Angular, Ionic & Node: Build A Real Web & Mobile Chat App

First of all I did not finish the course (93% done). The course is great in terms of spreading the knowledge about the technologies involved but it’s too long. I greatly appreciate the effort of the instructor to develop an application both in web and mobile flavor; but be aware in doing it he’s repeating himself too much doing lots of cut & paste of code that a common developer would try to reuse instead. I felt during the course a bit bored in copy and repeating the same concepts everywhere, while there was the opportunity to explore other aspects of the technologies like pipes NG or creating and emitting events. Similarly for the Ionic part he’s trying to customize some components layout but from the Ionic documentation you can do it with component properties. The last thing that can be in any case questionable is the naming convention he’s using, they are a bit confusing; userId that are User objects instances and so on, while there is documentation around on styles like for NG https://angular.io/guide/styleguide (created by John Papa). Overall I learned the technologies, but could be better organized and concise.

I didn’t finished yet the tutorial .My rate is 4.5/5, i will explain why: Pro: Instructor respond fast to your questions (under 24h) Instructor covered a lots of things (MEAN stack + Ionic + a lots of javascript libraries) In some parts he explains ok Contra: Bad naming convention on some methods; Bad naming convention on folders / files (in the same folder of controllers to say, 1 file is named auth.controller.js the other one just posts.js ) When he started to create the app in the beginning , he created like 6 7 folders just to have them there, in my opinion I would create folders 1 by 1 , when i need them. too many divs ( could be done in half of them) in angular section you could construct just 1 time at least a service or a module from scratch and explain why that and that , after that you can use cli and explain is much faster And the thing I hated the most … frequently copies code , a lots of lines, after that deleting, adding , deleting… kinda loses you. As a personal choice i followed his tutorial , but i used Angular Material instead of Materialize, Mongo DB Compass Community instead of Robo3T. Overall I recommend this course, only if you have a little bit of knowledge/experience with Angular, Node. I really love the app, a lots of features!

What I can say? It’s a great tutorial. I think is the best that I found until now. Thanks, a lot!

A lot of the course lessons are not updated, the instructor doesn’t know to answer questions and can’t help with errors. Very poor course.