ngAtlanta Conf 2018
as the organisers put it
1st annual Angular conference in Atlanta, GA focused on diversity in technology.
who it's for
Angular developers, frontend engineers, mobile app developers, QA engineers, engineering managers, technical leads, documentation contributors
topics
Angular component testing with Jest; Reactive forms and recursive forms; NativeScript code sharing strategies; ngrx state management patterns; Progressive Web Apps and service workers; Webpack build and optimization; Angular performance tuning techniques; Angular schematics and NG update; Cloud deployment for Angular apps; RxJS observables and marble testing; Web Bluetooth EEG integration demo; Angular Elements as custom elements
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Opening Remarks | Zack Chapple | 03m |
A quick origin story explains a concrete goal and the measurable result: a drive sparks a plan that decides to aim for 50% women speakers and outreach begins… | ||
| Angular as strategy for collaboration and scale | Brad Green | 32m |
Angular reports over a million developers and fivefold faster growth than AngularJS and describes concrete work: moving the codebase onto the Bazel build… | ||
| Modern Testing Strategies for Reactive Applications | Brandon Roberts | 19m |
Claims that Angular component Jest snapshots cut assertion boilerplate by serializing rendered output and surfacing diffs, and that using TestBed with… | ||
| Contributing to the Angular Docs | Kapunahele Wong | 16m |
Documentation lives at angular.io/docs and the docs team breaks large guides into 11 documents with smaller, runnable examples including a lazy loading sample… | ||
| Emotional Intelligence for Engineers | April Wensel | 19m |
Claim: emotional intelligence measurably reduces project failure and burnout by addressing people problems that outperform tool fixes. Method: an emotional… | ||
| Reactive Brain Waves | Uri Shaked | 24m |
A live demo shows a webpage that connects to a Muse headset via web Bluetooth, subscribes to EEG packets (arrays of 12 voltages) and processes them with a RxJS… | ||
| NativeScript and CodeSharing | Nathan Walker | 22m |
Claim: NativeScript plus Angular lets one share real application logic and keep native UI, demonstrated by converting Portable North Pole from three repos to a… | ||
| Breaking Down Reactive Forms | Bonnie Brennan, Sam Rhodes | 19m |
Shows concrete code: replaces repeated FormControl with FormBuilder calls, explains FormControl/FormGroup/FormArray as AbstractControl subclasses and the… | ||
| JavaScript is the new metal the cloud vs the browser | Scott Hanselman | 32m |
Argues that JavaScript becomes a second operating system by showing concrete builds and tradeoffs: a Windows 3.1 emulator running Netscape inside a browser… | ||
| NBA + Angular = Game Detail | Wylesha Rachell | 19m |
A production NBA game-detail web app pairs progressive decoupling Drupal with Angular and uses RxJS + ngrx store for predictable async state, D3 for charts and… | ||
| Logging, and Errors, and Metrics Oh My! | Chloe Condon | 26m |
Logs give timestamps and breadcrumbs for replaying user steps, metrics show spikes and how many are affected, and Sentry actually groups unknown exceptions… | ||
| Dissecting the architectural process for creating reusable Angular components | Rachita Joshi | 16m |
Argues that spending 30 minutes upfront to analyze a design yields a single Angular component that replaces multiple ad hoc modals; demonstrates consolidating… | ||
| Webpack: Your New BFF | Jennifer Bland | 20m |
Covers concrete webpack setup: install with NPM, run via npm scripts, and a local webpack.config.js that emits a bundle to a dist or root path. Explains the… | ||
| Faster Angular Applications | Minko Gechev | 20m |
Runtime slowdowns come from unnecessary recomputation, not the framework: switching to OnPush change detection plus isolating input events prevents whole-tree… | ||
| Beyond the Angular CLI | Mike Brocchi | 21m |
Shows that the CLI already does serving, building, testing and can schematics‑extend generated files — demo prepends a header and appends a footer to a… | ||
| Angular's User Authentication Tool Belt | Kim Maida, Ryan Chenkie | 19m |
Concrete implementation of a JSON Web Token login flow: credentials exchange for a signed token, choice of localStorage vs cookie storage, and attaching the… | ||
| PWA All The Things! | Tara Z. Manicsic | 24m |
Claims that PWAs make web apps more engaging reliable and fast by using push and the Cache API and demonstrates concrete tooling that scaffolds them. Describes… | ||
| The parable of the blender | Randall Koutnik | 16m |
A parable about a blender becomes a checklist: misaligned lid fixed by a one-quarter turn, user error exposed by a blinking red light. UI engineering means… | ||
| Deploying angular to the cloud | John Papa | 32m |
Shows how to get an Angular app from code to a fast cloud site: use ng build --prod to enable the build optimizer and tree‑shaking, run webpack bundle analyzer… | ||
| Recursive Forms, CVAs & Components | Susan Goldblatt | 18m |
Builds a combined date+time component by implementing a Control Value Accessor and wiring a material date picker plus custom time selector into Angular… | ||
| Universal Power Women | Danielle Sheehan, Jason Jean | 16m |
Angular Universal is used to server render an Angular app so the HTML, images, names and rankings appear in view source and the page is fully painted before… | ||
| Try not to lose your marbles with RXJS | Chaela Womack | 17m |
A clear, practical walkthrough of core RxJS: defines observables and observers, demonstrates that next/error/complete actually close or continue streams… | ||
| Smart Angular Elements An Experiment | Carmen Popoviciu | 20m |
An Angular component compiles into a standalone custom element that loads a pre‑trained model snapshot and runs inference in the browser: weights and biases… | ||
| Building VR Interfaces with Angular | Erica Stanley | 15m |
Shows concrete builds: an Angular VR starter that injects A‑Frame into Angular 2 apps, and an ngX WebGL approach that maps Three.js objects to Angular 4… | ||
| 3x3 Fresh Code Delivered, Three Times a Day | Kamini Dandapani | 27m |
Claims delivery pipeline shifts LinkedIn from monthly to three hours from commit to deploy and sustains three deployments per day for web and internal mobile… | ||
| Service Workers & Cows — a love story | Alyssa Nicoll | 30m |
Service workers turn a slow 6 megabit Internet into a usable site by caching assets and API responses; this demo uses Angular’s service worker via npm install… | ||
| The dark side of tuning Angular performance | Dmitriy Shekhovtsov | 22m |
Covers concrete gotchas and measured results: shows how tiny import mistakes inflate bundles (bundle size +200KB), how TypeScript turns async/await into a… | ||
| Machine Learning & Angular Testing w Dozn | Paulina Gallo, Jedi Weller | 23m |
Dozn is an internal beta product built over six months that records DOM interactions in Angular/Ionic apps, visualizes flows with D3, and auto-generates… | ||
| Live App Updates Without The App Store | Sani Yusuf | 25m |
Shows a concrete workflow for pushing web-layer changes of a hybrid app live without App Store reapproval: commit to Git, Ionic Pro builds binaries and… | ||
| It's Not Dark Magic, Pulling Back the Curtains From Your Stylesheets | Aimee Knight | 20m |
Argument: CSS is debuggable like code because the browser builds a DOM → CSSOM → render tree, and the talk walks parsing, layout/paint/composite, and practical… | ||
| Reactive Programming Future Proof Your Code | Tracy Lee | 26m |
Argues that reactive code models everything as sets of values over time and shows concrete proof: uses RxJS inside Angular, creates a Subject and composes it… | ||
| I Don’t Do Non Technical Talks | Kim Crayton | 20m |
Claims that soft skills are technical, quantifiable assets backed by 25 years of experience and doctoral research; explicit knowledge is automatable while… | ||
| State management with ngrx | Simona Cotin | 23m |
Explains concrete ngrx mechanics and payoffs: store.select returns an Observable that components subscribe to, actions describe intent and reducers are pure… | ||
| End the Test Engineer role: how cross functionality leads to a better engineering | Meredith Bayne | 16m |
Argues to remove a dedicated test-engineer bottleneck by teaching cross-skills so developers write end-to-end tests and testers ship code, with concrete… | ||
| Speakers Panel | 51m | |
Panel answers concrete tooling and practice questions: recommends localForage and mentions early IndexedDB support in ngrx libraries, explains using ng new… | ||
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