Panel:


Alyssa Nicholl
Joe Eames
John Papa
Ward Bell


Special Guests: Martin Jakubik

In this episode, the Adventures in Angular panel talk with Martin Jakubik and he has been working with Angular for the last three years. He has one large and one small Angular application, which the panel talks about.

Show Topics:

2:31 – Alyssa likes to be called...

2:40 – Alyssa: You have a large and small application – what makes it small? Is it the user-base?

2:56 – Martin: It is one module out of ten or twenty components.

2: 59 – Panelist: Only 1 Angular module?

3:47 – Panelist: Joe went off on how much he hates modules. I am sorry JP we had to throw that in that?

4:04 – Joe: I am an anti-modulist.

4:11 – Martin: Just one module.

4:21 – Panelist: When you are building an application with one module – start us from the beginning, what does it look like?

4:38 – Martin: It is actually quite special. It has to run in an iFrame, and all it does it allows the user to add into the experiment.

5:05 – Alyssa: Is it like a CMS?

5:10 – Martin: It is like Google Optimize. The application is quite simple and every component is in that one module.

5:36 – Panelist: How many do you have?

5:44 – Martin: There are less than 10 services and 20 components at most.

5:57 – Panelist: I feel personally, I feel like that I a decent size?

6:11 – Panelist: That makes perfect sense. If there is no routing or nothing...

6:40 – Panelist: Asks a question, and clarifies the question to Martin.

7:48 – Panelist: It is nice and clean.

7:55 – Panelist: I do, too.

8:08 – Alyssa: How new is it?

8:15 – Panelist: June/July?

8:32 – Martin: I am using the new style.

9:01 – Panelist: I am leery of using it.

9:13 - Panelist: I would like to clarify. When you mention you have 20 components...

9:40 - Panelist: Do it.

10:34 – Panelist: Webpack. Can you explain what that is and how you solved it?

10:57 – Martin: I don’t think I did anything special. I wanted to know how it works. I used webpack and used their configurations. Several months into the project then I...

11:40 – Panelist: Why did you decide not to use the CLI? This is like an Iron Man thing.

11:55 – Panelist: I think it’s a pain thing.

12:05 – Martin: I wanted to know how it works.

12:32 – Martin: I started from scratch, I can’t remember.

12:44 – Panelist: Whenever I use webpack it makes my head spin.

12:56 – Martin: The application was very simple. I was doing more blogging.

13:45 – Panelist: It is doing more configurations on the fly for you. It’s wonderful if it works and if it doesn’t work then I don’t know what you’d do.

14:17 – Martin: That’s why I did it, so I can appreciate all the magic.

14:30 – Panelist: How big is big?

14:36 – Martin: Enterprise level. 100 different components.

15:06 – Panelist chimes in.

15:13 – Panelist: That is complex.

15:28 – Panelist: let’s add more modules to add to the complexity...

15:55 – Alyssa: When you took your app to the CLI was that hard?

16:06 – Martin: That took me one whole day. The module is so simple that’s why.

16:32 – Panelist talks about this topic.

17:39 – Panelist asks a question.

17:53 – Panelist: Fixing any problem ... ever work on tooling help people if they have their stuff in the right file name?

18:18 – Martin: I used Cypress.

18:58 – Panelist: Under what situation would you recommend it to anyone? Do it your own webpack configuration?

19:23 – Martin: Only if...

19:51 – Alyssa: What if you wanted to add a watermark to each file, do you have to stop adding the CLI?

20:13 – Panelist: So am I...what are the boundaries, I don’t know what they are? I’m curious.

20:41 – Panelist: Are you asking, Alyssa, how you would customize it?

21:09 – Panelist: You won’t loose all the features that you get. You now elected out of that place where they had it; webpack configurations.

22:12 – Panelist: What happened to it ejecting? How do you get it out of there?

22:26 – Good question! I have – I like to play with scissors.

22:43