AngularJS 2.0 and TypeScript

AngularJS is the incredibly popular framework for building single-page web applications. Version 2.0 is a major leap from the 1.x version designed to address shortcomings in the original 5+ year old framework and to embrace modern browsers and language features. It is being written using TypeScript, a superset of JavaScript that allows you to build code using next generation features and compile it to JavaScript that will run on current browsers. Visual Studio Code is the perfect platform to explore Angular applications because it is free, open source, and cross-platform and supports advanced features such as extensions, code completion and IntelliSense. In this session Jeremy Likness goes hands-on to show you how to set up your environment and build your first application while teaching you about the advantages of the framework and language based on his years of in-the-field experience architecting enterprise Angular applications.

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Our speaker for tonight is Jeremy Likness (http://bit.ly/coderblog). Jeremy is the director of application development and principal architect at iVision, an Atlanta-based technology services company. Jeremy wrote his first program in 1982, was recognized in the "who's who in Quake" list for programming the first implementation of "Midnight Capture the Flag" in Quake C and has been developing enterprise applications for 20 years. For the past 15 years he has specialized in web-based delivery of line of business applications.

Jeremy is the author of four technology books, a six-year Microsoft MVP, a Telerik Kendo UI Developer Expert, and speaks and writes regularly on web-based topics such as AngularJS. In addition to owning his own fitness company for several years, he helped several initially small companies like Manhattan Associates (which he joined when it was still private) and AirWatch (as the third employee and former director of IT) grow and actively participated in their transition from good to great. Jeremy is vegan and spends most of his free time running, hiking, rock-climbing and primitive camping with his family, watching retro science fiction movies with his daughter and playing 9-ball on any pool table he can find.