Panel:

Charles Max Wood

John Papa

Special Guests: Sam Julien

In this episode of Adventures in Angular, the panel talks to Sam Julien about ngUpgrade in the real world. Sam is an Angular teacher and developer in Portland, Oregon and has spent a lot of time working through the issues with ngUpgrade. He has also launched a course called Upgrading Angular JS. He talks about the process behind upgrading and the two phases and four building blocks that are present in this process. They also touch on the fact that Angular JS is very different in the real world versus in theory.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Sam intro

Do you see steady traffic with needing ngUpgrade?

Angular JS is popular in the enterprise community

How do people get started with upgrading?

Update to a current version of Angular JS

Building blocks to upgrading

TypeScript and Webpack

The most important things to be doing

npm

General process – 4 building blocks and 2 phases

Determine your approach

Different approaches available for upgrading

Pick a route and work from the bottom up

Angular AOT mode

Upgrading is overwhelming but is manageable

Don’t rush the process

Create a reasonable timeframe

You can’t always use the CLI for these projects

Target those who feel stuck

What are the biggest problems that you’re seeing?

And much, much more!

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Picks:

Charles

John

Sam