Unleashing 

Angular

Schematics

@kokkisajee

In a nutshell

Communities

Social Developer

Recognitions

Cloud Solution Architect @Microsoft

First GDE,MCT and MVP from SL

Top stackoverflow contributor

 

I'm Sajeetharan Sinnathurai

@sajeetharan
@kokkisajee
@sajeetharan
@sajeetharan

THE CHALLENGE

"Building Your Own Schematic"

Challenge time

If you don't know what to do

Be like MENDIS

Scalability

Performance

Flexibility

Versatility

"HEROES DON'T ALWAYS WEAR CAPES

SOMETIMES THEY CODE ANGULAR"

  • A framework for a web front-end app
  •  
  • A platform for integrated development
  •  
  • An ecosystem for developers

Angular is......

 

      Developer tools

      Angular for mobile

      Development kit

      Angular elements

Angular as a Platform

@kokkisajee

Angular as a Framework

 

  •       Batteries Included
  •       Easy to learn
  •       Qualified
  •       Full stack for modern web app

@kokkisajee

Angular as an Ecosystem

> 1 million developers

@kokkisajee

Angular as an Ecosystem

> It's all about community

Over 30 annual Angular conferences

7 new events in 2019

800+ Meetups

 

@kokkisajee

Angular for the win, what is new?

Angular CLI & Schematics

 

Material & CDK

 

Angular Elements

 

Angular IVY

 

Bazel

@kokkisajee

Once upon a time..

a sweet little Angular developer...

Yep, this stickman dude

He was happy

Building small apps...

Like normal happy

Then he joined 69x

To work on a large project with large team

"Man, I am just wasting

time doing same shit" #Meh

Then he discovered

Angualr Schematics

Which made everyone's life easy

What is schematics?

A library that is part of the angular devkit that is used to scaffold and generate files.

Why use Schematics?

  • Better Developer Experience
    • Adopt Best Practices
    • Less boilerplate
    • No manual Setup
  • Consistency within Teams/Projects
    • Follow conventions
  • Reusability

Definitions

  • Collection: Set of schematics (Rules)

    • @ngrx/schematics

  • Schematic (Rule): set of actions

    • ​​ng new, ng update

  • Action: transform of the file tree

Pieces of schematics

collection.json — Where schematics are grouped together

 

index.ts — The actual Schematic code

 

schema.json— The Schematic variable definition(options)

 

schema.d.ts — Typedefinition of your schema.json

 

files/— The template files to replicate

Important Terms

AST - Abstract Syntax Tree

WTF?

Ohhhhhhh...

Add Files

Source

Output

Action

Remove Files

Source

Output

Action

Move File

Source

Output

Action

File Changes and Renames

Source

Output

Action

a

b

c 

c'

Transforms Properties

  • Atomic: All or nothing
  • File Transforms are isolated
  • Code Transforms via AST

Your First 

Schematics

Get Ready Folks!

Ready?

Download

Install

https://nodejs.org/en/download/
npm install -g @angular-devkit/schematics-cli
app/my.component.ts

Building your Collection: basic

schematics blank --name=basic
cd basic
npm run build
npm run test

npm link
> usr/local/lib/node_modules/basic -> <path>/basic

schematics --help
schematics .:basic --dry-run=false
schematics --list-schematics
app/my.component.ts

Let's Generate a Hello DevFest

export function basic(options: any): Rule {
  return (tree: Tree, _context: SchematicContext) => {
    tree.create("hello-devfest.html", `<h1>Hello ${options.name} 👋</h1>`);
    return tree;
  };
}
app/my.component.ts

Let's see in Action

$ npm run build
$ schematics .:basic --name="Angular Community" --dry-run
CREATE /hello-devfest.html (37 bytes)
app/my.component.ts

Testing your Collection: basic

ng new test-basic
cd test-basic
npm link basic
> /test-basic/node_modules/basic 
  -> usr/local/lib/node_modules/basic 
  -> /basic

ng config cli.defaultCollection basic
ng g basic

schematics basic:basic
app/my.component.ts

Unit Tests: basic

const collectionPath = path.join(__dirname, "../collection.json");

describe("hello-devfest", () => {
 it("works", () => {
   const runner = new SchematicTestRunner("schematics", collectionPath);
   const tree = runner.runSchematic("hello-devfest", {}, Tree.empty());

   expect(tree.files.length).toEqual(1);
 });
});

Where to go from here?

 

- Explore more on Angular Schematics

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Q&A

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Thank you and have fun!

 

@kokkisajee

Unleashing Angular Schematics

By Sajeetharan Sinnathurai

Unleashing Angular Schematics

In this talk we are going to explore one of the latest additions to the Angular ecosystem. This is angular schematics! We will explore the technology behind the Angular CLI that allows us to scaffold, build, generate and automate repetitive tasks with a simple command. We will explore the different applications of angular schematics with small examples showing its full power.

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