AiA 233: Getting Serious with Schematics with Tomas Trajan

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Panel

• Alyssa Nicoll
• Aaron Frost
• Joe Eames
• Shai Reznik

Special Guest: Tomas Trajan

Episode Summary

In this episode of Adventures in Angular, the panel interviews Tomas Trajan, software developer and Google Developer Expert for Angular from Zurich, Switzerland. Tomas explains what Angular Schematics is and how it simplifies a developer’s life. He goes through cases where Angular Schematics would be great to use. He explains some of the Schematics terminology such as rules and trees. He also explains that Angular CLI uses Schematics as well and that the panel is already using it when they are using Angular CLI. The panel then talks about the setup time and effort  it takes to start a project before they can actually code especially when there are other teams involved. Tomas explains that part of this setup effort could be avoided if companies with multiple developer teams used Schematics.Tomas then describes his own experiences using Schematics. As a final note, Tomas talks about some of the areas where Schematics could be improved.

Links

• Tomas' GitHub
• Tomas' Medium
• Tomas' Twitter
• Tomas' LinkedIN
• Tomas Trajan – Angular In Depth
• Tomas Trajan - DEV Community
• Tomas' Blog Post: How to Create Your First Custom Angular Schematics with Ease
• https://www.facebook.com/adventuresinangular/
• https://twitter.com/angularpodcast

Picks

Alyssa Nicoll:

• https://twitter.com/schwarty
• Schwart Stories by @Schwarty

Shai Reznik:

• NG - BE - YouTube
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Joe Eames:

• Airtable

Aaron Frost:

• Narwhal Technologies Inc

Tomas Trajan:

• Uphill Conf – Javascript conference in Bern, Switzerland
• Release Butler