Adventures in Angular

Armen Vardanyan is a Google Developer Expert for Angular, and Frontend Team Lead at Volo. He returns to the show to discuss his article, " Using NgRx Packages with Standalone Angular Features ". He talks about how to use NgRx packages with standalone features. Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club starting with Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top En...

Charles, Lucas, and Subrat take on this week's panelist episode as they tackle all about Custom Form Components. Lucas starts off the episode by explaining different methods on how you can effortlessly and with ease create custom form components. Subrat also shares his own insight on some other techniques for creating forms depending on how complex your form is. Moreover, they discuss integrating...

Walid Bouguima is a Software Engineer at Hilti Group. He joins the show with Chuck, Lucas, and Subrat to discuss his article, " Angular Clean Http Service Methods: Handle Your Backend Communication With Ease". He explains his goals and reasons why he created this method and what advantages it may bring to developers in the Angular community. Moreover, the panel shares their own perspective and som...

Marek Panti is an Angular developer at UNIQA Insurance Group AG. He joins the panel to talk about his article, "Angular Standalone Components". Standalone components simplify the process of creating Angular applications. He explains how he was able to come up with the idea for his article. About This Episode Advantages of Standalone Components Maintaining Angular Apps in the long run On YouTube St...

Amal Ayyash is a UX Designer and Front-end Developer. and her current main focus is Angular. She joins Chuck and Lucas to discuss her article, “RxJS-based state management in Angular”. She starts the show off by explaining the reason why she chose to use RxJS to create state management instead of using NgRX. She also gives advice to other developers, encouraging them to use their own frameworks or...

Chuck welcomes Lucas to the show as a regular host of Adventures in Angular. They begin by discussing Angular 15's most recent updates and what benefit it might have for the current Angular community. Lucas also offers his perspective on the new tools and what makes him excited to use them.  About this Episode All the new features of Angular 15 Advantages of Directive composition API Pros and Cons...

Each encounter teaches us a lesson. Every setback is a victory. What Can You Do To Take Control Of Your Career? Chuck and Subrat join the show as Chuck takes the lead in sharing his past work experiences and his inspiring journey towards his road to success. He also talks about his current plans for Top End Devs such as conferences, book clubs, meetups, and many more! Sponsors Chuck's Resume Templ...

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Lucas Paganini is a content creator and developer. Together with his team creates educational content about web development through articles and YouTube tutorials. He has been working on Angular since 2017 and is the CEO of a remote company called Unvoid.  He joins Chuck on the show to talk about his article, "Automatically Unsubscribe Observables on Destroy".  About this Episode Managing Observab...

Armen comes back to the show to talk about one of his articles, “Change Detection without Change Detection". Change detection functions by helping rerender the UI when data changes. Armen joins Chuck and Subrat as he shares the importance of using his Change Detection technique to improve performance rather than using the built-in one. Topics discussed Change detection and how it works How do you...

In Angular apps, remembering user-preferred settings is an excellent way to provide a good experience for the users; you can save data in the user’s browser using the localStorage object, which provides methods for working the key-value data.  Today on the show, GDE Angular expert Dany Paredes shares his insights about localStorage, how to learn about this API, and knowledge to build in Angular to...

Maina Wycliffe, Google Developer Expert in Angular, joins the show today to talk about his weekly newsletter called “All Things Typescript” and his various content and production strategies.  Similarly, Charles also shares his perspective about how he has grown TopEndDevs. In this episode… Typescript newsletter Delivering concepts Creating content for posts RSS feeds Resource lists Ideal newslette...

Maria Korneeva joins the show today to share her approach on how to proxy HTTP requests in Angular, including use cases and various strategies to make proxying simplified and useful to your Angular workflows. In this episode… Use cases examples  Proxying a request from localhost to the remote backend service Using the fake back end before real implementation Effortless switching between environmen...

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 Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top...

Today on the show, Charles and Subrat interview Miroslav Jonas to discuss various approaches related to monorepos, linting and CI.  Enjoy this broad conversation as the panel shares their industry insights on these various topics and strategies you can start to implement today. In this episode… What are monorepos? Migrating and linting engines Nx and monorepos Utilizing plug ins  Integration libra...

Do you want to level up in your career?  Do you want to become a top 1% developer?  Today on the show, Charles provides three simple steps you can implement today to help get you there. In this episode… Have a side project Learn something every day Commit code every day Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Picks Charles - Top End Devs | Conferences Charles - Top End Devs | Meetups Charles...

If you are testing an Angular application, then at some point, you will be required to test asynchronous behavior.  Today on the show, guests Stephen Cooper and Mona Peirov share about how you can validate your internal models with async Angular testing and integrate AG Charts into your workflows. Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links Understanding async tests in Angular JavaScript C...

Meetups are a remarkably easy and convenient way to connect and network with others.  Today on the show, Charles shares his various strategies on how to make the most of Meetups, whether to network to find a better job, learn something new, collaborate with others, get counsel about your career or current work problems, or simply enjoy the human connection and community with others. Sponsors Top E...

Nx is a smart, fast and extensible build system with first class monorepo support and powerful integrations, and it has a powerful core and a rich plugin ecosystem.  Today, Charles interviews Angular expert Lars Gyrup Brink Nielsen to discuss the benefits of the Nx build framework. In this episode… Nx fundamentals Benefits and downsides Nx workspace generation Distributed task execution (DTE) Futu...

One of the upcoming future features in the Angular framework will revolve around “Standalone Components” (SC) vs. “Optional NgModules”.  When SC makes NgModules optional, it depreciates their value in the long run and could lead us to determine their necessity.  Given that Angular is an enterprise framework, can we have modulars in an angular application or should we eliminate this?  Angular exper...

Charles Max Wood is the master architect behind Top End Devs, which includes 11 unique podcast shows for DevOps.  Today on the show, Subrat interviews Charles on how to launch, grow, and monetize a podcast show from scratch.  He shares his process, the strategies to launch, various tools, sites, and apps, how to build an audience, and how to monetize a show. Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top En...

Tomas Trajan, Google Developer Expert for Angular and Web technologies, joins the show today to discuss NgRx and best practices.  They deliberate the main integrations for NgRx with Angular, various implementation strategies, and more.  This is an exciting conversation you won’t want to miss! In this Episode… NgRx overview NgRx best practices NgRx and Angular implementation  Sponsors Top End Devs...

Hossein Mousavi shares his methodology to angular form by presenting his template driven approach vs. reactive form approach. They also discuss the differences between form control, form group, and form array, and how you can build upon the elements within Angular through modular patterns and object-oriented project paradigms. Finally, they discuss how the Angie directive allows you to create web...

Do you want to become a 10x top end developer? Do you want to take your career to the next level? Charles provides a 7 step roadmap to get you there:   1) Learn something new everyday.  a. 10-15 minutes, learn something new that can help you move the needle forward in your career.  b. Make 1% incremental progress everyday will compound to 37x better yearly. Everything adds up.  2) Commit code dail...

Sometimes your development skills lead you into a role other than full time code sherpa. If you're wondering which ways you can take your career to have some new adventures, listen to this episode with Karl Hughes, Subrat Mishra and Charles Max Wood. Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links draft.dev Alternative Career Paths for Software Engineers How to start freelance technical bloggi...