I was lucky enough to get a ticket to ng-cong in Salt Lake City this year. It was a great conference, much different from the tech conferences that I’m used to.

Key Take Aways

• Angular 2 is going to be fast
  • The RC file size has been reduced from 170k to 50k.
    
  • Angular CLI will support pre-compilation of templates which will help with both file size and time to initial load.
  • Lazy loading on routes will further help with load times
  • Angular Universal will allow pre-rendering of angular sites on the server (supports Node and asp.net via node)
  • Angular 2 change detection is fast!
• Angular 2 is going to be everywhere
  • Technologies like ionic and native script will allow angular 2 to run on mobile devices
  • Mobile.angular.io provides tooling for better progressive web applications
  • Angular Universal will allow angular to run on the server
  • Desktop apps can be created with Electron and Angular 2
• Angular 2 is going to have a huge ecosystem
  • Angular Material is going to provide a rich UI component suite
  • 3rd Party components are coming (Wijimo, Vaadin, Kendo, Ng-bootstrap and others)
• TypeScript all the things
  • TypeScript is going to be the best way to write angular code
  • Consider using TypeScript for any js code

Tips

• Talk with fellow attendees, some of the best information you will get will be from other attendees
• Pre-download workshop files the wi-fi doesn’t handle 100 npm install at once very well
• Go early or late for food avoid the lines
• I found it interesting that most presenters were using a Macbook Pro (Apple), angular (Google) and VScode and typescript (Microsoft). It’s nice to see everyone playing nice together.

Conclusion

Overall I thought this was a very well run conference, my only negative feedback would be that a few of the talks seemed to be duplicating content which doesn’t really make sense in a single track conference.