John and Chris have a special guest on today. We are interviewing Tom. Tom is a developer at Miles Technologies and has been developing software using the Breckenridge template we've been talking about so much. He helps share a 1st hand perspe

Component APIs

Jul 30th, 2021 51m 25s

John and Chris talk about an option for controlling components by creating an API and outputting that. This allows for complex control from a parent component to a child component.Quick Tips:mentorship programs and their valuebash aliases

Practical State Management

May 27th, 2021 1h

John and Chris talk state management in Angular applications. The format is a train-me episode where John plays the part of the audience, learning about state management from Chris. The focus is on practical uses of light state management.Q

Lazy Loading v2 - Eager to Lazy

Jan 20th, 2021 1h 3m

John and Chris take another look at lazy loading in Angular, as they discuss lessons learned while converting their codename:Breckenridge Angular template from Eager Loading to Lazy Loading. In this episode they go over analyzing the code gene

Dynamic Forms part 3 of 3

Dec 15th, 2020 51m 26s

Join John and Chris on an epic journey, as they tackle a topic so big, it just can't be contained in one episode. It all starts with a simple idea... "why do we have to keep building out forms manually? I wish we could automate this part of w

Dynamic Forms part 2 of 3

Dec 1st, 2020 55m 34s

Dynamic Forms part 1 of 3

Nov 24th, 2020 57m 2s

RxJS v2 - a Real Scenario

Aug 4th, 2020 1h

Let's take the next step with RxJS! This time, John and Chris tackle a real scenario as they dive into the next level of using RxJS in Angular. Using an Order Summary page as an example, this episode covers ways to consolidate API calls using

Cypress

Jun 23rd, 2020 53m 46s

John teaches Chris all about Cypress for end to end testing in Angular. In this episode we try something new where John explains cypress.io and e2e testing in Angular to Chris, who has never worked with it before. The result is a quick tutori

Directives

Jun 2nd, 2020 52m 46s

Directives are everywhere and are super powerful, but also a bit more complicated to create than components. In this episode, Chris and John cover many of the inner workings of directives inlcuding how to create them and some more advanced ide

Clean Components and Services

May 19th, 2020 59m 18s

In Angular applications, clean components help to keep your code readable and straightforward. In this episode, Chris and John cover how to critically review your components to know when they are too complicated, and some ways to go about refa

Component Orchestration

May 6th, 2020 53m 8s

This week John and Chris use an example of building a forum to talk about how to conditionally create the components you need without the use of ngIf statements. The discussion includes the steps to get there, why you would want to do it this

Testing

Apr 21st, 2020 1h 10m

This week it's all about Testing. Specifically Unit Testing in Angular. John and Chris cover everything from why you want to test your code and how to get started with testing, including some gotchas along the way.Quick Tips:Using Dynalist

Authentication

Apr 7th, 2020 1h 4m

This week John and Chris talk about Authentication in Angular. They discuss everything from how to guard your routes in your Angular app to methods for modifying the http requests to include auth tokens.Quick Tips:Image and video capture in

Angular Libraries

Mar 19th, 2020 57m 57s

Angular Libraries are where you turn your modules into npm packages that can be used in other Angular applications. John and Chris dive into this subject going over concepts and terms. Then talk about how to build out and structure your libra

RxJS

Feb 28th, 2020 58m 50s

Chris and John tackle RxJS. Starting with the basics including terminology and concepts and going in depth on use cases, operators, pipes, and some of the tips and gotchas.Quick Tips:Fork a GUI for gitWho's afraid of Regex :)Links:https

Change Detection

Feb 28th, 2020 41m 24s

Chris and John explore Angular's Change Detection. Starting with the basics or terminology and concepts and going in depth on how it works, performance concerns, and tips.Quick Tips:Windows Key + VObject.assign()Links:https://www.thisdo

Lazy Loading

Feb 28th, 2020 36m 43s

Chris and John tackle Lazy Loading in Angular. Starting with the basics including terminology and concepts and going in depth on how it works, performance concerns, and tips.Quick Tips:Prettier config filesImpostor SyndromeLinks:https:/

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