Sample AngularJs On GitHub?

gaillimh

Hi.
My first time posting in the Dev section here so hope this is the correct place for this.
Anyway to cut a long story short I have been working as a developer since September 2003.
Mainly .Net C# web forms, SQL Server, JavaScript etc.
And mainly with the same company which would be slow enough to change.
Have only in the last twelve months for example had exposure to MVC & that was only because I took it upon myself to use it for a small project.
Company I work for was acquired by another last year and since then I have found that I do very little actual development work anymore.
I spend most of my time messing around with Dynamics CRM and doing estimates and helping the support guys out.
I can't see this situation changing anytime soon so I'm starting to have a look around to see what Dev jobs are out there as this is what I enjoy doing & want to be doing.
I had started looking at Angular in my own time shortly after Xmas and had to park that for a while as we had a new arrival in the house 6 weeks ago.
So I'm looking to get into that and do some sample projects to get up to speed.
I have seen GitHub mentioned as a good place to put up examples of stuff you have done which can demonstrate a capability in a technology to prospective employers.

I'm just wondering would anyone have an idea of the type of functionality you would want to be demonstrating in a sample project like that to show that you understand it/are able to implement something meaningful?

Sorry for the long post but any opinions/suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks

colm_c

Github is good, but it's not the be all and end all.

A lot of people, including myself have lots of commits on github, but they're all private repos with the odd contribution to open-source/libraries/bug fixes.

If you want to be an angular developer, you really need some commercial projects under your belt to talk about with prospective employers.

If you don't have any in your current job, then you need to make some in your free time, I'm sure like every developer you have some hobby or niche application that you want to build for yourself.

I don't really look for a portfolio when hiring anyone outside of a recent graduate, I want them to tell me about their projects they've worked on, what was difficult, what is cool, what's new, how they approached it, are they into it, are they passionate.

Then there's obviously the technical tests, which will actually tell me if they've got the right skills and attitude.

Building some projects in angular will give you both of the above, but be prepared if you are going to look for angularJS roles that you will need to know it inside out for anything other than a graduate role.

atwal

Hi Colm_c, I also find in the similar situation. I do c# oracle plsql programming I have done ASP.NET programming. I am familiar with AngularJS but as the our company is not doing any project work towards AngularJS or using any of the latest javascript frammeworks its hard to get commercial experience. Also who would give a project to the freelance developers who do not have experience with these technologies. Maximum we can do it learn these technologies, develop some comprehensive applications and gain experience, would that help or the doors are closed for us and we have become legacy already?? Thanks.

colm_c

atwal wrote: »

Hi Colm_c, I also find in the similar situation. I do c# oracle plsql programming I have done ASP.NET programming. I am familiar with AngularJS but as the our company is not doing any project work towards AngularJS or using any of the latest javascript frammeworks its hard to get commercial experience. Also who would give a project to the freelance developers who do not have experience with these technologies. Maximum we can do it learn these technologies, develop some comprehensive applications and gain experience, would that help or the doors are closed for us and we have become legacy already?? Thanks.

If you want to change direction of your career and your company is not going where you want to go, you have a few options:

- make the case for AngularJS and other new frameworks in your company by talking to your managers and presenting solid facts (not opinion) around why they are better.
- learn AngularJS in your spare time, create a number of projects to learn it.
- leave and go to a company who are using angularJS, ideally you should go for a role that is part AngularJS and part what you do already. From there build up experience

Probably you can do all of these, but again it does depend on your career goals.