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Web Angular
Creating an Angular 2 Injectable Service

This guide was written for Angular 2 version: 2.0.0-rc.4 Services are an abstraction layer that handles an application's business logic, which usually includes communicating with a backend and parsing...

by Todd Motto
March 24, 2017 4 min read Share
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Building a Conversational Bot with JavaScript and Node.js

Let's admit it - speaking to other people is so last century. Today, we might talk to our machines (Siri, Alexa, etc.), but, if we want to communicate with people, we use text. We SMS rather than call...

by Brian Rinaldi
March 23, 2017 14 min read Share
Web Angular
From ui-router to Component Router

This guide was written for Angular 2 version: 2.0.0 Routing in Angular 2 has finally stabilized with the introduction of the latest component router which allows us to map components directly to route...

by The Telerik Team
March 22, 2017 7 min read Share
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Can Google's Guetzli JPEG Encoder Help Solve Web Page Bloat?

Images are a key ingredient of compelling content. However, images also bloat up our web pages. According to Tammy Everts of Soasta, in 2015, the average page weight was about 2.1MB and 65% of that wa...

by Brian Rinaldi
March 21, 2017 6 min read Share
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From ng-repeat in Angular 1.x to ngFor in Angular 2

This guide was written for Angular 2 version: 2.0.0-rc.4 The ng-repeat directive in Angular 1.x allows us to iterate over a collection of data and print out DOM nodes that respond to that data. If the...

by Todd Motto
March 20, 2017 5 min read Share