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Chatbots: An Introduction to Conversational UI
When built properly, chatbots offer real value beyond the buzz. This article unpacks what a conversational user interface is and how it applies to chatbots.
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Field notes, primers, and case-tested patterns from Rangle on agentic systems, design systems, frontend, and AI strategy.
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Brendan Neufeld
Finding the Heart in Technology by Prioritizing Privacy and Security
Between Facebook controversy and mass data leaks, headlines have been dominated with questions around technological advances and ethical principles. Users are questioning and demanding the installment of regulations to protect their right to privacy. How does that impact those of us who deliver technical solutions?
"Dangerously Close to Release": What to Expect in Angular 6 and Beyond
Having recently attended ng-conf 2018, where the Angular core team announced that Angular 6 is
Frontend Development
Redux Form Validation with ngrx-forms
Many enterprise applications use complex forms with even more complex validation rules. Out of the box, Angular offers a solution to handle forms including its validation. But even though the solution is feature rich, it can't cover every possible use case. What if we want to count how many fields are invalid in any given section of our application? What if we want to validate a field depending on the value of another component's field?
Frontend Development
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The Biggest Takeaways After Finishing Bridge's Product Design Program
Bridge for Product Designers Cohort 1 applications are now open! What exactly will you get from participating in the program? I spoke with alum from Cohort 0 to hear about their experience, what it's like to challenge yourself in a safe environment, and gaining confidence through practice.
Build Engineering Capability
Evan You's Visit to Toronto
Last January we had the first meeting of our brand new VueJS Toronto Meetup. It was well attended – we had about 150 people. It was clear that the Toronto developer community was excited about Vue. We were so happy with the turnout, we started thinking what else we could do. So, we invited Vue's creator Evan You to come to Toronto!
Frontend Development
Finding Your Gateway to Learning Vue
Learning is a unique experience. It requires relating our previous background to new concepts and patterns. Those experiences are remembered specifically and each person recalls a concept a little differently. I remember a picture of a ball falling with labelled symbols, others might remember the equation, and some may remember the sounds of the physics hall. Recollection can be a little different and thus, learning requires varied approaches.
Frontend Development
Exploring Zero Configuration With Vue
Vue.js is a versatile and approachable framework for building modern JavaScript applications. You can start out by simply adding a script tag with some vanilla JS. Or you can go all-in and create a modern JavaScript application with all the trimmings using a build system such as Webpack. However, the latter requires a fair bit of configuration knowledge so it doesn't quite fit the mantra of easily approachable, especially for people who are just starting to explore the world of modern JavaScript applications.
Frontend Development
Do it with Elegance: How to Create Data-Driven User Interfaces in Vue
Although we usually know what components are needed when building most views within an app, sometimes we don't know what they are until runtime. This means we need to build a screen based on the application state, user preferences, or response from an API. A common case is building dynamic forms, where the questions and components needed are either configured by a JSON object, or where fields change based on the users' answers.
Frontend Development
A Bridge to Help Women Advance Their Careers in Tech
When it comes to technical skills, initiatives often focus on getting more women into the pipeline. For Bridge program leaders Emily Porta and Lindsie Canton, the challenge was not about getting more women into the pipeline, but helping them move further through it. Initially incubated by Rangle.io, the Bridge program is an initiative to
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RxJS, where is the If-Else Operator?
if/else statements are a staple for handling conditional actions. It's natural for most developers to reach for the if/else statement when a decision needs to be made in code. However, in the reactive programming paradigm (e.g. with RxJS) this conditional statement is mysteriously unavailable. How can you code without it?
Frontend Development
Why Write Server Rendered Frontend Apps
Web applications have been evolving dramatically in recent years and many techniques have evolved to help our applications run faster, respond quickly, and load easily. With a wide array of modern development techniques it's easy to overlook all of the options. Server-side Rendering web apps is one such option that has really impressive benefits when implemented in our applications.
Frontend Development