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.