Apps – Web

Web Apps – Angular 

The Forefront Of Tech 

The last ten years have seen some interesting changes to the way we do business:

  • Working remotely
  • Cloud computing offerings
  • More wider customer base
  • Demand from clients to be ever more accessible
  • Quicker pace of updates to API’s & of tech adopted
  • The need to scale up quickly
  • Increased client interactions via an online presence

Traditionally businesses wishing to keep up-to-date with tech, would incur heavy costs. Costs of hiring and employing a number of IT specialists to maintain systems, database, website hosting, website design, website administration, support staff.  Enter the era of the Single Page App! (SPA)

Angular is a platform for building web applications.  It is a TypeScript based, open-source web application framework led by the Angular Team at Google.

A single programmer can be responsible for developing a SPA.  The costs of development and maintenance are much more affordable using this stack of technology (Firebase, PrimeNg (or other styling offering) and Angular).

I am very excited to see the power Angular apps give businesses of all sizes.  Its adaptability to be used in such a broad way, means it can be adopted for the smallest of needs to the biggest!

Demo By Imagine Code Create

With the old Rolodex in mind, this app is a simple Client-info version called Clientdex.  Built with Angular,  Firebase backend and styling with PrimeNg.

https://demo.imaginecodecreate.com/  

Angular Is Awesome!

Some Examples Of Angular Apps On A Larger Scale

  • Gmail  – Google Mail
  • Upwork  – the online job portal
  • Udacity – Online course provider
  • Forbes

Made With Angular showcases a number of Angular (and AngularJS) apps, see  https://www.madewithangular.com/categories/angular for this showcase.

Where To Use A SPA In Your Business?

Angular apps lends itself well to solve problems across all areas of business.

Many companies provide an online price calculator (tailored to their product/service offerings).  SPA’s can enable clients to get more out of the product or service you offer.   Maybe you have a product/service which could be fulfilled by a SPA itself.

Finally!  PAYG For The Backend

Start your app in Firebase for free, then pay as you go!

The data in your app is saved on Firebase from Google.  Every time you save/edit/delete a piece of data, or display this data, this is called a read, write, update or delete to the backend (the database).  Firebase charges for every one of these.  Knowing a rough layout of your app, and predicted usage, you can easily predict what the cost would be for using Firebase.  See here to visit Firebase’s pricing page.

To get you started, Firebase gives a very generous amount of read/writes of data, cloud storage, authentications, cloud functions and allowance for web hosting.  For apps that are small, the free allowance could be enough! Use the Blaze Plan Calculator here to find out.

You can scale up without needed to work on your backend to enable the system to cope. Firebase manages this for you automatically.  Firebase gives usage stats, usage notifications, price predictions and more!