

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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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AiA 175: Angular Differs with Minko Gechev Feb 07, 2018

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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!

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Alyssa

Arch - game
War Knight - game

Ward

The Translation of The Odyssey

Joe

Shai

Minko

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

Special Guest: Minko Gechev.
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AiA 174: Reducing Boilerplate of Redux/NGRX Patterns in Angular with Austin McDaniel Jan 31, 2018

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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

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Alyssa

My Fitness Pal
DropBox Paper

Ward

Last Pencil Factory

John

Shai

Getting Things Done
Workflowy
Karma Maca Reporter

Austin

Apollo Graph QL
StoryBook

Special Guest: Austin McDaniel.
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AiA 173: StackBlitz with Eric Simons and Albert Pai Jan 24, 2018

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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:

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Alyssa

Ward

No Pick

Eric and Albert

Special Guests: Albert Pai and Eric Simons .
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AiA 172: The Clarity Project at VMware with Eudes Petonnet-Vincent and Matt Hippely Jan 16, 2018

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Panel: Charles Max WoodJoe EamesAlyssa NicollWard BellSpecial Guests: Eudes Petonnet-Vincent and Matt Hippely In the episode of Adventures in Angular the panel discusses The Clarity Project at VMware with Eudes Petonnet-Vincent and Matt Hippely. Matt is a user interface engineer and has been working on The Clarity Project for a year. Matt has front experience as well as in many other aspects of the Clarity project. Eudes is a Web UI engineer, and well all piece of the stack in the project. Clarity is an Angular component library and full design system. The panel and guest discuss the build of the Clarity project, bootstrap, VMware, and much more.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

An Angular component library
A Full design system
Bootstrap
Data Grid
VMware - open source
Consistency
Challenges of writing an open-source component library
Innovating in Angular since beta
The spread across VMware before going open-source
Building a competent Library for Angular
Building another bootstrap
Moving the framework
Trust the enforcing of the buttons
How did package up a 3rd party library? How is you tackle it?
NG packager
Manual Go build
Consider option for Clarity React, Clarity Custom Elements
and much more!

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PB Wiki

Joe

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

Alyssa

Ward

New Hammock
Lincoln in the Bardo

Eudes

Event of Code
Bit Burner

Matt

Special Guests: Eudes Petonnet-Vincent and Matt Hippely .
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AiA 171: Why People Are Sticking With AngularJS (1.x) Jan 10, 2018

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Panel: Charles Max WoodJoe EamesAlyssa NicollIn the episode of Adventures in Angular the panel discusses why people are sticking with Angular JS (1.x). The panel talks about the pros and cons of working in Angular 1.x. Chuck talks about a quick poll and about those who are still using AngularJS 1.x and not Angular 2.x. The discussion covers resources, expertise, familiarity, community, stability, RXJS, etc. This is a great episode for those who want to learn more about reasons to why some abandon or stay with AngularJS 1.x.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:•Why are you still using with Angular 1.x, and not Angular 2.x

More people are experts in Angular 1.x
Example: Which iPhone are you using?
RXJS
Changes, Stability, etc.
Keeping up with AngularJS
Bridging the Gap since 1.6
Upgrading to View
Working in View
Typescript and View working together
Comparison to Politics
Using Backbone
Reason to moving on to new platforms
Consider testing and take off the beta tag
New versions every month - Typescript, release schedule for Angular
Complexities
RXJS
DSL Decorators
Angular 2 material
Comparison Charts of Angular 1.x and Angular 2.x
Fixing what is not broken
Google supporting Angular 1.x
NG Doc
Wanting to do AngularJS
Server-side render rendering
I need widgets.
Angular 1.x declining
and much more!

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My Angular Story on Dev Chat TV
Indiegogo for View and React, and Elixir
JavaScript Daily

Joe

Alyssa

NG Conf.

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AiA 170: NG Atlanta with Zack Chapple and Kim Maida Jan 04, 2018

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Panel: Ward BellJoe EamesCharles Max WoodSpecial Guests: Zack Chapple & Kim MaidaIn the episode of Adventures in Angular the panel speaks with Zack Chapple. Zack is a software architect at Career Builder , and is the founder and main organizer for NG Atlanta. Zack is on the show to talks about the inspiration for NG Atlanta and the origin stories of the conference. Zack describes the details and goals of the conferences concerning diversity, demographics, and technology.Also joining the show is Kim Maida. Kim is the technical content lead at Auth0. Kim talks about the demographics of women and the diversity of the conference speaks and attendees. Zack is on the show to talks about the inspiration for NG Atlanta and the origin stories of the conference. Zack describes the details and goals of the conferences concerning diversity, demographics, and technology.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

NG Atlanta - Two-day workshop and Two single-track conference
Diversity, Inclusion, Angular
Technology related to Angular
Leverage where we are in technology
Origin story of NG Atlanta
Programs
Holistic approach
Community and interpersonal skills
Diversity
50 percent of speakers are women
Tech conferences and statistics
Contributions
Diversity and Demographics
Calling out conferences
Putting together conferences
Code of conduct
Criteria for conferences
and much more!

Links:

https://www.careerbuilder.com
http://ng-atl.org
@KimMaida
@zchapple
https://auth0.com/blog/

Picks: Charles

Star Wars
Indiegogo for View and React, and Elixir

Joe

Murder on the Orient Express

Ward

Translation of the Odyssey

Zach

Kim

Special Guests: Kim Maida and Zack Chapple.
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AiA 169: NGRX Entities with Jesse Sanders Dec 27, 2017

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Panel: Ward BellAlyssa NicollJoe EamesJohnCharles Max WoodSpecial Guests: Jesse SandersIn the episode of Adventures in Angular the panel speaks with Jesse Sanders. Jesse is the CEO of BrieBug, A consulting firm in Denver Colorado. Jesse talks about the interesting challenges his company encounters with helping their clients with form creative solutions. Jesse mentions being a developer for over 20 years and familiarity with many platforms.Jesse is on the show to talk about NGRZX, Entities, Redux States, etc, the panel asks questions about how this all applies to Angular. Jesse talks about the current complexities and how these tools handle events, components, etc. This is a great episode to learn more about NGRX, Entities, and Redux, and how they used with Angular.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:•What does BrieBug do for its clients?

Show what is the state management stuff?
Thousand lines of code?
Dumb and Smart components
Redux? Isn’t that a React Thingy
Redux is just a pattern
Un-opinionated
Nested data
Mabex
Redux has much ceremony around it…
Choosing redux
Shared State
There is no one sire fits all solution
If NGRX was right for us?
Combining states
Normalizing data first
Converting data from ray data
Using an adapter
Dictionaries
Deconstructing
How to we make its NGRX pattern easier?
Difficulties with the patterns
Learning the step zone

•and much more!Links:

https://www.briebug.com
https://github.com/briebug
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pffEkpuZpPo
Slides from presentation

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NG Atlanta
Indiegogo for View and React, and Elixir
Echo

John

Learning more about View, React, and Angular

Ward

Going to see Star Wars

Joe

Alyssa

Survey Results for the state of JavaScript

Jesse

Special Guest: Jesse Sanders.
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AiA 168: Angular Connect with Peter Bacon Darwin Dec 20, 2017

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Panel:Ward BellAlyssa NicollJohn PapaJoe EamesCharles Max WoodSpecial Guests: Peter Bacon Darwin and Megan Kingdom-DaviesIn the episode of Adventures in Angular the panel speaks with Peter Bacon Darwin and Megan Kingdom-Davies. Peter is an Angular Developer, known for maintaining AngularJS and the creator of Jammy. Megan is an event organizer with White October Events in the UK and has organized the Angular Connect Event. The panel and guest discuss the great environment of the conference and the business and community connections they form during the conference.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:•Angular Connect Conference details and what it is about

Who is it for?
What is the selling point?
Creating contacts and connections
Office hours of the conference
Informal conference events
Meeting new people in the community
Closed Captioning
Diversity and inclusion of the community
Facilities available for gender, religious, physical, and psychological specifics
How many attendees and how big is the conference - 1100 attendees/ 60 speakers
Big announcements? Angular Elements
Mobex
Chicken Dance
and much more!

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Picks:Charles