The Angular Plus Show

EPISODE DESCRIPTION: We all know there are some great perks to being a software engineer with salary being one of them. But just how much can programming turn someone’s life around? In this Dev Life edition of the Angular Plus Show, Sherry List, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft & CEO/Co-Founder of SyntheticAIData, joins the show to talk about Hack Your Future, a non-profit organization dedi...

In this Dev Life edition of the Angular Plus Show Senior Engineer from Nx Dev Tools, Colum Ferry, joins the discussion to share ideas for how you can effectively prevent and resolve conflict on the job as a developer. LINKS: https://twitter.com/FerryColum https://dev.to/coly010 https://colum-ferry.medium.com/ The Blackstone Legacy - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BRDCPVXK?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_88QQ0Q...

"In the final episode of our E2E Testing series, we welcome Debbie O'Brien a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft to introduce and discuss Playwright. Playwright is a relative new comer to the testing world, so what makes it a valuable addition to your project? We cover how Playwright got started, what problems it can solve for your team, how to start testing in your own app, and most importantly w...

In this Dev Life edition of the Angular Plus Show, Brooke and guest host Jordan Powell talk with Senior Developer Stephen Cooper from AG Grid all about blogging as a software engineer. Stephen shares why he decided to get into blogging, his process for writing, & how blogging has helped him both personally and professionally in unexpected ways. We also talk about how writing takes many forms a...

"In Part 2 of our E2E Testing series, Denison Luz, a software engineer at Bitovi, joins the Angular Plus Show to talk about the current landscape of end-to-end test runners, and more specifically, about Cypress and Playwright. Cypress is an open-source end-to-end test framework and test runner that is performant, uses a familiar API to QA Engineers, and reduces flaky tests through retryability. Fu...

In this Dev Life edition of the Angular Plus Show, Brooke and fellow ng-conf speakers Alisa Duncan & Chris Perko give a sneak peek into ng-conf 2023. After sharing a bit about each of their presentations and sharing some of their favorite things to do in Salt Lake City, Preston and Brooke then talk about attending online tech events and how you can maximize both your learning and overall exper...

"Join us as we kick off Episode 1 of the End to End series with Q (Quantarius) Ray. We talk about what end to end testing is, how to strategize what should be an end to end vs unit vs other type of automated test, and then we deep dive into our favorite features of Cypress. Links: https://medium.com/ngconf/angular-testing-integration-testing-36a108efc39 Find us and our guests on twitter: Q Ray @Ti...

What the health!?... In this Dev Life edition of the Angular Plus Show, we take a stand against the natural sedentary lifestyle of software engineers and other tech professionals as we sit at our computers all day. Brandon Hepner, physical therapist and owner of Rock Run Physical Therapy & Rehab, joins the show to talk about the most common physical issues sedentary workers face, how to add so...

Signals are coming to Angular, so who better to talk about it than Ryan Carniato the project founder of Solid Js. In this episode we talk about what drives people to create new frameworks and how collaboration and learning from past iterations is a vital part of the process. We talk about fine grained reactivity which is at the core of Solid Js and how Angular might leverage some of the features o...

In this Dev Life edition of the Angular Plus Show, GDE & Senior Developer Advocate Martina Kraus joins from Germany to discuss information flooding, aka that constant feeling of needing to know everything and always feeling behind as a software developer. whether perceived or real, how can you manage those expectations while also making time to take care of yourself? Grab some eggy noodles and...

Oftentimes we find ourselves working with legacy APIs or less than ideal code bases, so what can we do about it? Join us this week as we talk with Cathrin Moller about how we can improve user experience and perceived performance of our application by working with what we can control. Links from the show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUbOVfNYOiU EnterJS in Darmstadt, Germany in June - https://en...

In this Dev Life edition of the Angular Plus Show, Frontend Technology lead & GDE in Angular, Maria Korneeva talks about how to become an Angular expert. Maria starts by sharing her own journey into programming and how those experiences shaped her learning path for how she has continued to master the framework one skill, one story, one day (and one Britney Spears song…?) at a time. LINKS: http...

In this episode we welcome Jason Warner, an ngChampion, co-organizer of the Angular Meet Up, and Twitch Streamer! We talk about the Angular Community, how to get involved, and what it takes to contribute. Find us and our guests on twitter: Jason Warner (@xocomil_1) / Twitter The Angular Plus Show (@AngularShow) / Twitter The Angular Plus Show is a part of ng-conf. ng-conf is a multi-day Angular co...

In this Dev Life edition of the Angular Plus Show, we talk with Stephen Cooper, a Senior Developer from AG Grid, about some of his proudest achievements as a programmer, the top skills he feels that have helped him reach that success, and possibly some discussion about peanut butter cups. Brooke & Preston then reflect on how EVERY developer can have these kinds of professional wins and proud a...

The Angular team has been hard at work and recently announced their efforts to introduce fine-grained reactivity to the framework with Signals. In this episode, we talk through how the current implementation of change detection works in Angular, what our current options are for reactivity, what signals are, and how the Angular team is proposing to leverage Signals to offer fine grained reactivity...

Being a software engineer is time demanding. There’s always another bug to fix or another feature to build. So how do you make time to follow your other passions outside of work? WHY should you follow your other passions outside of work? Colum Ferry, Senior Software Engineer at Nrwl and newly published author of the Blackstone Legacy novel, joins the show to share how he balances his job and perso...

Welcome to The Dev Life on the Angular Plus Show podcast where hosts Brooke Avery & Preston Lamb dive into topics and discussions with members from the Angular community on how to find success and fulfillment in all stages of your career. Hear from others who share the stories, experiences, career tips, advice, and setbacks that have helped them live their ultimate dev life and how you can too...

Welcome back to the first episode of season five of the Angular Plus Show! In this episode we talk with Santosh Yadav about his journey from a kid from Mumbai to a globally recognized speaker, Angular GDE, and India's first Github All-Star. https://youtu.be/3qBXWUpoPHo Find us and our guests on twitter: https://twitter.com/SantoshYadavDev The Angular Plus Show (@AngularShow) / Twitter The Angular...

Join us at ng-conf 2023! ng-conf | June 14-15, 2023 Workshops | June 12-13, 2023 Location | Salt Lake City, UT 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. Follo...

It is too easy to forget about application accessibility which causes very real problems for every day users. Join us as we talk with Sandi Barr about steps we can take to make accessibility an integral part of not only our application but also our CICD pipelines. Sandi K Barr (@sandikbarr) / Twitter https://dev.to/angular/angular-eslint-rules-for-keyboard-accessibility-236f https://dev.to/angular...

It's always a pleasure to welcome Emma Twersky to the podcast. In this episode we talk about how the pandemic helped shape the public face of the Angular team, and then we dive into some of the exciting features of the V15 release. https://twitter.com/twerske https://angular.io/ Follow us on X:  @DevLifePodcast X: @AngularShow Bluesky: @theangularplusshow.bsky.social The Angular Plus Show and The...

As an Angular Developer, you might be writing Typescript but are you REALLY writing typescript? Join us as we welcome Shaundai Person to the podcast where we will talk about what we love about Typescript, what is frustrating about Typescript, and why Typescript is an important tool for teams and code bases across all Javascript frameworks. tsforjs.com twitter.com/shaundai linkedin.com/in/shaundai...

Cypress 11 has been released and one of the most anticipated new features is the GA release of Cypress Component Testing! We are joined on this episode by Jordan Powell of Cypress to discuss what component testing is, how it is different from traditional Cypress e2e testing, where it might fit in the testing pyramid and most importantly, how to get started. https://docs.cypress.io/guides/component...

Standalone components in Angular have been the talk of the community since they were released for Developer Preview in v14, but how and when do we use them? What does this mean for our existing applications and what does this open up for the future of Angular? Join us as we welcome Jay Bell to the podcast and talk all things standalone! https://www.npmjs.com/package/ @trellisorg/rx-dynamic-compone...

At the end of the day, we build our apps for our users, and let's face it, no one likes slow apps. But how can we measure app performance? What are some common places to start looking to speed up performance in our Angular Applications? This week Ady Ngom joins us to share his tips for lightning fast Angular applications whether the app is brand new or desperately needs a makeover. https://twitter...