Nrwl!

Pronounced "narwall" and featuring a narwhale in its logo, Nrwl is a consultancy which helps others with Angular projects. At least two people work at this consultancy as Victor Savkin (left) and Jeff Cross (right) presented themselves and their company at the end of the Tuesday at the AngularMix conference. Their talk, which you may see here, was a refreshing break after a series of talks exclusively by Google's own employees and the first of only two talks that I saw at the conference which had two speakers. Savkin and Cross are themselves Google escapees and have built out a lot of Angular and AngularJS before spinning up a company of their in 2016. They have a product called Nx to address common problems such as race conditions. They decried a lack of standards in Angular apps and have a generator that calls ngRx calls in a predictable way. There is a generator that will try to migrate your existing AngularJS app to Angular. They are making a wrapper for fakeAsync in testing to make it easier to use. Annotations and decorations came up in this talk. This suggests that annotations are a language feature taking the shape of an array of metadata bolted onto an instance of class while decorators are functions developers might make themselves taking in instances of classes and passing them through while bolting metadata onto them.