Getting your sh*t done with
Angular CLI
 

meet.js Krakow, 18.05.2017

Rafal Rumanek
@ Codewise

such command

much wow

Agenda

  • Glossary

  • CLI features + demo

  • What's next for the CLI?

  • Quizzes in the meantime,
    stay focused!

Glossary

Angular - the other framework (previously known as Angular 2)

CLI - Command Line Interface

JiT - Just in Time (compilation) - compiling your templates in     browser.

AoT - Ahead of Time (compilation) - compiling your templates during the build. You won't need to ship the compiler to the browser.
 

Tree shaking - dead-code elimination, or more precisely, live-code import

Why would I need CLI?

Webpack, tests and AoT configuration can be really painful.


Importing, declaring, providing proper pieces
is a place where you are likely to make errors

So what it actually does?

  • Scaffolding

  • Generating

  • Building

  • Serving

  • Testing

Scaffolding

  
  
  npm install -g @angular/cli

  ng new meetjs-demo --routing

Scaffolding

 

 

lookup in tree for the closest module


 

Generating


  ng generate c components/spinner \
  --spec=false --inline-style

Generating



    ng generate m team

QUIZ TIME

much prize

wow

 

It's easy!
aaaand deep linking works too!


 

Lazy loading

{
    path: 'XXX',
    loadChildren: 'MODULE_PATH#MODULE_NAME'
}

 


'Staying on the shoulders of the giants'



 

Testing



   ng test

   ng e2e

 


ng serve
 

1. Styles compiling

2. Typescript transpilation

3.  Bundling

4. Assets optimization

5. Live reloading (via websockets)

6. Code spitting

 


 

Build & serve

 

ng serve --prod
 

1. Styles compiling

1.5 AoT compiling

2. Typescript transpilation

3.  Bundling

4. Assets optimization

5. Live reloading (via websockets)

6. Code spitting

 


 

Build & serve



portable dist folder <3

 


 

Build & serve



    ng build

    ng build --prod --sourcemaps=true --output-path=dist.prod

source-map-explorer



    npm install -g source-map-explorer
  

    source-map-explorer dist/vendor.xxx.bundle.js


Exports webpack.config.js

 

 

You can't use some of the commands from
CLI anymore :(


...and you might miss some of the cool updates


 

ng eject

CLI 1.x:

  • better tree shaking
    (~20% decrease in size)

  • faster AoT

  • more descriptive errors
     


 

What can we expect? 

CLI 2.x:

  • custom blueprints

  • custom plugins for CLI

  • AoT be default in dev?

@ngtools/webpack

QUIZ TIME

much prize

wow

AngularJS

Conclusion

+ generating your code can save you a lot of silly mistakes
+ setting up your project, including tests is something you finally don't have to worry about
+ for custom builds - check out the webpack plugin

+ you get build improvements for free*

Conclusion

- no custom blueprints (yet)
- no plugins for CLI (yet)
- adapting existing project/build requires work

Further reading

Thank you <3

Questions?

PS. We are hiring

codewise.com/careers

Angular CLI - meet.js 18.05

By Rafał Rumanek (truti)

Angular CLI - meet.js 18.05

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