Mar 22 2021
The Angular Masterclass

I’m pleased to announce that the wonderful people at Educative.io have turned my book, Getting Started With Angular, into a course. The course is called The Angular Masterclass . The course contains 147 lessons and should take 20 hours to complete.

Course Aims

The main aims of the course are to teach you:

  1. The architecture of a typical Angular app and how components and modules are used to build up the sections of an Angular app
  2. Explore Services, Dependency Injection, Observables and RxJs
  3. Learn about NgRx
  4. How to test and package your application ready for production

Course Overview

In this course, you will use Angular to build a fully-functional sales team contacts application.

To start things off, you’ll learn about Angular architecture and how components and modules are used to build sections of your application.

In the second section, you’ll dive into routing and navigation, dependency injection, and observables.

In the last part of this course, you will get hands-on experience managing the state of your app as well as testing and troubleshooting. Throughout the course are three different assessments which will be used to test your understanding of the material. By the end, you will have a great new application for your portfolio, as well as a better understanding of how to design an Angular application from scratch.

The team at Educative have done a great job setting out this course, the illustrations are fantastic and really help convery the points I was trying to make in the book.

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Feb 22 2021
Writing Maintable Angular

I’ve recently given my first talk on the great NgHuston YouTube channel, the topic of my talk was ‘Writing Maintain Code in Angular’.

The main idea of my talk is how we can structure our Angular code in order to make it maintainable for the long term use of the application. In the talk I go through two example apps, both with the same functionality, a book search app, but in the code I’ve tried to show how you set out your folders and components, lead to more maintainable code. That as the application grows it it easier to add new features and maintain when bugs arise.

If you want to see a video of my talk you can, here’s a link to the recording of my talk .

The main points of my talk

In the talk I tried to put across a series of points that are important in writing maintainable Angular code. These points are:

  • Make use of modules to structure your code into small sections
  • Use descriptive property names and function names
  • Make use of methods to write more descriptive code
  • Use Types to create a domain specific language describing the data of the application
  • Write tests that allow you to refactor your code to make it more maintainable
  • Refactor as you go, keeping the code tidy, manageable and readable

In the talk I expanded on these points and try to show through the code examples how to write the example code so it is more maintainable over time.

Here is a link to my slides from the talk.

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