This time I’ve got an interesting batch of conference talks, as I listened to talks from recent conferences, like ngConf and Uphill Conf. ngConf is the probably the biggest Angular conference in the world and I would love to attend it someday! (Watching live feeds from people on Twitter made me envy them so much…) 1. Conference talks >> “Wrapping it up with decorators” by Nicole Oliver Decorators are probably the most underused TypeScript feature when developing Angular apps (at least for me). They let you modify existing functionalities of class and its members. First time I’ve heard of an idea of decorators was in Java (there called “annotations”). They are part AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming) and allow you to extract repeatable functionality and reuse it. It takes shape of a function of a certain type (different type for class, field or method to decorate). Nicole shows us not only how to create and use basic decorator in TS. She also shows us how they work...