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Brady Kelly2-Aug-17 8:34
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I've just bought the book ng-book - The Complete Guide to Angular 4[^], and have been working through the chapters and examples. Unfortunately, the further I get into the book, the more the quality declines, with erroneous and or incomplete code examples.

Now I have been able to debug and get running all examples without having to download the example code, until now. Now that I have cloned that code, I see just how crap it is, and how rushed a small effort it must have been to get that ready for the book. Where the book teaches you how to neatly factor you app into several components, template, and sometimes styling files, in my cloned example code, each application has all code crammed into one app.ts file! Just that is alone bad practice, then much less readable and understandable than if the author coded like he tells us to code.

I am now stuck on one problem I can't debug myself, and the only recourse I have (except to hire someone on Fiverr) is a sh*tty single channel, no threading, conversation on Gitter, the star of today's collaboration networking tools.

I think I read somewhere that the book and code started out open source, and that seems true because the book is fast becoming the same quality of most open source documentation: crap.

Has or is anyone else worked through this book, and what is your opinion, and maybe a suggestion of a not-official forum or something I can use to discuss specific examples and pieces of code from this bound volume of toilet paper?
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