Chandermani Arora is a software craftsman, with love for technology and expertise on web stack. With years of experience, he has architected, designed, and developed various solutions for Microsoft platforms. He has been building apps on Angular 1 since its early days. Having a passion for the framework every project of his has an Angular footprint.
He tries to support the platform in every possible way by writing blogs on various Angular topics or helping fellow developers on StackOverflow, where he is an active member on the Angular channel. He also authored the first edition of this book.
Writing this book has just been a surreal experience and I would like to thank everyone on the Packt team including the reviewers who have helped me with this book.I also want to express my gratitude towards my wife, my daughter and everyone else in my family. I am blessed to have you all in my life.
Kevin Hennessy is a Senior Software Engineer with Applied Information Sciences. He has 20 years' experience as a developer, team lead, and solutions architect, working on web-based projects, primarily using the Microsoft technology stack. Over the last several years, he has presented and written about single-page applications and JavaScript frameworks, including Knockout, Meteor, and Angular. He has spoken about Angular at the All Things Open conference.
I would like to thank my wife, Mary Gene Hennessy. Her unstinting love and support (and editorial suggestions) through the time that I spent writing this book, have made me ever more aware and appreciate how truly amazing it is to be married to her. I also want to thank my son, Aidan, who has informally tested the code in this book. He is a recent college graduate and his enthusiasm for technology has inspired me in writing this book.
Christoffer Noring, a software developer with over 10 years' experience, has successfully delivered software for industries ranging from telecom to aviation. He has worked on everything from databases to frontend. Frequently speaking on TDD, React, NativeScript, RxJS, and Angular, he writes books and blogs and holds the title of Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies and Angular.
Currently working for McKinsey as a full stack developer, he's the author and maintainer of RxJS Ultimate, and he has coauthored Learning Angular - Second Edition, a Packt title.
Thank you to my reviewers, Sachin, Andrew, Vince, Mashhood, and Ward, whose comments have been most helpful and have improved this book. Sara, my wife, I wouldn't be in this place in my career without your valuable input and your saintly patience. Forever yours. My brother, your suggestions and ongoing support have turned me into the writer I am today. Mom and dad, thank you for your loving support and encouragement.
Doguhan Uluca is a software development expert for Excella Consulting in Washington, DC. He is the founder and director of the polyglot Tech Talk DC meetup and the creator of the DC Full Stack Web Summit conference. Doguhan has been published on DevPro and ACM. He is a speaker at international conferences, such as Ng-Conf, CodeStock, deliver:Agile and Agile XP. He is a full-stack JavaScript, Agile, and cloud engineering practitioner. Doguhan is an active contributor to the open source community, with libraries and tools published for JavaScript, Angular, Node, and MongoDB.
I would like to acknowledge my dear family, Chanda and Ada, for all their sacrifice and encouragement, allowing this book to happen. In addition, the amazing communities at NOVA Code Camp, NodeConf, ng-conf, Node.DC, and Tech Talk DC for opening up my mind and embracing my ideas. Finally, my colleagues at Excella, who allowed an open, inquisitive, and daring environment to effect real change.
Phodal Huang is a developer, creator, and author. He works in ThoughtWorks as a Senior Consultant, and focuses on IoT and frontend. He is the author of Design IoT System and Growth: Thinking in Full Stack in Chinese.
He is an open source enthusiast, and has created a series of projects in GitHub. After daily work, he likes to reinvent some wheels for fun. He created the micro-frontend framework Mooa for Angular. You can find out more wheels on his GitHub page, /phodal.
He loves designing, writing, hacking, traveling, you can also find out more about him on his personal website at phodal(dot)com.
Mashhood Rastgar is the founder and technical lead at Recurship, which is a JavaScript consultancy based in Karachi, Pakistan. He is also part of the Google Developer Experts for Web and Angular. Mashhood works startups working in EU and USA, to help them crawl through the technical maze and quickly build amazing products focused around the problems they are trying to solve. He specializes in using the latest technologies available to identify the best solutions. He is also a frequent international and local speaker at different web conferences.
Vinci Rufus is a Google Developer Expert and Senior Director with SapientRazorfish. He consults clients and teams on frontend architecture, mobile strategy, and user experience, primarily in the areas of content and commerce. His areas of interest involve progressive web apps, Angular, React, and web components. He is an author of AngularJS Web Application Development Blueprints.
A big shout out to my kids, Shannon and Jaden, and my nephew, Chris, who make it all worth it.
Sachin Ohri is a technology architect with a keen interest in web-based technologies. He has been writing web applications for more than a decade, with technologies such as .NET, JavaScript, Durandal, Angular, and TypeScript. He works on providing technical solutions, including architectural design, technical support, and development expertise, to Fortune 500 companies. He holds various Microsoft certifications, such as Microsoft Azure Architect, Microsoft ASP.NET MVC web application, and Microsoft Programming with C#.
Andrew Leith Macrae first cut his programming teeth on an Apple IIe, poking bytes into the RAM. Over the years, he has developed interactive applications with Hypercard, Director, Flash, and more recently, Adobe AIR for mobile. He has also worked with HTML since there was HTML to work with and is currently working as a senior frontend developer at The Learning Channel, using Angular 4 with TypeScript.
Wyn B. Van Devanter is currently a managing consultant and senior developer with Excella, an Agile tech firm. He has experience in various industries and government with architecture, design, and implementation of software, largely with web-based applications. He also works heavily with DevOps, cloud, and container-based architectures and strives to be a good software craftsman using XP practices. He enjoys being involved in the community and regularly speaks and conducts workshops at events around the region. Wyn likes playing music, skiing, and conversations of intrigue.
Brendon Caulkins is a DC-based full stack developer at Excella. His focus is Java, but he still harbors a secret love for PHP. He holds a computer engineering degree from Purdue University (Boiler Up!) and refuses to give up playing with Legos. He has nearly a decade of hardware environmental testing and software product testing experience and is really, really good at breaking things. He is also an award-winning painter of tiny toy soldiers and goes by the name Plarzoid on the interwebs.
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