Contents tagged with ES6
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Getting Started with ES6 - Using Classes
In a previous post I introduced how ES6 can be transpiled to ES5 using Traceur or Babel. By using transpilers you can write“modern” code and leverage features found in ES6 today while still allowing the code to run in older browsers. In this post I’m going to dive into classes which is one of the shiny new features found in ES6.
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Video: Building a Single-Page App with Angular, TypeScript, Azure Active Directory and Office 365 APIs
I had the opportunity to speak at the BUILD 2015 conference in San Francisco with my friend Andrew Connell and had a great time! We gave a talk on Angular, TypeScript, Azure AD and Office 365 APIs and I also gave two “Express” talks on TypeScript. It was super fun to meet new people and hang out with everyone at the conference. I even had the opportunity to check out the upcoming HoloLens device which was super cool! I was heading up an elevator to a meeting and a member of the HoloLens team approached me and asked if I had some time to do some “HoloLens Testing”. Let’s just say that I was a bit late for my meeting – I wasn’t going to pass up the opportunity to check out HoloLens in person.
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Introducing the AngularU Conference
In late 2014 my good friend Peter Kellner approach me with a big idea – an idea that immediately caught my attention. He wanted to explore collaborating on a new conference idea that would highlight Angular and other “hot” Web development topics and wondered if I’d be interested in working with him and another friend of his named Kevin Nilson (who is also a good friend now) on a full-scale conference. I’ve been involved with chairing a lot of conference tracks over the years but never been the driving force behind organizing an entire conference. While the idea was definitely exciting it was also a little scary – at least initially.
After talking more with Peter and Kevin I decided to jump in and we’ve been working hard to put on a top-notch conference called AngularU (short for “Angular University”) that will be held in San Francisco from June 22 – 25, 2015. I’m really excited about the conference and thought I’d discuss some of the key reasons in this post. -
Getting Started with ES6 – Transpiling ES6 to ES5 with Traceur and Babel
In the first post in this series I introduced key features in ECMAScript 6 (ES6), discussed tools that can be used today to transpile code to ES5 so that it can work in today’s browsers, and listed several resources that will help get you started. Before jumping into the first official ES6 feature (that’s coming
in the next post) I wanted to write a step-by-step walkthrough that covers how to get the Traceur and Babel transpilers working with Gulp (a JavaScript task runner). I’m also going to sneak in a little TypeScript as well since it’s another option. By getting these tools in place you can start writing ES6 code, convert/transpile it to ES5, and then use the generated code in older browsers. Going that route lets you take advantage of the future of JavaScript right now without having to wait around until all of the browsers fully support ES6.
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Getting Started with ES6 – The Next Version of JavaScript
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My Thoughts on AngularJS 1.3 and 2.0
New to AngularJS? Check out the AngularJS in 60-ish Minutes video to get a jumpstart on using the framework to build Single Page Applications (SPAs). Also check out my AngularJS JumpStart and AngularJS Custom Directives video training courses.
