My “Angular 2: Getting Started” course on Pluralsight details how to get started with Angular 2. To provide guidance that works on any platform (Windows, OS X, and Linux), the course uses Visual Studio Code as the editor. However, there are many developers that prefer to use Angular 2 with Visual Studio 2015. The biggest […]
Angular 2: Getting Started with a Visual Studio 2015 ASP.NET 4.x Project
My “Angular 2: Getting Started” course on Pluralsight details how to get started with Angular 2. To provide guidance that works on any platform (Windows, OS X, and Linux), the course uses Visual Studio Code as the editor. However, there are many developers that prefer to use Angular 2 with Visual Studio 2015. The biggest […]
September 4, 2015
Use TypeScript to Prepare for Angular 2
If you are developing now in Angular 1.x with an eye toward Angular 2, the best thing you can do is to write your Angular code with TypeScript. Angular 1.x code you write in TypeScript today will look very similar to code you will write in Angular 2 tomorrow (not literally tomorrow!). At a recent […]
August 12, 2015
Automatic Compilation in VS Code for TypeScript
By default, when you use VS Code with a TypeScript project, you need to use Ctrl+Shift+B (or Cmd+Shift+B on a mac) to build the application and transpile the TypeScript to JavaScript. But there is a way to make this process more seamless. To set up VS Code to watch for changes and transpile automatically requires […]
Angular Custom Services in TypeScript: Factory vs Service
In my prior post (http://bit.ly/DeborahK_AngularServices) I outlined the difference between the factory pattern and service pattern when building a custom Angular service with JavaScript. In this post we’ll look at the differences when the Angular custom service is written in TypeScript. Angular Custom Service The basic code to create an Angular custom service in TypeScript […]