The Angular Plus Show

The Angular Plus Show

The Angular Plus Show is the home of ng-conf's official all-Angular podcast. Come here to stay up to date on the latest changes in the Angular community. Expect to laugh and cry with us as we talk about our experiences as Angular developers.

Episodes

July 8, 2025 56 mins
End-to-end testing has traditionally been a source of frustration for developers - flaky tests, complex setup, and poor debugging experiences have made it a necessary evil rather than a productive part of the development workflow. With the rise of modern testing frameworks like Playwright, developers are discovering that E2E testing can actually be reliable, fast, and even enjoyable. The integration of AI capabilities is further re...
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Client rendered web apps are not generally not indexable by Google Bot and others for extracting on-page content and optimizations for ranking high in the search engine results page. The result is that many organizations use technologies like WordPress, Astro, and others, for a marketing presence on the web, avoiding frameworks like Angular and React due to this limtation. With the maturing of Server-Side Rendering (SSR) in Angular...
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Our beloved former host, Jay Bell, stopped by this week to share what he’s learned about using GraphQL to speed up development and keep code quality on point. Always a blast having him back!
https://graphql.org/learn/
https://www.apollographql.com/
https://the-guild.dev/

More about Jay: 

Bluesky: @jaycooperbell.dev‬
LinkedIn: Jay Bell
X: @JayCooperBell

trellis.org

https://graphql.org/learn/
https://www.apollographql.com/
https://the-guild.dev...
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Today Michelle Frost from JetBrains joins Jan and Q to explore the challenges and opportunities of integrating AI tools directly into your IDE, discuss real-world scenarios around trust, transparency, and skill-building, and unpack what “responsible AI use” looks like.

More about Michelle 
Bluesky: @aiwithmichelle.com‬
LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-frost-dev/

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It’s not everyday your favorite JavaScript framework releases its twentieth version! Join us with Minko as we find out what features graduate to stable, what changes we can expect, and more!! goo.gle/angular-v20

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LinkedIn: Minko Gechev
Bluesky:  @mgechev.bsky.social

 
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We talked about SSR here before. This week we sat down with Brygida and continued this conversation, covering some more of the in-depths of SSR and what it means for you and your team!

More about Brygida:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brygidafiejdasz/
https://x.com/brydziaf
https://www.instagram.com/speed_date_with_angular/
https://www.youtube.com/@SpeedDateWithAngular

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Chau and Jan sit down and talk about the "TYPE" in TypeScript because Chau comes across an amazing talk Kris Jenkins called Communicating in Types. Chau shares about his mistakes with error handling patterns with Remix in TypeScript. Jan seems to enjoy it and we think you will enjoy it too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOz66dcsuT8

More about Chau & Jan-Niklas
X: @niklas_wortmann  @Nartc1410
LinkedIn:Jan-Niklas Wortmann  Chau N T...
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Testing your code should not be painful and it shouldn't set you up for painful refactors down the road. Our guest Younes Jaaidi shares his stratgey for writing tests that flips the way we think about writing test AND code on it's head.

Younes' cookbook:  Younes' Cookbook

https://poku.io/

More about Younes
https://twitter.com/yjaaidi
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yjaaidi/
https://bsky.app/profile/younesjd.dev
https://github.com/yjaaidi
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We all hear about AI every single day, but what are AI Agents and how are they used? Join us today as we talk with Rizel Scarlett from Block!

More about Rizel
X: https://x.com/blackgirlbytes
LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/rizel-bobb-semple
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/blackgirlbytes.bsky.social 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vHK9Xg_d6Sk
Block AI Agent: https://github.com/block/goose
Resilient Coders: https://www.resilient...
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Cypress is a fantastic tool for E2E, but also component testing. In this episode we sat down with Mark Noonan, product manager at cypress. Other than Cypres we also extensively talked about testing accessibility, you don't want to miss that!

More about Mark
LinkedIn: Mark Noonan
Bluesky: @marktnoonan.bsky.social

Cypress Accessibility product page
UI Coverage
Angular component testing docs


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Angular SSR has come a long way since the destructive hydration days, it's easier than ever to spin up a new ssr app or even add ssr to an existing app! Join us as we interview Soumaya Erradi about getting into SSR, what the best new features are, and even how to get started debugging!

More about Soumaya
LinkedIn: Soumaya Erradi
X: @sumy92
Bluesky: @sumyerradi.bsky.social


Hybrid Rendering Guide
NG Baguette Conf
 
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Want to land your first (or next) speaking slot at a tech conference? Join us as Chris Woody Woodruff (Sessionize "Most active Speaker" badge for 2023 & 2024) breaks down the art of crafting talk proposals that get noticed—and accepted. From brainstorming compelling topics to writing titles and abstracts that stand out in a sea of submissions. Whether you’re a first-time speaker or looking to sharpen your proposal game, you’ll ...
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It is hard to be an Angular developer without running into "legacy" Angular code, especially when we consider the number of features and updates that have been released by the Angular team in the past few years. In this episode, we talk with Katarzyna Płocka from ngGirls and Motorolla about how she and her teams manage their code bases to keep their applications performant, up to date, and easy to maintain.

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Join us as we talk with Jason Lengstorf about how adding fun and creativity to your coding can actually help you be a better coder!

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X:@jlengstorf , @codetv_dev
 
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When it comes to component libraries, there are several choices, but there is only one that is maintained by that Angular team at Google. Angular Material has been quietly updating and adding features. In version 19 of Angular, Angular Material uses Material Design 3, design tokens, and so much more. Join us today as we talk with Ankita Sood about what's new in Angular Material and why Ankita's team uses Angular Material every day.

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This is an episode of the Angular Plus Show that you will not want to miss. We welcome Rainer Hahnekamp to the show to learn about his Angular community contributions to NgRx, NgRx Toolkit, Playwright Component Testing and more. Rainer is a Google Developer Expert in Angular and a software architect at Angular Architects. Rainer shares his experience building open-source software for the Angular community and answers all of the que...
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Join us and Alisa Duncan as we explore auth for Modern Angular!

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X: @AlisaDuncan
LinkedIn: J. Alisa Duncan

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Join us and Maria Korneeva as we discuss web accessibility. 

More about Maria.
X: @BrowserPerson,
BlueSky: @browser-person.bsky.social,
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-korneeva/

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December 16, 2024 68 mins
If you struggle to stay focused on your work, like we do, this is the episode for you! Jim Bennett joins us to talk about Pieces, an app for developers that helps you connect thoughts, code, and context, to stay in your flow. 

More about Jim and Pieces:

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/jimbobbennett.dev
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Join us on today's episode as we interview David Khourshid. We will learn about state machines, how XState plays nice with Angular right out of the box and how we can use XState Store to build light weight state machines for simple state.

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BlueSky: @davidkpiano.bsky.social
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