Declarative code: it’s a hot term in all types of programming. But what does it really mean? More importantly, how do you make the jump from understanding the concept to actually writing declarative code in your projects?
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Angular 
If your Angular application already uses NgRx, you know the value of writing good reducers and using one-way data flow. However, that knowledge may not be enough to keep the biggest form in your app from being a rat’s nest of FormGroups and related logic. Forget keeping components under 50 lines of code - your form logic alone blows past that.
Kyle Nazario
Design 
Application + style guide = smart buy
A recent project called for the creation of a single page site that would showcase a real estate agent’s expertise, sales history, professional connections, and various other impressive attributes. Pages would be generated using a fill-in-the-blank template. Eventually, two additional real estate agencies affiliated with our client would make their own versions of the page, identical in function, but with slight changes in styling and content. Future brand-specific styling variations would need to be documented somewhere, so Bitovi offered to provide a fill-in-the-blank re-usable style guide to go along with the template page. Both the template and the style guide could be cloned and restyled as many times as desired. Hence, our client bought themselves a cookie cutter vs. paying for one cookie at a time.
The Bitovi Team
Angular 
If you've recently made the switch to using Strict Mode for Angular, good job, you're on your way to writing better code and governing a more maintainable codebase! However, your team may encounter new TypeScript "errors" they haven't seen before, like "Property 'myClassMember' has no initializer and is not definitely assigned in the constructor.ts". To find out more about this error and how to resolve it using the Non-null Assertion Operator, check out my post on dev.to here: https://dev.to/bitovi/non-null-assertion-operator-in-angular-g5l
Jennifer Wadella
DevOps 
In a recent series of blog posts, I drew up how to go from a basic StackStorm installation and pack deployed using Ansible, to moving that entire custom deployment to a one-touch cloud deployment using BitOps while only modifying a handful of files in the process.
We only barely scratched the surface of our implementation, and we can always go further. One aspect I tried to be mindful of throughout the guides was the various ways of managing of secrets. In this guide we will detail how we can utilize an AWS Key Management Service (KMS) key as well as AWS Systems Manager (SSM) and Parameter Store to take that a step further.
In practical terms: we'll create a BitOps before hook script we use to retrieve all of the secret variables we need from AWS, and demonstrate how we can load those into the BitOps container environment for usage within our existing Ansible StackStorm playbook.
Dylan Lundquist
Angular
Psst, hey you! Are you looking for a place to grow your Angular skills by working on interesting projects with fabulous teammates?
At Bitovi we’re expert developer consultants that care about our craft and care about helping our customers achieve success in their software products. We invest ourselves fully in client success and make sure we bring the development knowledge & consulting skills they need to achieve their goals.
Jennifer Wadella
Design
Learn how and why GreenSock became our animation pick
Feeling uncertain about how to add animation to a Web site or single page app? We’ve been in the same boat. There are plenty of CSS and JS animation frameworks available, ranging from free and easy (but limited and inflexible) to steeper learning curve, robust, can-do-almost-anything paid options. None are necessarily a “bad” choice, but you definitely don’t want to make a choice and find out later it can’t do everything you need, then have to start over with something new (losing valuable project time and developer resources, maybe even client confidence).
The Bitovi Team
It’s easy to get stuck in a rut when you are accustomed to using a particular language or framework. But have you taken a look at what Node.js has to offer?
Node.js has a robust package manager, broad AWS support, and potential for rapid development, and in our opinion, it stacks up against Java, Go, Ruby on Rails, and Python. Take a look at five reasons why Node.js might be the perfect framework for your next project.
The Bitovi Team
