Field notes, primers, and case-tested patterns from Rangle on agentic systems, design systems, frontend, and AI strategy.
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For those still using the JavaScript framework, it's time to migrate your frontend to the modern Angular 11+, in order to avoid security risks and browser compatibility issues once the end-of-life date approaches.
Modernize Your Stack
Sometimes the libraries that we use daily can seem a little bit like magic. By taking the time to understand the fundamental JavaScript features that make these libraries possible, we become better equipped to improve our use of those libraries, applying their functionality in unique and relevant ways.
Scale Design
JavaScript and its ecosystem are evolving at a rapid pace. As new frameworks, libraries, and features get added JavaScript fatigue can start to set in.
Modernize Your Stack
The core concept of a Web Component is similar to that of components in frameworks such as React, Angular or Vue. It is a reusable UI building block that encapsulates all the HTML, CSS and any JavaScript-based logic required to render it. The big difference is that instead of relying on a specific JavaScript framework it leverages technologies natively provided by the browser so that your Web Components are framework agnostic. The technologies that Web Components leverage from the browser are features such as Custom Elements, Shadow DOM, ES Modules and HTML Templates.
Scale Design
Learning development on the JavaScript stack can sometimes be quite frustrating (even with tools like Node or NVM). This is especially true when you manage different applications with different environment dependencies (or different versions of node, npm etc.) for each app that you're developing. You may have some legacy apps that you don't touch very often, but you want your host machine to have the latest and greatest when you start your next project. That's understandable and we've all been there before.
Frontend Development
Are you a web developer interested in Artificial Intelligence (AI)? Want to easily build some sweet AI apps entirely in JavaScript that run anywhere, without the headache of tedious installs, hosting on cloud services, or working with Python? Then TensorFlow.js is for you!
Frontend Development
How you manage the state of your application is important, and libraries such as redux and ngrx have been widely adopted in the JavaScript community for this task. Even though state management has come a long way, most people will quickly notice common patterns being repeated in their reducers and start to cry foul over the boilerplate that seems to be required. This was something I noticed too, but I started to adopt a pattern of Higher Order Reducers to help abstract away the repetition.
Frontend Development
Vue.js is an up and coming framework in the the front-end Javascript ecosystem. Experienced software developers must consider how Vue is built in order to understand how it scales. Moving forward we will explore the internals of Vue and see what the constraints are for building fast, scalable applications.
Frontend Development
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
Most top-performing modern companies rely on web-based software to operate efficiently while providing value to their customers. These applications often contain custom and intricate business logic that gives businesses an edge over their competition.
Modernize Your Stack
If 2016 was the year of JavaScript fatigue then 2017 was most certainly the year of convergence. Most JavaScript frameworks have converged towards using similar tooling and concepts.
Frontend Development
AngularConnect, Europe's largest Angular conference, took place on November 7 and 8 in London, England. As the premium sponsor, Rangle had the honor of being the keynote presenter during the second day of the conference. Our CTO, Yuri Takhteyev, took the stage to share the thrilling story of how far both Angular, the leading open source JavaScript application framework, and Rangle had come in the past four years.
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