NG-BE 2016 conference application

w/ Ionic 2 & Angular 2

By Sam Vloeberghs / @samvloeberghs

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Today's topic

Testing applications

Wait, whut?

Talking about testing
single page application
@ GDG Devfest.be

NG-BE 2016

8-9/12/2016 - Holiday Inn - Ghent Expo

1 day high level workshop
1 day conference

International speakers!

Awesome team!

Great sponsors!

Stuff to win

• 100 EUR NG-BE conference discount!
• Ionic & NativeScript stickers!
• ...

Ask questions .. & guess the theme of the talk :)

Why a (mobile) application?

• Quick overview of schedule & speakers
• Auth via social providers or email
• Favorite sessions
• Rate sessions & provide feedback

the number 1 question:

Which technology should you use?

Eeuuuuuuhhh

I'm a little bit sceptical..

Looks a lot like..

What's most important?

• Community support
• Avoiding silos or isolated teams
• Company internal knowledge
• Business requirements

What's less important?

• The hype & coolfactor
• In the end, the technology chosen
  (the user doesn't care)

Secondary questions:

• Progressise web app or native mobile app?
• Need for native capabilities?
• Native user experience?
• Write once run everywhere?
• Or a combination?

Progressive webapp?

Ionic 2 || Responsive web app

• + Offline support / Service workers / manifest
• + Write once, run everywhere
• - Possible laggy UI
• - Native support via Cordova

Native app

Android || iOs || WP

• + Great UI experience
• + Optimized per platform
• - platform specific code
• - high dev cost

Combination

React native || NativeScript || Xamarin

• + Write JavaScript
• + Compile to native app
• - platform specific templates/code
• - yet another thing to learn

The NG-BE 2016 application

• Ionic 2 & Angular 2
• TypeScript
• Firebase 🔥:
  
  
  • Realtime!
  • AUTH out of the box

Why Ionic 2:

• The write once run everywhere principle
• Convenient ( expert in HTML5 & Angular2 )
• I wanted to learn it :)

First, my good feelings about Ionic 2

• Impressive support for native looks
• Deploying/building is easy
• Great community & company support

Demo time!

Things to remember

• Choose technology carefully
• Firebase 🔥 is awesome!
• Get your tickets for NG-BE! :)
• Keep on learning

Thank you!

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