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Walkthrough to upgrade an Angular 1.x component to Angular 2

In this article we’re going to look at upgrading your first AngularJS (1.x) component, a simple todo app, across to Angular (v2+) code. We’ll compa...

Todd Motto

Oct 27, 2015

Superfast Angular use ngModelOptions to limit $digest cycles

The $digest cycle is the critical entity for keeping our Angular applications fast: the faster the cycle, the faster the two-way data binding. Java...

Todd Motto

Oct 24, 2015

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Moving from ngModel.$parsers ng-if to ngModel.$validators ngMessages

Implementing custom Model validation is typically done by extending the built-in $error Object bound to AngularJS form models, such as a simple ``.

Todd Motto

Oct 18, 2015

No $scope soup, bindToController in AngularJS

Namespacing, code consistency and proper design patterns really matter in software engineering, and Angular addresses a lot of issues we face as fr...

Todd Motto

Jul 21, 2015

Being a healthy software engineer

This post is a little off topic today, but after a few tweets of mine a few people have suggested a write up on what changes I’ve made and how they...

Todd Motto

Jun 24, 2015

A better way to scope angular.extend no more vm this

The evolution of Angular Controllers has changed over the last year. As of now, most of us are working with the most recent addition to “Controller...

Todd Motto

Apr 20, 2015

Killing it with Angular Directives Structure and MVVM

In this post I’m going to outline my approach on writing Directives for Angular 1.x releases. There’s a lot of confusion around how and why and whe...

Todd Motto

Apr 17, 2015

ES6 arrow functions, syntax and lexical scoping

ES2015 (ES6) introduces a really nice feature that punches above its weight in terms of simplicity to integrate versus time saving and feature outp...

Todd Motto

Apr 14, 2015

AngularJS one-time binding syntax

Angular 1.3 shipped with an awesome new performance enhancing feature - one-time binding. What does this mean for us Angular developers and the per...

Todd Motto

Dec 12, 2014

Polyfills suck use a featurefill instead

I’m going to dub this a featurefill as the post title suggests, but it’s more a feature-detect-closure-binding-smart-polyfill-api-checker-reusable-...

Todd Motto

Dec 1, 2014

Opinionated AngularJS styleguide for teams

After reading Google’s AngularJS guidelines, I felt they were a little too incomplete and also guided towards using the Closure library. They also ...

Todd Motto

Jul 23, 2014

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Walkthrough to upgrade an Angular 1.x component to Angular 2

Superfast Angular use ngModelOptions to limit $digest cycles

Stay in the loop.

Moving from ngModel.$parsers ng-if to ngModel.$validators ngMessages

No $scope soup, bindToController in AngularJS

Being a healthy software engineer

A better way to scope angular.extend no more vm this

Killing it with Angular Directives Structure and MVVM

ES6 arrow functions, syntax and lexical scoping

AngularJS one-time binding syntax

Polyfills suck use a featurefill instead

Opinionated AngularJS styleguide for teams