Debugging Angular 2

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In my opinion Angular 2 is a great framework to work with. But as a developer, you know that you will also need great debug features in order to have a good experience developing.

There are multiple IDEs you can use to develop in Angular 2, but for this article I will talk about Visual Studio Code – VSCode. It has great typescript support and the auto-suggest knows about the angular 2 components.

Typescript is good when developing, the learning curve is smooth, but be aware that browsers don’t know how to run .ts files. This is why you will have to “transpile” your code. Transpiling is the process of converting your code from typescript to javascript(es6).

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Angular 2.0 – real-time components using Firebase

In earlier post we saw how to build a hello world web component using Angular 2.0 beta.
Now we will create a real-time component using Firebase. We will have 2 components:

  1. adding elements in the list component
  2. listing all the elements component

To build the first component for adding elements in a list, we just need a simple HTML with 2 fields and a button, and some small JS method to send these fields to Firebase.

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A short introduction to Angular 2.0

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Although the internals of Angular 2 are still changing, the beta version of the API was released in December 2015 and you can use it to build your apps. The components are better isolated in Angular 2 and if the notions of properties and events are well applied, its simpler to write truly reusable components that can be understood just by looking at an html template.

Browser components

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