Adventures in Angular

Miroslav Jonas joins the Adventure to discuss how to make your applications work on different screen sizes within Angular. Sometimes, you can get away with media queries and responsive design, but in other cases you're better off removing elements from the DOM and only managing and reworking the elements that you care about for your media size. Panel Charles Max Wood Sani Yusuf Subrat Mishra Guest...

Jérémy Bardon joins the adventure to discuss how to reuse code in Angular. Specifically, the discussion covers reusable components and goes into improving code with them. Panel Charles Max Wood Subrat Mishra Guest Jérémy Bardon Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Links Learn advanced Angular features: build the Material tree Advanced Angular: Implementing a Reusable Autocomplete Component Agnosti...

Stephen Cooper joins the Adventure to discuss the ngTemplateOutlet, how it's used and where you'd add it to your application. It allows you to put a template into place where you have the outlet so you can specify what to put into the spot you have the template in and then specify the variables that it uses. This allows you to have a custom template for a specific item. Panel Charles Max Wood Sani...

Lars Gyrup Brink Nielsen joins the Adventure to continue discussing testing Angular and with Spectacular and to finish the discussion on testing routing in Angular. Panel Charles Max Wood Richard Sithole Guest Lars Gyrup Brink Nielsen Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Links Testing Angular routing components with the RouterTestingModule Spectacular by ng workers Lars Gyrup Brink Nielsen – YouTu...

Daniel Kreider joins the Adventure to discuss some of the things that are slowing down your front-end app. He also dives into the handful of things you should look at first in order to make sure that your application is running at top speed. Panel Charles Max Wood Richard Sithole Subrat Mishra Guest Daniel Kreider Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Raygun | Click here to get started on your free...

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. Panel Charles Max Wood Sani Yusuf Subrat Mishra Guest Michael Hladky Sponsors...

Lars Brink joins the adventure to discuss how he tests routed Angular features using the RouterTestingModule. He explains what it is and why it's not as well documented as it could be. The panel then takes him through testing other parts of an application using Spectacular and other tools to make sure that Angular applications behave as expected. Panel Charles Max Wood Richard Sithole Sani Yusuf S...

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...

Chuck dives into the 3 essentials for getting the next successful outcome you want in your career. Whether that's something simple like a raise or something more complex like going freelance, you can achieve it by working on 3 main areas. First, building skills. The most obvious type of skills you'll need is technical skills. However, don't neglect your people skills and your organizational skills...

Tarang Khandelwal found himself in the unenviable position where he needed to be able to dynamically choose which component to load dynamically. He did this by passing in a string key that determined the component that would load in its place. However, given that not all components and component signatures are the same, this is more complex than it seems. Tarang explains to Chuck what this entails...

Chuck explains what he taught Nathan last week when we asked how to get hired at a FANG (Facebook Apple/Amazon Netflix Google) company. Essentially, it boils down to how to build the skills and knowledge needed to pass the interview. How to build the relationships to get into the door and have the interviewer want you to succeed. And how to build the reputation that has the company wanting you reg...

Andrei Gatej joins the adventure and discusses some less well known features of the Angular Router with Charles Max Wood. They walk through some of the features of nesting routes and how to debug issues when your routes don't bubble up the tree the way you expect. Andrei also explains how redirects and router outlets might not have been what Chuck thought they were. Panel Charles Max Wood Guest An...

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...

Chuck was on a strategic call with one of his potential coaching clients talking about cryptocurrencies and realized that this is one of the major reasons that people want to become influencers. Or, rather, that many people aspire to make a difference and/or make money and the best way to do that is to become the person people go to for what you do. So, how do you become the first person people th...

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. Panel Charles Max Wood Guest Richard Sithole...

Charles talks about the things that get developers stuck when they're trying to start their podcast or other influencer channel. He explains how to get around having those things hamper your journey. Panel Charles Max Wood Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Become a supporter of this podcast:...

Charles talks about the things that get developers stuck when they're trying to start their podcast or other influencer channel. He explains how to get around having those things hamper your journey. Panel Charles Max Wood Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/adv...

Charles Max Wood talks about how to build, grow, and benefit from positive relationships within programming. He talks about how he's built genuine positive relationships with hundreds of programmers and how he and others have grown from those relationships. He also explains that you get out of relationships what you put into them. Finally, he goes into how to begin to build relationships by buildi...

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. Panel Charles Max Wood Guest Armen Vardanyan Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day t...

Charles Max Wood discusses several opportunities that came his way early in his podcasting career and other opportunities that have come to other people after only a couple of podcast episodes. He explains why that happens and how you can use this to create more influence as a developer. Panel Charles Max Wood Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redci...

Emma Twersky is a Developer Advocate at Google on the Angular team and runs the GDE program for Angular. She walks Shai and Chuck through the features of the upcoming Angular release expected sometime in May. She also explains some of the process for choosing which features to work on and how things make it into releases of Angular. Panel Charles Max Wood Shai Reznik Guest Emma Twersky Sponsors De...

Charles Max Wood started podcasting because it sounded fun and because he wanted to talk about technology. He learned pretty quickly that it got him access to people who understood the things he wanted to learn. The reasons changed over the years, as Charles explains before he talks about the big payoff he gets now from doing the podcasts. Panel Charles Max Wood Advertising Inquiries: https://redc...

Richard Sithole sits down with Charles Max Wood to discuss his story from growing up in South Africa and the setbacks he experienced as he worked his way into the software industry. He walks through his learning journey and the challenges he faced as he moved from one stage to another to become a successful software engineer in Berlin, Germany. Panel Charles Max Wood Guest Richard Sithole Sponsors...

Jason Weimann started out as an enthusiast of the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, Everquest. After becoming a software developer and building a collaborative community playing the game, learn how he used his connections to get a job working for the company that made the game, even if it wasn't a job working as a game developer and how that led to a career working on one of the most...

Jason Weimann started out as an enthusiast of the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, Everquest. After becoming a software developer and building a collaborative community playing the game, learn how he used his connections to get a job working for the company that made the game, even if it wasn't a job working as a game developer and how that led to a career working on one of the most...