Intro
I really truly love the Angular community. I am talking about a group that continually pushes me to try new things and get out of my comfort zone. I am still amazed that I can get in front of such a passionate group of folks and share my ideas while doing some pretty zany things in the process. I had the amazing privilege of presenting with the infamous Shai Reznik at AngularConnect 2015, and it was such a fun experience!
We wanted to do an over the top parody of some other very memorable keynotes, and I apologize that we may have given the impression that we were actually giving a real keynote. Apologies for the confusion! Sorry, mom!
Underneath the jokes, there was a really serious point that Shai and I wanted to make. Now is an amazing time to be an Angular developer because we have better tooling and a better language; this is the foundation for a better framework which makes it easier than ever to build better things faster.
I have included a resource list that will come in handy for new developers checking out Angular 2. Check out our wacky and fun presentation and if you like it be sure to leave Shai a love note in the comments!
Be sure to check out the awesome and serious keynote by Brad Green, Igor Minar and company at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxjgUjVpe24
The Presentation
The Slides
Resources
Better Tools
Babel
https://babeljs.io/
Gulp
http://gulpjs.com/
Webpack
https://webpack.github.io/
https://webpack.github.io/docs/usage-with-gulp.html
Better IDE Support
http://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/features/
https://code.visualstudio.com/
Better Language
TypeScript
http://www.typescriptlang.org/
Types
http://www.typescriptlang.org/Handbook#basic-types
Interfaces
http://www.typescriptlang.org/Handbook#interfaces
Decorators
https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/What’s-new-in-TypeScript#decorators
Better Framework
Angular 2 Performance
http://info.meteor.com/blog/comparing-performance-of-blaze-react-angular-meteor-and-angular-2-with-meteor
Angular CLI
https://github.com/angular/angular-cli
Thank you very much for posting this talk. I am PHP developer. I am worked with jQuery for several years. Do you think its a good idea to start learning Angular.js as its going to a lot of changes. Please can you recommend me some good book or website to up and running with Angular 2. Thank you very much.
Hi Irfan —
I think it is a GREAT time to start learning Angular in general. Angular 2 just hit beta and the API is pretty stable at this point. Egghead.io is a great resource that I highly recommend.
Also, stay tuned as I am working on an Angular 2 post at this very moment.