Roger Tipping and I wrote an Angular love song for our Mischief Maker presentation at ng-conf 2017 and it was an absolute blast creating something with one of my best friends. I love what happens when you take two separate disciplines and see what you can create at the intersections. A huge shout out to Read More

Here are the presentation slides and code samples from my talk at ng-conf 2017. The primary goal of this talk was to be entertaining and so there is definitely a "proof of concept" element in the code. With that said, the code samples are a great place to start if you want to learn how Read More

Writing unit tests is very much like flossing. We all agree that we should floss (and write tests) but it is really easy to deprioritize given the general level of discomfort that comes with it. Angular takes the edge off of the proposition of writing tests by providing us with some incredibly handy utilities that Read More

I am a huge fan of the simplicity and power that redux brings when dealing with state management and communication. Redux, as a software pattern, gives us a single place to store our application state (the store) and a single place to mutate our application state (the reducer). Every entity within your application model generally Read More

The Observable stream is a very scary subject (pun intended) in the frontend universe. Many developers have heard of them, and about how awesome they are, but get totally overwhelmed swimming in the sea of RxJS operators. I recommend that new developers set the RxJS aside for a moment and focus on the basic observable Read More

I am generally a positive person that endeavors to say nice things about people and frameworks. In the broadest sense, I love Angular, and it has been an amazing tool to build some really cool things. Angular 2 has exceeded my expectations in a lot of ways. But! There has always been some cognitive dissonance Read More

Angular 2 ushered in the apocalypse when it was announced a few years ago and it looked nothing like the current version of Angular 1.x we were using. The initial gap between the two versions seemed to be like standing on opposite sides of a canyon with the obvious question being "How in the world Read More

Here are the presentation slides and code samples from my talk at Angular Connect 2016. Code samples are below and feedback is welcome. Some of the examples, especially the game is demo quality only and I quite possibly did some very silly things in there. RxJS Presentation Examples Step-by-Step Async JavaScript with RxJS Introduction to Read More

Writing an Angular 2 application in ES5 is a tricky subject, and I have to be careful about the tone I adopt when talking about this approach. Using a modern build system that leverages ES6 or TypeScript with live reloading, scaffolding, linting, deployment options, pre-processors, test runners, etc. is a superior course of action and Read More