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A new Angular 1.x ES2015 styleguide, the path to Angular 2
Todd Motto
Jun 13, 2016
As many of you know, I created an AngularJS (1.x) styleguide back in July 2014, it’s grown in popularity since inception, and has served many teams...
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Lifecycle hooks in Angular 1.5
Todd Motto
Jun 3, 2016
Lifecycle hooks are simply functions that get called at specific points of a component’s life in our Angular apps. They landed in AngularJS 1.5 and...
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Angular 2 authentication with Auth0 and NodeJS
Todd Motto
Apr 19, 2016
If you’ve needed to add authentication to an AngularJS (1.x) app, you’ll have likely have had some fun and perhaps been lost at where to start. Tra...
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Transclusion in Angular 2 with ng-content
Todd Motto
Mar 22, 2016
Transclusion is an AngularJS (1.x) term, lost in the rewrite of Angular (v2+), so let’s bring it back for this article just concept clarity. The wo...
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Creating your first Angular 2 component
Todd Motto
Mar 17, 2016
This is a beginner level tutorial to ease you into Angular (v2+), although there are many resources online to creating components, these articles e...
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Angular .service or .factory, the actual answer
Todd Motto
Mar 11, 2016
I was giving a workshop earlier this week, and as the workshop came to a close and people were leaving, an attendee asked if I could explain the di...
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Emulated or Native Shadow DOM in Angular 2 with ViewEncapsulation
Todd Motto
Mar 6, 2016
Shadow DOM has long been a talking point on the web, and the Polymer project pushes the proof of concept quite nicely, however, adoption of “raw” W...
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Bootstrapping your first Angular 2 app
Todd Motto
Mar 5, 2016
In this series of four Angular (v2+) posts, we’ll explore how to bootstrap an Angular app, create a component, pass data into a component and pass ...
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$onInit and new require Object syntax in Angular components
Todd Motto
Feb 11, 2016
The component() helper method shipped with so many great features to take us even closer towards Angular (v2+) syntax and integration. Let’s explor...
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Stateless Angular components
Todd Motto
Feb 8, 2016
There were a tonne of interesting changes happening in the beta and release candidate phases of AngularJS 1.5, one of them was the introduction of ...
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One-way data-binding in Angular 1.5
Todd Motto
Feb 5, 2016
Angular is known for its powerful two-way data-binding, but with the new release of AngularJS 1.5, we’ve got one-way data binding (one-directional)...
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So you want to talk at conferences? This is what its like.
Todd Motto
Jan 22, 2016
Talking at conferences looks like an absolute breeze, but is it? No. It’s stressful, nerving, requires a lot of planning and sometimes things go wr...
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