Stay ConnectedThe Angular Plus Show is leveling up! The Ai Dev Craft Show takes the same great developer conversations you know and expands them into the fast-moving world of AI, coding, tools, agents, architecture, and everything changing how we build software.It’s also the official podcast of Ai Dev Craft, coming to Las Vegas October 27–28, 2026. New name, bigger playground, same developer-first spirit.
Featuring special guest, Joe Eames.
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Protractor has been a staple of Angular E2E testing since the beginning, but news of its deprecation saw it being removed from the Angular library in Version 15. With so many Angular applications still using Protractor for E2E tests, Endbridge is a tool that developers might reach for to bridge the gap between the legacy Protractor tools and more modern tools like Cypress. Joe Eames joins us in this episode to talk about how we can decide when tests are worth changing, when they should be left alone, and when a tool like Endbridge might be appropriate.
Find out more at endbridge.dev and www.legionbuilds.com/dice
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Joe Eames @josepheames
The Angular Plus Show (@AngularShow)
The Angular Plus Show is a part of ng-conf. ng-conf is a multi-day Angular conference focused on delivering the highest quality training in the Angular JavaScript framework. Developers from across the globe converge on Salt Lake City, UT every year to attend talks and workshops by the Angular team and community experts.
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Official Website: https://www.ng-conf.org/
The Ai Dev Craft Show is a part of the Ai Dev Craft Conference happening Master October 27-28, 2026 Las Vegas. Join us weekly as we discuss the rapidly changing AI-scape and how developers can adapt and excel.
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Jay Bell
Mike Hartington
James Spivey
Brian Love
When Angular 16 dropped on May 3rd, so did a lot of jaws. It's hard to believe that the Angular team was able to pack so much into a single release. In this episode of the podcast we talk with Minko Gechev of the Angular team about some of the most exciting features and what these improvements may mean for future versions of the framework.
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Minko Gechev: @mgechev
The Angular Plus Show @AngularShow
The Angular Plus Show is a part of ng-conf. ng-conf is a multi-day Angular conference focused on delivering the highest quality training in the Angular JavaScript framework. 1500+ developers from across the globe converge on Salt Lake City, UT every year to attend talks and workshops by the Angular team and community experts.
Follow us on twitter @ngconf
Official Website: https://www.ng-conf.org/
The Ai Dev Craft Show is a part of the Ai Dev Craft Conference happening Master October 27-28, 2026 Las Vegas. Join us weekly as we discuss the rapidly changing AI-scape and how developers can adapt and excel.
Master developing with AI, become your team’s AI expert
Join us for Ai Dev Craft
Get tickets now! https://ai-devcraft.com/
Special thanks to our hosts:
Lara Newsom
Jay Bell
Mike Hartington
James Spivey
Brian Love
Hydration is the process of taking a pre-rendered static HTML file and turning it into a fully functional interactive SPA by attaching JavaScript event listeners and state management. This allows for faster initial page load times and improved search engine optimization (SEO) while still retaining the benefits of a SPA. Currently, Angular performs hydration by destroying and rebuilding the entire DOM. This works, but it's not ideal. In this episode we welcome Ben Holmes to the show to learn about Astro. Astro is a modern static site builder and development framework that enables developers to create high-performance websites and applications. Ben shows us how this includes features like automatic code splitting, server-side rendering, and preloading to improve website performance and user experience.
Websites
- Astro: https://astro.build
- Astro Angular integration: https://analogjs.org/docs/packages/astro-angular/overview
- Opt-in design talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNbpaJfkGkY
- Ben's socials
- https://youtube.com/@bholmesdev
- https://twitch.tv/bholmesdev
- https://twitter.com/bholmesdev
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The Angular Plus Show (@AngularShow)
The Angular Plus Show is a part of ng-conf. ng-conf is a multi-day Angular conference focused on delivering the highest quality training in the Angular JavaScript framework. 1500+ developers from across the globe converge on Salt Lake City, UT every year to attend talks and workshops by the Angular team and community experts.
Follow us on twitter @ngconf
Official Website: https://www.ng-conf.org/
The Ai Dev Craft Show is a part of the Ai Dev Craft Conference happening Master October 27-28, 2026 Las Vegas. Join us weekly as we discuss the rapidly changing AI-scape and how developers can adapt and excel.
Master developing with AI, become your team’s AI expert
Join us for Ai Dev Craft
Get tickets now! https://ai-devcraft.com/
Special thanks to our hosts:
Lara Newsom
Jay Bell
Mike Hartington
James Spivey
Brian Love
In Nx, a generator is a command-line tool that helps you create and scaffold new projects, applications, and libraries within an Nx workspace. The generators are part of the Nx Devkit, a collection of tools and libraries that provide an opinionated approach to building scalable and maintainable Angular applications and libraries. In this episode we welcome Zack DeRose to the podcast to learn about Nx generators, the value they provide, and how to get started creating our own generators.
Learn more about Nx and check out more of Zack's work on Medium.
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@zackderose
The Angular Plus Show (@AngularShow)
The Angular Plus Show is a part of ng-conf. ng-conf is a multi-day Angular conference focused on delivering the highest quality training in the Angular JavaScript framework. 1500+ developers from across the globe converge on Salt Lake City, UT every year to attend talks and workshops by the Angular team and community experts.
Follow us on twitter @ngconf
Official Website: https://www.ng-conf.org/
The Ai Dev Craft Show is a part of the Ai Dev Craft Conference happening Master October 27-28, 2026 Las Vegas. Join us weekly as we discuss the rapidly changing AI-scape and how developers can adapt and excel.
Master developing with AI, become your team’s AI expert
Join us for Ai Dev Craft
Get tickets now! https://ai-devcraft.com/
Special thanks to our hosts:
Lara Newsom
Jay Bell
Mike Hartington
James Spivey
Brian Love
In this Dev Life edition of the Angular Plus Show, Preston Lamb, Jason Warner and Stephen Cooper talk about some of the highlights of Angular’s version 15 release. They cover several pieces of the update that excite them or that give the developer experience a boost. Afterwards, Brooke and Preston have a further discussion on the topic with some additional insights and thoughts.
LINKS:
https://twitter.com/SCooperDev
https://dev.to/scooperdev
https://www.ag-grid.com/
CONNECT WITH US:
Brooke Avery - @jediBravery
Preston Lamb - @PrestonJLamb
Stephen Cooper - @SCooperDev
Jason Warner - @xocomil_1
The Ai Dev Craft Show is a part of the Ai Dev Craft Conference happening Master October 27-28, 2026 Las Vegas. Join us weekly as we discuss the rapidly changing AI-scape and how developers can adapt and excel.
Master developing with AI, become your team’s AI expert
Join us for Ai Dev Craft
Get tickets now! https://ai-devcraft.com/
Special thanks to our hosts:
Lara Newsom
Jay Bell
Mike Hartington
James Spivey
Brian Love
This week we are joined by Todd Gardner from Request Metrics and TrackJs as we talk about observability and gathering meaningful metrics on Angular applications. We discuss tools and strategies to leverage observability to detect security threats and to provide users the best experience possible.
Find us and our guests on twitter:
@toddhgardner
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The Angular Plus Show is a part of ng-conf.
ng-conf is a multi-day Angular conference focused on delivering the highest quality training in the Angular JavaScript framework. 1500+ developers from across the globe converge on Salt Lake City, UT every year to attend talks and workshops by the Angular team and community experts.
Follow us on twitter@ngconf
Official Website: https://www.ng-conf.org/
The Ai Dev Craft Show is a part of the Ai Dev Craft Conference happening Master October 27-28, 2026 Las Vegas. Join us weekly as we discuss the rapidly changing AI-scape and how developers can adapt and excel.
Master developing with AI, become your team’s AI expert
Join us for Ai Dev Craft
Get tickets now! https://ai-devcraft.com/
Special thanks to our hosts:
Lara Newsom
Jay Bell
Mike Hartington
James Spivey
Brian Love
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