On this episode I interview Rhys Bret-Bowen, Google Engineer, about using AngularJS to build applications for Google.  This is front-end developer cast episode 4.

This interview is with Rhys Bret-Bowen who is a Google Engineer currently using AngularJS to build applications for Google.  We discuss his experiences good and bad with AngularJS and talk about details of the Google technology stack for the project which I found fascinating.  In particular, they are using ProtoBuf (Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format) and the Closure Compiler.

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Resources

Closure

Protocal Buffers

Rhys's blog

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Craig McKeachie: [0:01 ] On this episode I interview Rhys Brett-Bowen, Google Engineer, about using AnguarJS to build applications for Google. This is "Front-End Developer Cast, Episode 4." [theme music]

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[1:35 ] Today's interviewee is Rhys Brett-Bowen, who is a Google Engineer currently using AngularJS to build applications for Google. We discuss his experiences good and bad with AngularJS, and talk about details of the Google technology stack for the project which I found fascinating.

[1:50 ] In particular, they are using ProtoBuf, which is short for Protocol Buffers, Google's data interchange format, and the Closure Compiler.

[1:59 ] Here's the interview.

[2:00 ] Hi, I've got Rhys Brett-Bowen with me today. He is a Google Engineer at Google in their New York office and has been working with Angular on their most recent project. We're going to talk through his experience with that, as well as, some of the other tools they use it Google, and the JavaScript, and front-end web development space. Welcome to the program.

Rhys Brett-Bowen: [2:21 ] Thank you.

Craig: [2:22 ] Tell me about the app you're working on. Maybe not from a technical standpoint at first, but what does the app do? So the end-users have a feel of the UI and that sort of thing.

Rhys: [2:33 ] I am working on a BitManager team. What we're currently working on is the reporting page. It's not exactly a quick app. It's all done in Java and that gets compiled down into JavaScript.

[2:45 ] What we're doing now is, and in a lot of places in Google,