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So you want to talk at conferences? This is what its like.

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...

Todd Motto

Jan 22, 2016

React.createClass versus extends React.Component

Two ways to do the same thing. Almost. React traditionally provided the React.createClass method to create component classes, and released a small ...

Todd Motto

Jan 4, 2016

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Stateless React components

React v0.14.0 introduces “stateless” components, which takes a more functional approach to creating chunks of JSX and templates. In my previous art...

Todd Motto

Dec 28, 2015

Creating a tabs component with React

I have to say, this is my first proper component built in React. I tried it out last year and absolutely loved it. Feel free to rip this component ...

Todd Motto

Dec 28, 2015

Angular modules, setters, getters and bootstrapping

The first place you’ll usually start in any Angular application or module library, is creating a module. Let’s walk through the syntax differences ...

Todd Motto

Dec 21, 2015

Using Controller $filters to prevent $digest performance issues

Filters in Angular massively contribute to slow performance, so let’s adopt a sensible way of doing things, which may take you an additional ten mi...

Todd Motto

Dec 15, 2015

Resolve promises in Angular routes

Phase 1 of our Angular careers involved $http inside a Controller. Phase 2 involved abstracting into a Service and calling the Service inside a Con...

Todd Motto

Dec 14, 2015

Directive to Directive communication with require

Communication between Directives can be done in various ways. When dealing with Directives that have a hierarchical relationship we can use Directi...

Todd Motto

Dec 14, 2015

Dynamic Controllers in Directives with the undocumented name property

Assigning Controllers to Angular Directives is the norm when building out components. But what if you wanted to dynamically assign a Controller to ...

Todd Motto

Dec 12, 2015

Angular component method back-ported to 1.3

AngularJS 1.5 is soon to release the component() method which I wrote about last month. I decided to back-port the functionality from the new featu...

Todd Motto

Dec 7, 2015

Exploring the Angular 1.5 .component method

AngularJS 1.5 introduced the .component() helper method, which is much simpler than the .directive() definition and advocates best practices and co...

Todd Motto

Nov 13, 2015

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So you want to talk at conferences? This is what its like.

React.createClass versus extends React.Component

Stay in the loop.

Stateless React components

Creating a tabs component with React

Angular modules, setters, getters and bootstrapping

Using Controller $filters to prevent $digest performance issues

Resolve promises in Angular routes

Directive to Directive communication with require

Dynamic Controllers in Directives with the undocumented name property

Angular component method back-ported to 1.3

Exploring the Angular 1.5 .component method