AiA 186: ngUpgrade in the Real World with Sam Julien

Panel:

Charles Max Wood
John Papa

Special Guests: Sam Julien

In this episode of Adventures in Angular, the panel talks to Sam Julien about ngUpgrade in the real world. Sam is an Angular teacher and developer in Portland, Oregon and has spent a lot of time working through the issues with ngUpgrade. He has also launched a course called Upgrading Angular JS. He talks about the process behind upgrading and the two phases and four building blocks that are present in this process. They also touch on the fact that Angular JS is very different in the real world versus in theory.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Sam intro
Do you see steady traffic with needing ngUpgrade?
Angular JS is popular in the enterprise community
How do people get started with upgrading?
Update to a current version of Angular JS
Building blocks to upgrading
TypeScript and Webpack
The most important things to be doing
npm
General process – 4 building blocks and 2 phases
Determine your approach
Different approaches available for upgrading
Pick a route and work from the bottom up
Angular AOT mode
Upgrading is overwhelming but is manageable
Don’t rush the process
Create a reasonable timeframe
You can’t always use the CLI for these projects
Target those who feel stuck
What are the biggest problems that you’re seeing?
And much, much more!

Links: 

Angular JS
Angular
ngUpgrade
Upgrading Angular JS
TypeScript
Webpack
npm
Angular AOT mode
@SamJulien
SamJulien.com
@UpgradingAJS
Upgrading AJS Medium
Sam’s GitHub

Picks:

Charles

Star Realms

John

ng-AI

Sam

Donut.js
Glitch
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott