We've got all the videos, demos, resources and prize winners from the big Kendo UI For Angular release bash!
Yesterday was the official launch of Kendo UI for Angular. It's a completely reimagined and rebuilt Kendo UI that finally brings Kendo UI to Angular in the best way possible. We had a lot of fun yesterday, and I'd like to thank our guests Long Le from Pioneer Natural Resources, and Stephen Fluin from the Angular team. If you didn't get a chance to see the webinar, or you were impeded by the sometimes flaky webinar platform, we've published the entire video to YouTube.
I've gone ahead and pulled out some highlights for you...
- Long Le from Pioneer Talks Standardizing on Kendo UI for Angular
- Steven Fluin from Google Talks Angular CLI
- Tara Manicsic Does aSick Getting Started Demo
- Burke Holland (moi) Explores How Kendo UI Works with AoT and Tree Shaking
Demo Resources
You can get all of the code that Tara used in her demo from her GitHub repo. You can also get all of my code and the Kendo UI Tunes demo that I built from GitHub as well. I even added functionality for visualizing the audio tracks with a Kendo UI SparkLine!
That project has some fun and interesting things to look at, including how to communicate between components using an Angular Service.
Of course, despite how compelling and magnificent each of those segments and demos are, what you really came here for was to find out if you are the lucky winner of one of our prizes yesterday. In case you don't remember or weren't able to make it, here is what we are giving away.
Prizes and Winners!
First off, the fine folks at Ultimate Angular are giving away five subscriptions to their amazing Angular video content. Ultimate Angular is widely recognized as a premier place to learn Angular, and we're all in the process of learning. To be eligible to win one of these licenses, you only needed to register for the webinar. Additionally, this prize is available anywhere in the world since we don't have to ship it! With that said, our five Ultimate Angular winners are...
- Milind Bansode
- Mark Orlando
- Mark Anderson
- Ryan Dowling
- Chris Bell
If you see your name on there, you don't need to do anything. We'll be contacting you to get your preferred email address to setup the subscription. Once we hear back from you, you'll be set!
The other item we are giving away is an XBox One S System. 
We decided to give this to the person who asked the best question on Twitter, and let me tell you, there were a TON of them. Nearly 300 to be exact. It is always incredibly difficult to choose the best question since that it is such an arbitrary measurement. The way we do this is that 3 - 4 of us pick our favorite question from the Twitter interactions and then we pull in a larger group to vote on the best one.
This time around, our winner is Frik Strecker! Frik asked...
#heyKendoUI is there a way to have a single project sharing the core code between NativeScript and Angular UIs?
— Frik Strecker (@frikstrecker) May 9, 2017
Frik is already thinking ahead.
For those that aren't aware, we have an open-source project called NativeScript that allows you to build native mobile apps using JavaScript. This is not to be confused with hybrid (Phonegap / Cordova). These are truly native, the kind you would get if you wrote Objective-C or used Xamarin. The difference is that you code in JavaScript and use XML to markup the UI.
Because NativeScript uses JavaScript, it can also use Angular. In fact, we shipped first-class support for Angular in our official 2.0 release back in May of last year. Since Kendo UI is now built on Angular, and NativeScript has support for Angular, this indicates that you could share code between both web and native mobile projects. And you can.
We're still in the early stages of this integration, but you can check out two different resources to see how this works. The first is angular-seed-advanced from Nathan Walker. This is a seed project to help you get up and running targeting web, desktop (via Electron) and mobile (via NativeScript) all with the same Angular project.
You can also check out Jen Looper and TJ VanToll at ng-conf last year showing you how this works.
Congrats to Frik for winning the XBox One S! It's in the mail my friend.
NOW is the Time for Angular
With the launch of Kendo UI For Angular, we have ushered Kendo UI into a completely new kind of UI Component library. While Angular brings a lot of changes for those of us who come from jQuery backgrounds, we think that it also brings with it some enormous advantages in terms of performance and application structure.
You can get started with Kendo UI For Angular today. If you're still struggling to learn Angular, you can check out the Angular Tour of Heroes tutorial on their site. If your company is dead serious about investing in Angular, we recommend purchasing some quality video training from folks like our partners over at Ultimate Angular.
We're all learning together and it's ok to be confused or overwhelmed. The front part of the learning curve is everyone's least favorite part. Once you become familiar with Angular and its core concepts, it's truly remarkable how productive you can be.