The 2018 angular conference (ng-conf 2018) took place on April 18–20th 2018 at Salt Lake City, UT. The conference featured a large number of sessions, workshops, and speakers from the Angular team and the Angular community.
ng-conf 2018 was live streamed and live transcripted for the home audience, to enjoy the same learning experiences as those of the actual attendees. Not to mention, the whole event was 80s themed, coinciding with the release of the movie Ready Player One which features a lot of 1980s pop-culture references.
We have compiled a list of popular announcements and sessions which were the highlights of this year’s conference.
Ben Lesh introduced version 6 of the ReactiveX library for JavaScript. RxJS is a library for reactive programming using Observables, that makes it easier to compose asynchronous or callback-based code. RxJS6 brings cleaner imports while having a smaller API, a backward compatibility package to update without changing your code, and automatic code migration for TypeScript.
Albert Pai and Eric Simons conducted a session on building PWAs using StackBlitz with Angular. This suite of new developer tools makes building and debugging progressive web apps a lot easier. They run entirely in your browser with no setup or configuration required.
A lot of sessions revolved around NgRx, the RxJS powered state management for Angular applications, inspired by Redux.
Jason Dobry presented a workshop on how to use the Firebase SDK for Google Cloud Functions to improve an AngularFire Chat Web app. AngularFire is the officially supported AngularJS binding for Firebase. This binding lets you associate Firebase references with Angular models so that they will be transparently and immediately kept in sync with the database and with all other clients currently using your application.
Jason also talked about how to use Cloud Functions to send notifications to users of the Chat app, use the Google Cloud Vision API to process images, and use the Google Natural Language API to process chat messages.
The conference also featured workshops on the following
You can have a look at the entire list of sessions and workshops on the ng-conf website.
Why switch to Angular for web development – Interview with Minko Gechev
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