VS Single Page App Design with AngularJS

SINGLE PAGE APP
DESIGN WITH
ANGULERJS
THE WORLD AIN’T WHAT IT USED TO BE…
Copyright © 2015, Stacey Vetzal

STACEY VETZAL
• Founder of Mojility Inc.
• First computer, age 10
• hardware and software hacker for 35 years
• Frustrated and embarrassed with the state of software
development in the industry
• I am platform, language, and technology agnostic
• I have strong opinions, but they are loosely held

HACKER
IETF RFC 1392
hacker (n):
A person who delights in having an intimate
understanding of the internal workings of a system,
computers and computer networks in particular.
The term is often misused in a pejorative context,
where "cracker" would be the correct term.

CRAFTSMAN
I owe much of who I am to my father.
When I was a child, I would go to my
father with simple projects, and I would
watch him build them, usually of wood,
but sometimes other materials. He is an
incredible craftsman, brings beauty out of
the mundane and gives it a purpose. I
strive to honour that in my own craft,
which is software development. It is a long
road, but I believe worthwhile, as where
wood used to touch every aspect of our
lives in eras past, now there is software.

TODAY
Today we are better than yesterday, but not as
good as we will be tomorrow.
Today our tools are better than they were
yesterday, but not as good as they will be
tomorrow.
We build software today.

http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000001813/index.html

THE WHITE BELT
• … You are walking comfortably on a plateau of
competence. Your colleagues recognize your
abilities and call on you to help them solve
problems in your area of expertise. You have pride
in your skills.
• … it seems somehow harder than it was before to
acquire new skills… You fear that your personal
development may have stalled.

- Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back
“You must unlearn what
you have learned.”
THE WHITE BELT

var i=require(“information”);

4 RULES OF SIMPLE DESIGN
• Tests pass
• Express Intent
• Don’t Repeat Yourself
• Small

4 RULES OF SIMPLE DESIGN:
TESTS PASS
“Code without tests is bad
code. It doesn’t matter how
well written it is; it doesn’t
matter how pretty or object-
oriented or well-encapsulated
it is. With tests, we can change
the behaviour of our code
quickly and veriﬁably.”
- Michael C. Feathers, Working
Effectively with Legacy Code

TESTS PASS
• What kinds of tests do you do?
• Exploratory?
• Story or script driven?
• Automated?

EXPRESSES INTENT
The Principle of Least Astonishment
“The result of performing
some operation should be
obvious, consistent, and
predictable, based upon the
name of the operation and
other clues.”
-Ward Cunningham, from c2

EXPRESSES INTENT
• There are two hard things in computer science
• Cache invalidation
• Naming things
• Off-by-one errors

DON’T REPEAT YOURSELF
“…every piece of system
knowledge should have one
authoritative, unambiguous
representation… A system’s
knowledge is far broader than just
its code… database schemas, test
plans, the build system, even
documentation.”
- Dave Thomas, co-author of The
Pragmatic Programmer on
Orthogonality and the DRY
Principle.

DON’T REPEAT YOURSELF
The Single Responsibility Principle
“A class should only have one
reason to change.”
“Responsibilities have profound
long-term effects on the
maintainability and ﬂexibility of
software.”
- Robert C. Martin, author Clean
Code, Principles of Object
Oriented Design

SMALL
- Mark Twain
“I didn’t have
time to write a
short letter, so I
wrote a long
one instead.”

SMALL
• What does SMALL mean?
• Lines of code?
• Classes?
• Functions?
• # of function call arguments?
• How do you MEASURE it?

using MoreInformation;

COHESION AND COUPLING

require(“all-please.php”);

THE BIRTH AND DEATH OF
JAVASCRIPT
• Gary Bernhardt, Destroy
All Software
• https://
www.destroyallsoftware.com/
talks/the-birth-and-death-of-
javascript
• If you have any concerns
about the legitimacy of
JavaScript as a
programming language

THE BIRTH AND DEATH OF
JAVASCRIPT
• JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford, 2008
• Generally considered the book that kicked off the JS
legitimacy movement
• Node.JS, 2009
• Today a very strong foundation of intelligence and
maturity working in communities using JavaScript
• JavaScript Jabber, DevChat.tv, excellent weekly podcast,
currently at episode 154

(defun load-information ()
(load “information.cl”))

BREAKING APART WEB
APPLICATIONS
• MVC? WTF?
• Most of what you’ve been told are MVC
frameworks are considered Model2 frameworks
• Still stemming from classic JSP, ASP and PHP
architectures
• MVC is really not that informative about good app
architecture.

WHY ANGULARJS?
• Why not?
• Tons of attention, and a tiny little backer called
Google
• Provides good ﬂexibility on how you assemble the
browser-side of your apps
• Promotes modular design, and supports good
testing practices

TRY IT YOURSELF
• The free Google sponsored course on CodeSchool
is a bit slow and corny for experienced
developers, but gives you an effective and concise
introduction to the core of the framework.
• http://campus.codeschool.com/courses/shaping-
up-with-angular-js/intro

LET’S CODE!

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