Field notes, primers, and case-tested patterns from Rangle on agentic systems, design systems, frontend, and AI strategy.
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Gone are the days of banks of request/response servers supporting real-time mobile and web applications. It's a bold statement, but today's users demand instant access to data and applications that operate with extreme accuracy. This customer need often entails development teams finding ways to stream gigabytes of information and events worldwide to devices that fit in the palms of users' hands.
Modernize Your Stack
The production release of the newest JavaScript framework happened today. Angular 2 is out of Beta! The official launch is fantastic news for anyone who needs to build complex business applications.
Modernize Your Stack
Online shopping continues to rapidly grow in the U.S. and global markets, yet most retailers are still figuring out how to do business in an omnichannel world. E-commerce driven companies like Amazon, on the other hand, are crushing brick and mortar focused retailers in online shopping revenue. More than half of every $1 of retail e-commerce growth in the U.S. is already earned by Amazon, according to a recent report by Macquarie Research. Traditional retailers are also losing ground in store-front sales across America with Amazon grabbing 24 percent of total retail growth in 2015.
Modernize Your Stack
Unit tests can be an invaluable tool in the developers toolbox. You don't need to be a strict TDD purist to make unit testing worthwhile. Once you get into the flow of writing tests, it can be rather satisfying to watch the Nyan Cat Reporter go across your screen as the number of tests passing increase.
Frontend Development
Update: This post was written just after Angular's version 2.0 release. In that era the Angular CLI project was just getting started. Today they provide a complete build package so you should go over to their site if you want to get started right away.
Frontend Development
Angular 2 RC5 was released was released last week. Looking through the change log of bug fixes and new features shows a lot of progress has been made. However, I experienced a sinking feeling after reading several pages of Breaking Changes about the introduction of @NgModule and changing how we need to bootstrap our applications.
Frontend Development
Because Rangle is a consultancy, we have the opportunity to work with many different clients over a relatively short period. Over the last two years, we've been able to refine a lean discovery process that allows us to rapidly align our teams with our clients and lay the groundwork for establishing clear communication channels on day one. What I realized over this time was something I had learned early in my career as a graphic designer pitching to upper management: the first experience you design is for your stakeholders.
Align Product Strategy
This post was last updated 08/12/2016. One of the nicest changes in Angular 2 is the new template syntax. The declarative nature of the brackets around a property and parentheses around events initially worried many people but it has really grown on me.
Frontend Development
As Redux is becoming more popular within the Angular community, it's not always clear how to bridge the gap between working with Redux and how to make it fit naturally with Angular 2.
Frontend Development
This post currently reflects an earlier version of Angular, and may not be up to date or reflect the current release. Angular 2 has greatly simplified services since Angular 1. In Angular 1, there was a service, factory, provider, delegate, value, constant, etc. and it wasn't always clear when to use which.
Frontend Development
@ngrx/store is a popular store architecture for Angular 2. It promotes one-way data binding for components — this post covers how to compute derived values from the store using RxJS operators like map, scan, and combineLatest.
Frontend Development
This post is about the next generation of asynchronous JavaScript tools and it assumes basic familiarity with promises and callbacks.
Frontend Development