Choosing the “Right” JavaScript Library/Framework for Your Application 2

“What’s the ‘right’ JavaScript library/framework for us to use?”. That’s a question that comes up a lot nowadays given the multitude of choices available and one that doesn’t have a “right” answer of course. I’m fond of saying, “Use the right tool for the right job” when I’m onsite at a company teaching a training class or providing architecture/consulting services. While I certainly have my technology preferences, to force them on someone or on one of the companies I work with would quite honestly be naive and shortsighted. If there’s one thing I’ve learned working in technology over 20 years […]

Angular Playground – Developing and Running Components in a Sandbox! 2

Scenario-Driven Development (SDD) – a term I’d heard little about until my friend Justin Couto encouraged me to check out his team’s Angular Playground tool. SDD didn’t mean much to me when I first heard about it, but I decided to look into Angular Playground more and had one of those “light bulb” moments after I got it up and running. SDD was extremely cool….once I understood what it was all about! Angular Playground is a relatively new tool from the SoCreate team (and former team member Justin Schwartzenberger) that allows you to build and run Angular components in isolation (note […]

Node.js/Express Convention-Based Routes 2

I’ve always been a fan of convention-based routing so I converted a local route generation script I’ve been using with Node.js/Express applications into an npm package called express-convention-routes. The package can be used to automate the creation of Express routes based on a directory structure. What’s a convention-based Express route? It’s a route that is dynamically generated and associated with a “controller” function without having to explicitly code the route yourself (i.e. you don’t write code such as app.use(‘/foo’, router)). express-convention-routes creates routes automatically by parsing a convention-based folder structure such as the one below when the server first starts. […]

Pushing Real-Time Data to an Angular Service using Web Sockets 2

One of the questions I’ve been asked a lot lately in my Angular training classes, at conference workshops, and when working with different companies has been, “How can I push data to an Angular application from the server?”. Pushing data from the server to the client is useful when applications need to display real-time data or when they want to leverage the speed and low-latency benefits provided by TCP/IP Web Socket connections. My answer to this question (up to this point anyway) has been to provide a high-level discussion of how Web Sockets can be used to push data to an Angular […]

Tech 5 Tutorial: Getting Started with Docker

In this Tech 5 tutorial, I’ll walk you through the core concepts of Docker and how you can get started with Docker Community Edition, images, and containers. Getting Started with Docker View All Tech 5 Videos

Video: Interview from ng-conf on TypeScript, Angular, Docker and More

I had the chance to talk with This Dot Media at ng-conf 2017 about TypeScript, Angular, Docker and more. It was a fun discussion that covered a lot of material in 15 minutes. You can view the full interview below. This Dot Media Interview on TypeScript, Angular and Docker The talks mentioned in the interview can be viewed below: Diving into TypeScript Docker: What Every Developer Should Know

Tech 5 Tutorial: Getting Started with the Angular CLI

I’m starting a new tutorial series called “Tech 5” (think “Take 5″…but for tech) that features short, focused, approximately 5-minute videos. Here’s the first one which covers getting started with the Angular CLI. Getting Started with the Angular CLI

“Containerizing” Angular with Docker

I had the opportunity to speak at the AngularMix conference in Orlando about something that I think every developer should learn more about – containers. The talk was titled “Containerizing” Angular with Docker and discussed the following concepts as they relate to Angular applications: Application deployment over the years The need for containers How can Docker containers help? Creating a custom Docker image Moving containers to the cloud You can get to the content shown in the talk at http://codewithdan.me/angular-containers. The code that I demo in the talk can be found at the following links: https://github.com/DanWahlin/Angular-Docker-Microservices https://github.com/DanWahlin/Angular-In120 Check out the talk below. […]

Code with Dan Newsletter #3: AI and Web Components, Cosmos DB, CSS Grid, TypeScript Deep Dive

Edition #3 of the Code with Dan Web Development Newsletter is now out including a new video walk-through! Topics in this edition: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Web Components MEAN Stack and Cosmos DB CSS Grid Deep Dive into TypeScript Import Cost VSCode Plugin React 16 and the rewrite process My new Pluralsight course! Watch my video walk-through of the content covered in this newsletter here: Not subscribed to the newsletter yet? Sign-up below!

New Pluralsight Course: Integrating Angular with ASP.NET Core RESTful Services

I’m excited to announce the release of my new course on Pluralsight titled Integrating Angular with ASP.NET Core RESTful Services! This course follows up my previous course which focused on Angular and Node.js. The code in this new class covers ASP.NET Core 2.0 or higher and Angular 4 or higher. As with my previous course, I’ll walk you through the process of using Angular to call into RESTful services and perform CRUD (Create, Read, Update and Delete) operations in an application to allow a user to view and modify data. However, in this course the services are built using C# and […]