by Lukas Ruebbelke | Oct 21, 2016 | Programming
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...
by Lukas Ruebbelke | Oct 11, 2016 | Angular 2, Programming
Intro 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!...
by Lukas Ruebbelke | Oct 11, 2016 | Angular 2, AngularJS, Programming
Intro 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...
by Lukas Ruebbelke | Oct 2, 2016 | Angular 2, Firebase, Programming
Intro 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. The...
by Lukas Ruebbelke | Jul 5, 2016 | Angular 2, JavaScript, Programming
The Idea 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...