The Mastering the Arcane Art of JavaScript-mancy series are my humble attempt at bringing my love for JavaScript to all other C# developers that haven’t yet discovered how awesome this language and its whole ecosystem are. These articles are excerpts of the super duper awesome JavaScript-Mancy book a compendium of all things JavaScript for C# developers.
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that adds type annotations and, thus, static typing on top of JavaScript.
If you are a C# or Java developer you’ll feel right at home writing TypeScript. If you are a JavaScript developer or have a background in dynamic programming languages you’ll encounter a slightly more verbose version of JavaScript that results in a safer and better developer experience. Either way, you’ll be happy to know that everything you’ve learned about JavaScript thus far also applies to TypeScript, that is, any JavaScript is valid TypeScript.
This is the fourth and final part of the super series on Angular and Firebase. If you missed any of the first, second or third parts then I encourage you to take a look!
Welcome back!
For the last article of this series we’re going to do something really cool, we’re going to transform baby-gotchi into a Progressive Web App.
Progressive Web What?
Progressive Web Apps or PWAs are next generation user experiences for the web. They bring all the awesome stuff we’ve come to learn and love with native apps like great performance, offline capabilities and push notifications while keeping the best characteristics of the web: its infinite reach, low-friction and openness.
This is the third part of the super series on Angular and Firebase. If you missed any of the first or second parts then I encourage you to take a look!
Hi! Hello! Hola! Gooood day! Welcome back to the Angular and Firebase series that helps you bring your most cherished and coolest ideas to life!
In the last part of the series we built baby-gotchi, a web application that helps you become a better dad by taking care of a fictional baby:
We used the super duper awesome Angular cli to bootstrap our app, scaffold our components, services and pipes, and to build our app ready for production. We also took advantage of Firebase Realtime database and AngularFire2 to store and sync our data across all of our clients. Finally we used Firebase Hosting and the Firebase cli to deploy our app into the cloud and made it available for the world to use.
In baby-gotchi, a parent can give birth to a child and then take care of her: feed her when She’s hungry, cuddle her when She’s in need of some love, etc. You can also play God, control the baby and make her feel hungry or sleepy. But it’d be much cooler and more reflective of reality (and it’d be better for your soul) if the status of the baby changed over time by itself. That is, as time passed, the baby would be feeling hungrier, more sleepy, more in need of cuddles on her own terms, just like a regular baby.
So that’s what we are going to do! In this part of the series, we’ll learn how to use Firebase Cloud Functions to implement that functionality, a baby lifecycle that will update all of the baby status indicators: sleepiness, shittiness, hunger and life as time goes by.
This is the second part of the super series on Angular and Firebase. If you missed the first one then go take a look!
Welcome to part two of this series of articles that aim to help you bring your awesome ideas to life. In this installment of the series, I bring you lots more of Angular and Firebase goodness while we build the rest of baby-gotchi, a baby simulator to help you become a better dad.
Good morning traveller! Today I want to appeal to the builder in you, the tinkerer, the dreamer. The person who loves coding, building stuff from scratch, sometimes to solve a problem, sometimes just because it’s goddamn fun.
How often do you have a new idea for a cool side project?
You’re in the shower, and all of the sudden, you have this amazing idea… but somehow you never find the time to do anything about it. And it slowly withers and dies and ends up in the lonely cemetery of ideas…
Does this sound familiar to you? How many of you have ideas that are withering abandoned in the darkest corner of your brain?
A while back I read a book - Die Empty - in which pages I read something like the following (I am mostly sure it was this book… 80%… 60%?):
The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never fulfilled,
the books that were never written,
the songs that were never sung,
the inventions never shared,
the cures never discovered...
And this is super sad, and very true. We live in a society that pushes us towards mindless consumption and we forget to exercise one of the most giving and fulfilling skills we have as humans: creating.
And that sucks!
Fear not! And don’t be saddened either! For today I’m going to show you a friction free way to bring your ideas to life with Angular and Firebase.
