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In this episode of Adventures in Angular the panel interview Loiane Groner about her Portuguese content creation. She starts by sharing her story and how she got into content creation and why she creates content for developers in Brazil. She gives advice on how to get started creating blog content and shares strategies for pushing out posts and organizing post ideas.  Moving on to video content, the panel share editing, and recording tips. Loiane shares recommendations for editing and recording software. They advise keeping videos short and to be consistent in creating content. Loiane answers questions about revenue and analytics. She also gives advice on dealing with internet trolls.  The episode ends as Loiane dives into the struggles of learning to code as a native Portuguese speaker in an English based coding language. She explains how translation works and shares opportunities for people to help. The Angular community’s translation efforts are outlined, including translating documentation and their work

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In this episode of Adventures in Angular Charles Max Wood interviews Ire Aderinokun at JAMstack conf 2019. Ire works for Buycoins, a cryptocurrency exchange for Africa. She gave a lightning talk, “Headless Chrome & Cloudinary for progressively enhanced dynamic content on the web”. After giving a brief overview of her talk to Charles, Ire defines progressive enhancement for the listeners.  Walking through how progressive enhancement works, she explains how Headless Chrome and Cloudinary helped her with the project she shared in the talk. Ire and Charles consider the blindspot that developers experience because they work on high-end devices and how using progressive enhancement helps those who use lower-end devices. Ire shares her experience with JAMstack and explains how progressive enhancement works with JAMstack. Charles shares his experience using JAMstack. The episode ends with Ire giving advice and resources to help get started with progressive enhancement.  PanelistsCharles WoodGuest:Ire Aderinokun A

In this episode of Adventures in Angular the panel interviews Stephen Cooper about his recent talk at Angular Connect. His talk was about ngTemplateOutlets. Stephen answers the questions of the panel about ngTemplateOutlets and explains how and when to use them. He starts by explaining the difference between component outlets and template outlets.  Aaron Frost, Frosty, asks Stephen to walk through how to make a ngTemplate and explain what it is useful for. The panel considers the various use cases they would use this for. Frosty wonders why he would use a ngTemplateOutlet instead of a bunch of ngIfs. Stephen explains when it would be wise to use ngIfs and when it would be better to use ngTemplateOutlets.  The panel discusses ngComponentOutlets, Stephen explains how they relate to ngTemplateOutlets and how they give you another level to reusing components. He overviews the best way to use ngComponentOutlets and warns listeners of the tricky parts.  Stephen shares the best times to use ngTemplateOutlets and ove

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 Markup, which outlines the best practices of a JAMstack architecture. During her explanation of JAMstack and the benefits of a microservice architecture, she references Smashing Magazine and their switch to JAMstack.  Tara overviews each letter of JAM and how they affect JAMstack. J or Javascript refers to the use of a JavaScript language, like Angular and others. Tara lists the API’s one might use for the A in JAM. The panel discusses the M or Markup. Markup serves up fast and safe prerendered content. Tara explains what prerender means and it makes the content safer and the sites faster. Tara then overviews the enti

In this episode of Adventures in Angular the panel has fun interviewing David East about Firebase. David starts by sharing what it was like at the recent Firebase Summit in Madrid. There were so many announcements they had a tough time fitting them all into the one-hour keynote address.  One of the cool new features announced at the Firebase Summit is Firebase Extension, David describes it as serverless without any code. The panel discusses this feature and how it works. Another cool feature announced is Google Analytics for Firebase. This allows you to use Firebase tools in conjunction with Google Analytics. The panel considers the smart things you can do in your app with this feature.  The next feature the panel discusses is Remote Config which allows you to store data and then pull out that information on demand. If you use the Google Analytics for Firebase you can target specific data for certain audiences. David explains that before this could only be done with native apps. He also explains how in doing

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 project perspective.  The first chapter walks through setting up Angular, installing Angular CLI and Angular console. After the set up is complete he walks readers through a very basic flashbase application. Zama explains how this first chapter is geared toward beginners. In his book, Zama shows users how to use the whole platform. He covers PWA and how to create brand new projects from scratch.   The panel asks him about his unique project perspective strategy for this book. Each chapter of Zama’s book walks the readers through a different project, unlike most technical books that walk readers through one project introduc

In this week’s episode of Adventures in Angular the panel has fun interviewing Narwhal rocks star and NgRx expert, Wes Grimes. Wes starts by sharing how he got started in NgRx. In a previous company, Wes was the lead architect for a project that had need of a state management solution, so it was his job to figure out how to use NgRx. While figuring it out he created a structure for using NgRx and used that structure to write a blog article about best practices for NgRx.  This blog article took the world by a storm and now has over 200,00 views. People are now building libraries and courses based on his article. The panel has a little considering the possible searches that lead people to his article. Jennifer Wadella shares some of the weirder searches that have led people to her posts. After their fun, the panel tries to get back on track.  This article thrust Wes into the world of helping people understand NgRx, what he calls a mystical machine. He explains how this article was only the beginning of learning

In this week’s episode of Adventures in Angular the panel interviews Shlomi Assaf, talking about ngrid. After some playful banter about the naming of Ngrid, Shlomi shares the reasons behind building ngrid. The company he was working for at the time need a grid, he tested nggrid but wanted something completely opensource, so he built one. He also explains that nggrid caused some problems in their project which made him want something more customizable. Shlomi explains how much work is needed on the application and asks listeners to contribute to documentation or other areas of the project. Shai Reznik endorses Shlomi as one of the smartest peoples he knows and tells listeners if they want to learn from someone who knows a lot about angular to step up and join this project.  The panel asks about the challenges Shlomi faced while building this app and what it was like using the CDK. Nggrid has a how company working on it but ngrid has only Shlomi. Shlomi explains that the CDK had a lot of the building blocks nee

In this week’s episode of Adventures in Angular the panel interviews Manfred Steyer, the creator of ngx-build-plus and angular architecture expert and consultant. Ngx-build-plus is a way to extend how the CLI is doing its build. Manfred explains how ngx-build plus works in two different ways. The first is that it provides a partial webpack configurations file that merges with the webpack configuration that the CLI is using. The second, it provides a plugin with free methods that influence the CLI.  Manfred consults with companies on architecture, he explains that the main problem when people take a simple application and make it complex, big, with a lot of entities and forms. This makes it difficult to manage in the long term. He borrows ideas from domain-driven design to help these companies structure their applications.  Strategic domain-driven design is one of the main strategies he uses when structuring an application. Strategic domain-driven design is subdividing a big application into subdomains, then m

Episode SummaryIn this episode of Adventures in Angular Tomas Trajan, an angular elements expert, breaks down how to use angular elements for the panel. Tomas explains that angular elements are great for very specific use cases.  Tomas starts by describing a scenario with a large enterprise with tens of developer teams and hundreds of developers, they have a few choices on how to organize their applications. The first option is a messy monolith. The second option is using monorepos and Nx. The final option is to use a multi-spa solution. Tomas explains how the multi-spa solution works. This solution consists of 80 stand-alone applications, on the same page and share components. Tomas outlines the common problems when using the solutions and how using angular elements combat those problems. The panel moves on to considers how you know if you should use angular elements in this way. Tomas provides two questions to ask yourself when deciding whether or not to use angular elements. The first question is, are you

Episode Summary Victor Savkin, former angular team member and now cofounder of Narwhal Technologies Inc or Nrwl, returns to Adventures in Angular to teach the panel about monorepos. Victor starts by explaining what monorepos are and why you might need one. Monorepo style development is when multiple projects developed in the same repository and the tools used to manage code between those apps.  There are many benefits to using monorepos as Victor explains to the panel, such as sharing code between apps. Monorepos help you see what's going on in reality as well as helps you take control of the structure of your code. It also allows for more interesting deployment strategies. Victor talks briefly about his time at Google, working on the toolchain and using a large monorepo. After the panel asks about the costs of using a monorepo strategy, Victor explains that there are many perceived costs that are actually false or easily overcome. The first perceived cost he tells the panel about is how people get confused a

SponsorsSentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan Angular BootcampAdventures in BlockchainCacheflyPanelJennifer WadellaBrian LoveAaron FrostAlyssa NicollSummaryAddressing the recent twitter fire surrounding the JavaScript community, the panel shares their opinions on social awareness. They begin by discussing a time they inadvertently offended others and what they learned. They consider the best way to respond if you do offend someone; the correct way to apologize and learn from your mistake. The importance of taking responsibility and sharing a desire to learn is discussed.  The panel considers how the community can be proactive in creating a safe space while being inclusive of everyone. They discuss resources for learning about sexism, racism and not feeling guilty as a victim.LinksThe Missing StairThe Gift of Fearhttps://twitter.com/TatianaTMac/status/1165781104122634240  https://twitter.com/why_is_js_mad/status/1164603312915791873https://www.facebook.com/adventuresinangularhttps

SponsorsSentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small planAngular BootcampiPhreaks PodcastCacheFlyPanelAaron FrostJoe EamesAlyssa Nicoll Joined By Special Guest: Brandon RobertsEpisode SummaryJoining the panel in this episode is Brandon Roberts, a Senior Angular Engineer at Narwhal Technologies. Brandon was previously on the Angular Team at Google.Brandon talks about what he is working on currently at Narwhal. They have recently launched more support for React and Web Components and Brandon talks about his role in that project.The panel then asks when Narwhal will release support for Knockout and jQuery. They talk about cases when to use Nx and when to use Angular CLI. They then talk about the effort required to learn Nx.They then talk about Narwhal's support plans for NgRx 9. LinksMAS 091: Brandon RobertsNgRx: A Reactive State of Mind (Two Day Workshop)https://www.ng-conf.org/2019/speakers/brandon-roberts/Brandon Roberts – MediumBrandon (@brandontroberts) | TwitterBuilding Full-Stack Applic

SponsorsSentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small planReact Native RadioCacheFlyPanelAaron FrostJennifer WadellaAlyssa NicollJoe Eames Joined By Special Guest: Sam JulienEpisode SummarySam Julien, Technical Community Manager at Auth0 joins the panel to talk about upgrading AngularJS to Angular. Sam has a video course on transitioning from AngularJS to Angular and consults with companies that are in the process of upgrading. Sam and the panel share their upgrading experiences and tips on what they have learned. They also discuss how to convince companies that do not want to upgrade to Angular and agree that sometimes it's in the best interest of the company to present the financial benefits of the upgrade rather than the discuss technical aspects.The panel also talk about other reasons to upgrade from AngularJS, the most important of which is the announcement of AngularJS end of life on June 30, 2021. Tune in to learn about the biggest "got you" Sam had on an upgrade project.LinksMAS 043:

SponsorsSentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small planAngular BootcampCacheFlyPanelAaron FrostShai Reznik Joined By Special Guest: Hans LarsenEpisode SummaryHans Larsen, Team Lead of the Angular CLI at Google has left Google to pursue other opportunities. The panel meets with Hans to talk out about his time at Google Angular team and some of the challenges they faced. They then talk about Hans' future plans as well as some of the fun times they had at the Angular conferences.LinksHans Larsen LinkedInHans (@hanslatwork) | TwitterAngular is About Love!webpackPicksShai Reznik:16 PersonalitiesAaron Frost:NOVA: Black Hole Apocalypse | NetflixHans Larsen:Become a parentHave a drink with someone you loveSpecial Guest: Hans Larsen. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

SponsorsSentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small planAngular BootcampCacheFlyPanelAaron FrostAlyssa NicollShai Reznik Joined By Special Guest: Craig SpenceEpisode SummaryCraig Spence was a developer at Trade Me in New Zealand before he moved to Sweden to join Spotify. Trade Me is New Zealand's biggest website and it is similar to eBay where people buy and sell lots of different items. Craig talks about his experiences migrating Trade Me from AngularJS to Angular and the challenges they faced. One of the tips Craig has for the audience is when faced with a problem it is better to ask for help from those who have been in similar situations before, rather that attempting to solve it alone. The panel also agrees that developers should stop writing in AngularJS and make the decision to move forward. Craig recently started working at Spotify in Sweden and is dealing with a challenging bug that has lasted for over 13 days.LinksCraig's LinkedInCraig's TwitterTrade MeSpotifyAngular DenverPicksAa

SponsorsSentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small planAngular BootcampCacheFlyPanelAaron FrostJoe EamesShai ReznikJennifer WadellaEpisode SummaryMuch reaction has been received for the tweet about the 10x developers and this week the panel outlines the checklist a 10x developer has to meet in order to be considered a 10x developer (a developer that outputs 10 times more code than the rest of the company). From always having their screen background set to black to their generally toxic attitude that is disliked by the rest of the team, 10x developers are generally a reason for others to quit their job. The panel discusses why managers continue to keep these people on even though they affect the overall team production negatively and how they should be dealt with.Linkshttps://twitter.com/skirani/status/1149302834619248640https://twitter.com/mike_conley/status/1149851483241947137PicksShai Reznik:PubConfJennifer Wadella:PubConfThe BacheloretteJoe Eames:Emotional IQAaron Frost:OnePlus 7 ProOb

SponsorsSentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small planAngular BootcampCacheFlyPanelAaron FrostAlyssa NicollShai ReznikJoe EamesBrian Love Joined by Special Guest: Minko GechevEpisode SummaryMinko from Angular team at Google talks about what's new in Angular v8 and what has changed. Some of the exciting new features include differential loading, dynamic imports for lazy routes and CLI workflow improvements which end up being a large perfomance improvement. The panel comments on the fact that it was effortless to migrate from Angular 7 to Angular 8, and Minko also mentions that they had received feedback that the how to start tutorials were not very clear and so in Angular v8 they made an effort to re-do the tutorials.LinksAngular Versioning and Releases - AngularMinko's TwitterMinko's BlogMinko's GitHubhttps://caniuse.com/#search=modulesPicksAaron Frost:Stranger Things Season 3Angular DenverJoe Eames:Bonnie Brennan and her daughter SamShai Reznik:Dev Ed Podcast: Making Learning FunOzarkCo

SponsorsSentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small planAngular BootcampCacheFlyPanelAaron FrostJoe EamesJennifer WadellaBrian LoveAlyssa Nicoll Joined by Special Guest: Leonardo ZizzamiaEpisode SummaryLeonardo is a Senior Software Engineer, Technical Lead at Coinbase a digital currency exchange headquartered in San Francisco. Leonardo and the panel talk about Perfume.js. Over the past 5 years the Chrome team has been working on standardizing user timings for the web. One of the most recent metric tool the Chrome team has built is the Performance Observer which is an experimental API that observes user metrics. Leonardo explains how Perfume.js helps users so they don't have to worry about not complying with web standards in terms of user metrics. Leonardo then gives some guidelines to the web standards and explains what is considered in the normal range and what needs to be improved.LinksLeonardo's Twitter CoinbaseCryptoKittiesOkurrr2svgPerfume.jsSpill The Tea- definition D&Diesel Pick