Angular

Many words have been written about headless Drupal, that is adding a separate system to manage the front-end user experience. This can be a complicated affair! But it can be managed and made simpler by leveraging tools that are familiar to you. Consider Angular.

The release of Angular caused quite a stir back in the fall of 2016. Like many, I jumped in and started learning the new framework, and then ... returned to my day job. In just two short years, Angular jumped from version 2 to version 7! So where to begin tackling the upgrade path?

Everything I see about Angular 2 has a footnote attached to it. Well two really. First, it's not complete, and nobody's sure what it'll look like until it's done. Two, it often appears alongside the word Typescript. What's that?

Well it's a version of Javacript that provides 'type', i.e. this …

We like our networks fast and always on. Streaming video, instant pictures, audio, games, you name it. It seems almost effortless to consume it all.

The reality behind things that are so fine, so easy, is that it takes an awful lot of work to get all the details just right. I know how true that is …

Getting hands on data is crucial to developing any new web project. Incomplete data sets, small data sets, even bad data sets are preferable to nothing. Without mock data like this, we cannot answer many important questions. How will data be structured? What sort of queries will be required? What …

Great fear surrounds Angular 2. More than one person, with eyebrows raised, has told me, "You know it's totally rewritten from Angular 1." Well, plenty of code has been rewritten without end-users even noticing. In this case, users will notice. And that's a good thing. First good thing is the …