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Published inFeb 2023
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Aristeidis Bampakos
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Aristeidis Bampakos

Aristeidis Bampakos is a Web Development Team Lead at Plex-Earth who specializes in the development of web applications with Angular. He has been an Angular Google Developer Expert (GDE) since 2020 and works as an Angular Senior Tech Instructor at Code.Hub, a private educational institute, where he nurtures aspiring Angular developers and professionals. He is also the author of Angular Projects with Packt.
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Pablo Deeleman
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Pablo Deeleman

With sound expertise in front-end libraries and frameworks such as Backbone.js, Knockout.js, VueJS, React, Svelte, AngularJs, and Angular, Pablo Deeleman has developed his career since 1998 as a JavaScript engineer across a broad range of successful companies such as Gameloft, Red Hat or Dynatrace, just to name a few. He currently works as Staff Software Engineer at Twilio, the global leader in customer engagement communications. Pablo Deeleman has contributed to the dev community with several books on Angular since 2016, all published by Packt Publishing.
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Why choose Angular?

The power of the Angular platform is based on the combination of the following characteristics:

  • The main pillars of the platform: cross-platform, incredible tooling, and easy onboarding
  • The usage of Angular worldwide

In the following sections, we will examine each characteristic in more detail.

Cross-platform

Angular applications can run on different platforms: web, server, desktop, and mobile. Angular can run natively only on the web because it is a JavaScript framework. However, it is open-source and is backed by a vast and incredible community that enables the framework to run on the remaining three using the following integrations:

  • Angular Universal: Renders Angular applications server-side
  • Angular Service Worker: Enables Angular applications to run as Progressive Web Applications (PWA) that are customizable and can be installed on a desktop environment
  • Ionic Framework: Allows us to build mobile applications...
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Authors (2)

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Aristeidis Bampakos

Aristeidis Bampakos is a Web Development Team Lead at Plex-Earth who specializes in the development of web applications with Angular. He has been an Angular Google Developer Expert (GDE) since 2020 and works as an Angular Senior Tech Instructor at Code.Hub, a private educational institute, where he nurtures aspiring Angular developers and professionals. He is also the author of Angular Projects with Packt.
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Pablo Deeleman

With sound expertise in front-end libraries and frameworks such as Backbone.js, Knockout.js, VueJS, React, Svelte, AngularJs, and Angular, Pablo Deeleman has developed his career since 1998 as a JavaScript engineer across a broad range of successful companies such as Gameloft, Red Hat or Dynatrace, just to name a few. He currently works as Staff Software Engineer at Twilio, the global leader in customer engagement communications. Pablo Deeleman has contributed to the dev community with several books on Angular since 2016, all published by Packt Publishing.
Read more about Pablo Deeleman