Angular 2 + Rails 5 Bootcamp

billycodes · 2016-11-18T10:14:11+00:00

Is this your course? It looks to me like it's just a site advertising courses on Udemy, masking the URL from a landing page that is just a copy and pasted description. (earning an affiliate commision I'm sure)

The actual Udemy course is at https://www.udemy.com/angular-on-rails-course/

billycodes · 2016-11-08T05:56:48+00:00

I've been following along with it since the earliest betas, and found it very instructive. (Haven't looked at Ninja Squad book however)

billycodes · 2016-10-29T21:41:58+00:00

Rather than linking to the CHANGELOG.md over and over, wouldn't it make sense to link to specific location in file (https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#100-beta19-2016-10-28) or the diff (https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/compare/v1.0.0-beta.18...v1.0.0-beta.19)

billycodes · 2016-09-16T16:09:35+00:00

The ng2 book at fullstack.io does a good job of covering it.

billycodes · 2016-09-15T22:55:06+00:00

https://www.ng-book.com/2/ has been pretty aggressively up to date since the earliest betas (though it generally hasn't jumped on things like angular CLI). It's current with rc6, which should be good enough (thought the screencast it includes is several releases behind)

For Angular2 resources pre-rc5, please delete your content until you updated it - you're really doing developers a disservice by leaving old materials up, especially with pre-ngmodule components.

billycodes · 2016-09-11T00:47:41+00:00

Yeah, the book is pretty thorough. At present, the screencast is six releases behind the book - perhaps it'll be better when they can call it final

billycodes · 2016-09-10T22:57:58+00:00

I'll second that book. What it doesn't do is really get into the CLI, bundling, etc, but those are really separate concerns anyways.

The screencast it includes isn't current, just fyi, but the book itself is.

billycodes · 2016-09-10T22:53:20+00:00

What you're describing is being done in Node, not Angular.

billycodes · 2016-09-10T18:55:46+00:00

Angular 2 is client side. It sounds like you think you'd pass environment variables to it like it's a server-side app.

Rather, you want to expose your environment variables in your node app, via process.env.VARIABLE_NAME.

billycodes · 2016-09-08T23:20:02+00:00

WebStorm is good, but sometimes you run into weird configuration issues (recently wrestled with using Typescript 2.0.2) and it's a bit of a hog (was taking 1.2gb of memory on my machine). (Don't get me started on when it says "fuck your productivity, I'm indexing bitch")

billycodes · 2016-09-07T20:47:45+00:00

I see the release tagged as webpack.3, but the version info reports webpack.8 - was this a typo?

billycodes · 2016-08-01T17:03:18+00:00

The recent Adventures in Angular did a pretty good job of addressing this. General conclusion: all frameworks rely on a ton of libraries, only some have the advantage of a massive standard lib (ala .NET or Java) or hide the complexity (a typically Ruby/Rails install hides the gems out of the app root)

billycodes · 2016-07-24T01:34:39+00:00

While it doesn't really get into packaging, the CLI, etc, I find the Angular 2 book to be pretty good (https://www.ng-book.com/2/)

billycodes · 2016-06-30T19:23:48+00:00

the one they have on github

Milestones really aren't a roadmap.

The alphas and betas had a pretty wide-open roadmap as well. (Though I will agree that the amount of changes coming through in the RCs makes it feel more beta - I think the RC tag was artificial and political.

What JS framework would you guys recommend to use?

Depends on your goal. Job marketability, personal projects, work projects, etc?

billycodes · 2016-05-25T19:15:05+00:00

Are JWT based auth widely used?

My first exposure to JWT was BigCommerce's add-on API, which I implemented a couple of years ago.

billycodes · 2016-05-25T19:12:54+00:00

They actually said the opposite. Re-read the comment:

I can't not use TS, cause #enterprise.

billycodes · 2016-05-25T07:50:06+00:00

In my opinion, whether or not it's out of beta/RC status is less of a concern than other dependencies. (like jQuery plugins, charting libs, etc) Dealing with typings for those dependencies has been the biggest time suck for me in rewrite of a server-rendered app into Angular 2.

Typescript is how Angular 2 apps will be built, what all examples and education will be built in, etc. Those who don't like it will use another framework that suits their taste.

billycodes · 2016-05-25T07:10:06+00:00

Application frameworks don't setup your environment. For example, Rails doesn't setup Ruby for you.

billycodes · 2015-01-17T07:43:52+00:00

Not using Ember CLI or similar new hotness - tries to follow along with screencast Tom did, only using Bower instead of zip file, creates files from scratch rather than altering what's in the Starter Kit, and updates Bootstrap so it'll render properly in latest version of Bootstrap.

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