2020 Achievements

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2020 is a year that we'll all remember. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we work, shop, communicate, hang out with friends. Many families faced the tragedy this virus has brought :( 

Of course, the pandemic affected me as well (+-) both in my personal and professional life. I am a Front End developer with a passion for Angular framework, willing to help and evolve. Professionally I feel that it was a good year. 

Below are my achievements and contributions to the Angular community.​

TL;DR

• Book: 1 (WIP)
• Trainings: 4
• Meetup talks: 5
• Online videos: 4
• Courses: 1
• Articles: 4
• Workshops: 1
• OSS Contribution:
  • Angular: 2
  • Storybook: 4
• StackOverflow answers: 10

Book

A new world has unfolded for me, and I met what it takes to author a book. Although it is still in progress...​

• Title: Mastering Angular Reactive Forms
• Estimated to be ready: February 2021

Trainings

The best feeling ever is the thank you responses. It puts a big smile on my face when I know that I helped someone in his/her career path.​
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Angular course

• Private training
• Date: September
• Students: 20

Angular course

• Private training
• Date: September
• Students:  13

Angular course

• Private training
• Date: October
• Students:  23

Complete Angular course

• Private training
• Date: November
• Students: 35

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Meetup talks

I still remember my first talk. I was so nervous and felt my mouth dry all the time. My heart was beating so fast and loud that I thought that the audience would hear it :)

I like talking in meetups and conferences because I have to study a lot before a talk and to be prepared as much as possible. I usually spend hours learning and researching for my talk to share the best of it. 
My goal in each talk is to leave the audience with an itch. The more questions I have in the end, the better. The "thank you" message at the end is the best feeling.​

Create a Trello like app with Angular and GraphQL

• Where: Coimbatore Frontend Group (India)
• Date: 11/7
• Attendees: 50
• Link: visit

Create a custom UI library with Angular and Storybook

• Where: Angular Athens
• Date: 3/11
• Attendees: 45
• Link: visit

Smart dumb component with Reactive Forms

• Where: *ngThess
• Date: 13/11
• Attendees: 40
• Link: visit

Lazy load Angular components for a performance benefit

• Where: ngHouston
• Date: 2/12
• Attendees: 15
• Link: visit

Create a Trello like app with Angular and GraphQL

• Where: Angular Birmingham
• Date: 16/12
• Attendees: 40
• Link: visit

​Online videos

We watch YouTube videos almost every day. I was always thinking, "what it takes to make a video on YT?" 

For making the videos, among other things, I had to study how to video and audio edit. Also, I had to learn how to look natural in the camera and not like I read a transcript. The first videos failed big time, so I had to record them again and again. Are they OK now? I would say they are OKish. I have much more to learn, but it is a nice journey so far.​

Review ng-conf 2020

• Date: 25/05 
• Link: visit

All about tooling in Angular

• Date: 12/07
• Link: visit

What's new in Angular 10

• Date: 09/08
• Link: visit

State management in Angular: Library vs custom implementation

• Date: 22/10
• Link: visit

Courses

"I have good experience in teaching, so it would be easy to have a course in Udemy!"

Yeah! That's what I thought before I had started my first video. Some of the things that I have learned are: green screen, material gathering, organizing the edited videos in the file system, lighting, screen recording, video editing, audio editing, avoiding lagging :) 
Well, It wasn't that easy, but I enjoyed it a lot, and I will definitely come up with new courses.​

Angular Reactive Forms the complete guide

• Where: Udemy
• Released at: August
• Students: 232
• Link: visit

Articles

While blogging, I express myself, my thoughts, and how I perceive a subject. Although I may have something concrete and crystal clear in my mind, writing about it makes me realize that I have to read a lot more to know the best about it. Every article, regardless of its size, helps me become better.

The more you know, the less you know!
 
Mind your imports and save the bundle size
Link: visit

Lazy load Angular components in a HOC
Link: visit

State management and the washing machine
Link: visit

Angular Reactive Forms: Display error messages onSubmit
Link: visit 

Workshops

This workshop's goal was to live code and explain how to start an Angular application from scratch. I feel grateful for participating in this workshop and shared my knowledge.​

• Title: Getting started with Angular
• Date: 28/4
• Participants: 160
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Other contributions

I try to be active and contribute as much as I can. I do not feel that I did great in OSS contribution, but this is one of my goals for 2021!

OSS Contribution:

• Storybook: 4
• Angular: 2

Stackoverflow: 10 Answers