50 ngAir - TypeScript Deep Dive with Alex Eagle and Blake Embrey

TypeScript Deep Dive with Alex Eagle and Blake Embrey

Sure, you can write Angular 2 in ES6 with Babel or even ES5, but most developers that try out TypeScript with Angular 2 never look back. Alex Eagle is on the Angular core team at Google and has been doing a lot of work to make sure Angular 2 works well with TypeScript. Blake Embrey is the creator of ts-node and a huge TypeScript enthusiast. Even if you have concerns about typing in JavaScript, listen to this episode to get the low down on why TypeScript rocks and how it is going to help you to build awesome apps in Angular 2. 

 

Picks

•                Alex Eagle

http://www.typescriptlang.org/Playground

https://basarat.gitbooks.io/typescript/content/

[TrumpScript]

(https://github.com/samshadwell/TrumpScript)

[Broccoli]

(http://broccolijs.com)

[ts-node]

(https://github.com/TypeStrong/ts-node)

•                Olivier Combe

Links:

Managing state in Angular 2 applications by Victor Savking: http://victorsavkin.com/post/137821436516/managing-state-in-angular-2-applications

Tips:

PhantomJS 2.1 has been released (1 year after 2.0), it’s time to upgrade

•                Jeff Whelpley

Tips:

Try TypeScript

 Picks:

▪                                                    Angular Air episode 50!

▪                                                    [Learn Angular Universal on Read the Source]

▪                                                    (http://hangouts.readthesource.io/hangouts/angular-universal/)

[Nathan Walker and Angular CLI changes for 3rd party libs]

(https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/pull/135)

[Front end dev resources]

(https://github.com/dmytroyarmak/frontend-dev-resources)

Patrick Stapleton

Tips:

Provide feedback on problems you ran into for open-source projects.

Picks:

[Typings with Blake Embrey]

(https://plus.google.com/events/c6sv2k75vi9q8fj0g0gkuqbt69o)

[Learn TypeScript free workshop by Blake Embrey]

(https://github.com/TypeStrong/learn-typescript)

•                Ari Lerner

Tips:

Picks:

[The Barisieur]

(http://www.joshrenoufdesign.com/new-gallery-5/av7fqhie9y5ptdbxr9s4i8rb65irqo)

[Activitaté]

(http://www.withings.com/us/en/products/activite

[Withings Aura]

(https://www.withings.com/us/en/store/details/70035401)

[Modern Romance]

(http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Romance-Aziz-Ansari/dp/1594206279)

Blake Embrey

Tips:

If you have issues, create issues, but remember to keep things actionable

Learn TypeScript (or another typed language) and think about where else you could be applying type system semantics

Picks:

Reading everyday, before bed

Currently reading: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6065215-the-strain 

 Forgot to mention on the show, but meetup! http://www.meetup.com/hello-world-sf/

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