Articles by Tyler Davis

Lucidchart is Turing Complete

September 25, 2018 Tyler Davis 1 Comment

I’ve been watching the Turing completeness of Lucidchart for over a year now. As far as I have been able to prove, Lucidchart has been dipping in and out of being Turing complete for most of that time. In the past, however, I have been able to simulate Turing machines…

5 usage ideas for Angular pipes

November 8, 2017 Tyler Davis 5 Comments

Pipes are a useful feature in Angular. They are a simple way to transform values in an Angular template. There are some built in pipes, but you can also build your own pipes. A pipe takes in a value or values and then returns a value. This is great for…

Removing Roadblocks in the Move to Angular 4

April 20, 2017 Tyler Davis 2 Comments

Angular has become the de facto front-end MVC framework of the Web. We had been slowly adopting Angular 1 here at Lucidchart, but the vast majority of our crucial components were built in jQuery and vanilla JavaScript. We were one of the early pioneers of Angular 2. We found Angular…

Bootstrap Angular 2 with Ahead of Time Template Compilation

December 16, 2016 Tyler Davis 0 Comments

Angular 2 has several different paradigms for bootstrapping an application. The default platform that is used in Angular’s examples is the dynamic browser platform. Platform browser means that this application is going to be bootstrapped in a browser and will therefore have direct access to the DOM and other browser…

Installing Angular 2 and Other Dependencies

December 12, 2016 Tyler Davis 3 Comments

Let’s be honest. Setting up a “modern” front end application in 2016 can be painful. Luckily the Angular 2 team has provided a command line tool, angular-cli, to help ease the pain. Although it is still in beta, angular-cli is a great way to set up an Angular 2 project…