Day 15: Mutant Office Hours

Monday, June 20, 2016

Topics

John Papa’s Style Guide

• THE Angular-team endorsed style guide for AngularJS
• Single Responsibility - One component per file, less than 400 lines of code
• IIFE - Removes variables from the global scope
• controllerAs with vm - Use capture variable for this when using controllerAs syntax
• Bindable members up top - Place bindable members at the top of the controller, not spread through the controller code
• 'use strict' - for enforcing ‘strict mode’ in JavaScript projects

Firebase

• A realtime database utilizing web sockets
• Handles user authentication

AngularFire

• Officially supported AngularJS binding for Firebase

Twilio

• Cloud communication platform for voice calls and texts

mailgun

• Email automation service

Project

• Mutant Office Hours: source

Homework

• Read the sections of the Style Guide listed above
• Review commit history for the day