Adventures in Angular

In this episode of Adventures in Angular, Brad McAlister joins our regular panelists: Alyssa, Chris, and Brooks! Brad walks us through his work of transitioning into an Annex Monorepo and how working with Angular Elements in conjunction has been going. Brad also breaks down what StoryBook is and how it has helped him in his workflows. Picks Alyssa - Watch Harry Potter movies when its Fall  Alyssa...

Michael Hladky joins the adventure to discuss how he's gotten a 60% performance increase using push pipe and related techniques. Many developers can get by without this technology, but Michael explains how to pull the push pipe into your code and what that looks like compared to Zone.js and the default stack in Angular. Links New possibilities with Angular's push pipe - Part 1 Twitter: Michael Rx...

Joaquin Cid is an Argentinian developer who has built a plugin for NGXS state library that allows developers to connect to Firebase and have their queries automatically import into NGXS. Further, it also allows them to define actions that will update their datastore when triggered.  The new Adventures in Angular panel dives into the ins and outs of using NGXS and Firebase to build rich application...

In today's episode, Lucas is joined by Jason Akbar, a full-stack software engineer who’s got a knack for front-end development. He recently penned some intriguing articles on Medium about RxJS operators. He will reveal what motivated him to write about RxJS operators, especially focusing on the top 17 operators that every Angular developer should know. They will break down each of these operators—...

Ankit Sharma, an Angular GDE and author, joins us in this episode of Adventures in Angular to talk about using Azure cognitive services with Angular. Links https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/services/cognitive-services https://tic-tac-toe-d9068.firebaseapp.com/ https://bookcart.azurewebsites.net/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/services/cognitive-services How To Create A Multi-Language Translator...

Armen Vardanyan is an Armenian Angular developer who works extensively with both angular and RXjs. He walks Chuck through the ins and outs of how he uses RXjs to expand the functionality of his Angular applications and how to think about observables in general. Picks Armen-  Frank Herbert's Dune Saga 6-Book Boxed Set  Charles-  The Way of Kings: The Stormlight Archive, Book 1 Charles-  Words of Ra...

Ravi Veliyat helps train people in many web technologies, Angular being one of them. The panel discusses the various ways you can get your components to communicate, from inputs and outputs all the way up to NgRx. Ravi walks through the different options, with great examples that will keep you on the edge of your headphones. Links You might not need NgRx | Mike Ryan | AngularConnect 2018 Subjectin...

Philipp Kief is a German developer who walks through how to manage and capture errors in your Angular application and how to display them to users. He discusses how he standardized error handlers in his applications and what he does to make sure that they get logged someplace. Links Angular Component Extractor Philipp Kief - Medium Philipp Kief Twitter: Philipp Kief ( @PhilippKief ) Picks Charles-...

Nishu Goel joins the Adventure to talk about how Web Components can be used in Angular applications and how to use them to share functionality across multiple applications written in different frameworks. We also dive into how web components are used and compatibility across browsers. Links Angular elements overview manfredsteyer/ngx-build-plus Web Components in Action Stencil Web Components web-c...

The illustrious and well-regarded Gil Fink joins the Adventures in Angular panel to talk about profiling your Angular apps. Profiling consists of finding bottlenecks, and memory leaks among other problems within your application. Most of the time, the problems are hard to see from the development side. Usually, they appear when your user uses a device that is slow or a connection that is faulty. G...

In this episode, Lucas, Armen, and Subrat are joined by Luis Galeas, the CEO and founder of Ambar. Today's discussion dives into the fascinating world of event sourcing, exploring its intricacies in both front-end and back-end development. Event sourcing has emerged as a pivotal technique for managing the state by recording events that can rebuild the application state, bringing unique challenges...

In this episode of Adventures in Angular, Will Gant, author of Remote Work talks about working from home and working outside of the client's office. He and Brooks share their experience with working through the challenges, benefits, and methods of working remotely. Picks Will  - Follow Will's work on >  www.simpleprogrammer.com Brooks -  NGXS Brooks -  Tiger King Become a supporter of this podc...

In this episode of Adventures in Angular the panel interviews Dave Cooper, who recently gave a talk at AngularConnect about using Mock Data. Dave starts by explaining more about his talk and sharing the benefits of using data mocking solutions and rapid prototyping. He shares the secrets of doing rapid prototyping.    There are challenges to using mock data, Dave shares a few of them and explains...

Freddy Montes joins the adventure to discuss how he and his team manage state in their Angular components. Many development teams instinctively reach for a solution like ngrx when they're building their angular apps and start seeing complex state. However, there's a lot of boilerplate and it's often overkill for small to medium apps. Freddy talks about his journey into managing state for his compo...

Have you ever thought how nice it'd be to write your apps for desktop and mobile alongside the web? Richard Sithole joins the adventure to discuss how to pull a desktop app and mobile app into your repo using electron and capacitor to extend the functionality to new platforms. It turns out that a single repo cross-platform app isn't a total pipe dream. Links Twitter: Richard Sithole ( @sliqric ) P...

Dive deep into the latest trends and challenges in the development world. Lucas, Armen, and Subrat Mishra are joined by a special guest,  Rakia Ben Sassi, a Google Developer Expert in Angular.  In this episode, they explore the complexities and potential benefits of adopting Zoneless Angular and discuss the critical updates in Angular 18, including improved composability for micro frontends and in...

Special guest, Vitalii Bobrov joins us to talk about accessibility on the web and how to relate it to user experience in general. What can we do to improve accessibility? How can we improve accessibility? Why should we even care about accessibility? Find the answers to these questions and much more on this very insightful episode of Adventures in Angular. Links https://material.angular.io/cdk/a11y...

Alex Eagle is a Software Engineer on the core Angular team at Google. Alex and the panel talk about Bazel, a a free software tool that allows for the automation of building and testing of software. Links Alex’s GitHub Alex’s Twitter Alex’s LinkedIn Bazel Angular and Bazel Join BazelBuild on Slack! Picks Aaron - Axe Throwing Jennifer - Drama on the  The Bachelor ( TV series) Joe -  FIFA Women's Wor...

Raul Jimenez, the CEO of Byte Default, answers the panels many questions on functional programming with NgRx. In this playful interview, Raul defines functional programming and what it is trying to solve. The panel discusses side effects using a Spiderman analogy. Raul shares the benefits of switching to and when to use NgRx. The importance of knowing RxJS in using NgRx is considered by the panel....

In this episode of Adventures in Angular the panel interviews Tara Manicsic. Tara is an Angular Developer Experience Engineer at Netlify. Tara explains what she does at Netlify. She explains what Netlify is and introduces the topic for today’s episode, JAMstack. She explains what services Netlify offers and the packages they offer.    She explains that the JAM in JAMstack stands for JavaScript API...

In this episode of Adventures in Angular the panel interviews Zama Khan Mohammed about his recent book and other open source work he has done in the Angular community. Zama explains what is so different about his book and why it is worth reading. His book takes an approach different than the common practice of walking readers through concepts, instead, his book walks readers through using a projec...

In today's episode, They dive deep into the fascinating world of WebAssembly and Rust with our special guest expert,  Evgeniy Tuboltsev . WebAssembly, a powerful binary format, allows code to run at near-native speeds in the browser, making it ideal for high-performance tasks like video processing, gaming, and cryptography. Rust, a compiled language, seamlessly integrates with WebAssembly, elevati...

 In this episode, they dive deep into the world of Angular application testing with our special guest, Matt, the author of the Angular Mini Book and creator of the ng demo repository. They explore the essentials of unit tests, service tests, and end-to-end tests using Cypress, and discuss the intricacies of building a robust testing infrastructure with tools like Jasmine, Jest, and Storybook. Join...

In this episode of Adventures in Angular, Sani Yusuf stops by for an adventure and chats with Alyssa, Brooks & Chris about building component libraries in Nx and how he feels forms are one of Angular’s most powerful and perhaps underrated features. Links https://zippopotam.us/ Picks Sani -  Operator Decision Tree Alyssa -  RxJS in Angular: Reactive Development Brooks - Crocs with socks Chris -...

Catalin Ciubotaru joins the show today to share his industry insights and the advantages and disadvantages of using Angular in a startup.   In this episode… Main advantages of Angular Moving quickly with Angular Developer experience and templates Disadvantages of using Angular Hiring with a startup mentality Startups defined Micro front ends and monolithic apps Links Catalin Codes Catalin Ciubotar...