AiA 221: Angular Schematics from the Ground Up with Brian Love & Kevin Schuchard

Panel: 
- Charles Max Wood
- Joe Eames
- Aaron Frost
- Alyssa Nicoll
Special Guests: https://twitter.com/brian_love?lang=en & https://twitter.com/KevinSchuchard In this episode, the panelist talk with today’s special guests Brian Love & Kevin Schuchard! Brian and Kevin work at https://www.briebug.com – check out their employee profiles https://www.briebug.com/briebug-development-team/! The panelist and guests talk about schematics, Angular, AST, and much more!Show Topics:0:00 – https://devchat.tv/get-a-coder-job/ 0:50 – Chuck: Hello! Our panel today is Joe, Aaron, Alyssa, and myself. We have two guests today, and we are going to talk about schematics. Let’s dive into that!1:46 – Guest: Schematics is a library that is coming out of Angular and the Angular Team.The guest gives a definition of Angular Schematics. 2:26 – Alyssa.2:31 – Kevin: The functionality that you are hoping for depends on the CLI that you are on.3:00 – Alyssa: Sorry for diving into the juicy stuff but we forgot to talk about your introductions!3:19 – The guests talk about their backgrounds and introduce themselves to the panel and the listeners.  3:49 – Alyssa.3:54 – Guest continues.4:21 – Panel: Crazy and busy!4:28 – Alyssa.4:31 – Kevin: I am Senior Developer, and I have worked here for a few years. I have had the opportunities to write some schematics for the company and some of my own schematics.4:53 – Alyssa: Aren’t you so proud that you are a “Senior Developer”?!5:10 – Guest and panelists go back-and-forth. 6:23 – Guests: We want people to be familiar with schematics and start their journey with schematics.6:50 – Panel: It’s kind of trippy isn’t that right?7:00 – Guest: Yeah there are hurdles to learning schematics at first – for sure.7:22 – Alyssa: What is AST?7:29 – Guest gives a definition of AST and goes into much detail about this. 10:00 – Alyssa: I think I understand, now, what AST is. Thanks.Alyssa asks the guests a question. 10:14 – Guest answers the question about AST. 10:51 – Guest continues. 11:27 – Panelist is talking about the AST and schematics. 12:03 – Guest: You can read the whole file and using the AST you can figure out where you went to enter the text.12:25 – Alyssa asks a question. 12:28 – Guest: We are not the developers of schematics, but we are just here to share our knowledge. I want to be super clear here.13:39 – Panelist talks about schematics, CLI, and AST. 14:18 – Guest: You don’t have to know all about AST and everything there is to know to get into it. You can build schematics w/o getting into AST. Just to be clear.14:39 – Alyssa asks a follow-up question. 14:41 – Guest continues. 15:57 – Guest: AST has been around for a while – it’s not a new thing it’s kind of an old thing.Guest talks about tools (Code Shift) that Facebook has built that is related to this topic.  17:22 – Guest: Yeah AST has been around for a while.17:28 – Alyssa asks a question about Code Shift.  17:36 – Guest.18:21 – Panel and guest go back-and-forth. 19:51 – Alyssa: You said you really don’t need to get into AST to do schematics – right? (Yes.)Alyssa asks a question. 20:19 – Guest: There are two pieces with schematics and that’s adding of new files and you can decide which pieces of the templates you want to be compiled.21:58 – Chuck: For schematics you mentioned you could drop strings in.Chuck asks a question.22:29 – Guest answers the question with a hypothetical situation. 23:09 – Chuck: I read the article you wrote and I have a question about your article. Tell me about the tree?23:29 – Guest talks about the tree or aka the host. 25:40 – Guest: The tree is a virtual kind of context and it’s...