Covalent 0.7 for Angular 2.0 Released
Just in time for the stable release of Angular 2.0, Covalent has received a massive update! Covalent is Teradata’s Open-Source Angular 2.0 Material Design UI Platform.
Congrats to the Angular 2 project & contributors! What a monumental world-wide open-source effort!
tl;dr: Supporting Angular 2 RC7, Angular-Material 2.0 alpha8, TypeScript 2.0, NgModule & umd.js. Adding new Mock API & Axure libraries.
Highlights:
- Angular 2.0 (stable + RC7) support (along w/ TypeScript 2.0)
- Angular-Material 2.0 alpha 8 support (tooltip, slider, button-toggle & menu)
- NgModule & umd.js bundle support
- Covalent Quickstart: complete overhaul to our Angular2 Material starter app
- Covalent Data: a mock API server Go client for prototyping
- Covalent Resources: Axure RP Libraries + Sketch App Template
Teradata UX made the right choice with ng2
4 months ago, after riding the ng2-high of ng-conf 2016, the newly formed Teradata UX team had a hackathon in Austin. We weighed Angular 1.x, Angular 2.x, React, and Polymer for the Teradata UI Platform (which became Covalent).
In true agile fashion, the team hacked over a week and presented their prototypes, and all agreed on Angular 2. It was still a fairly volatile dev environment, but we wanted to bank on the future as much as possible. Needless to say we’re pleased with that decision :)
Angular 2.0 Updates
There were a ton of last minute breaking changes in RC6 & RC7 for Angular 2, and Covalent now supports all of them. However, angular-cli now supports Webpack as a build option but there are several bugs, so despite our best efforts we won’t support that until our next release 0.8 in a few weeks.
Angular-Material 2.0 Alpha 8
Along with Angular RC7+ support, we also support the latest in Angular-Material (Design). There are still some key missing Angular-Material components, but you can feel the momentum gaining. Covalent is there for you, filling some value gaps (chips & autocomplete, stepper, expansions panels & so much MOAR).
New Axure Widgets Library
Axure RP is a key piece to the UX Design puzzle. We’ve crafted an extensive Covalent Axure RP widget library which is the seamless bridge from our Sketch template to production Angular 2.0 applications.
Covalent Data: Mock API Server
Anyone who’s ever prototyped in code knows the pain of creating mock data. It’s copy & paste hell and unmanageable.
A thrilling addition to the Covalent platform is the all new Go Mock Data API Server which ships with the Covalent Quickstart (or can be used standalone). We’ve created this incredibly powerful prototyping tool, which allows you to edit a simple YAML file to provide a schema for a completely local API server with mock data.
Covalent Data allows you to develop a prototype that will seamlessly segue into a production app, simply by changing a URL for an API endpoint.
Covalent Quickstart
The best Angular 2.0 Quickstart on the web
With the combination of Angular 2.0 updates, new Covalent components, Covalent Data, unit test and e2e test examples, and complex Material Design UX flows, the Covalent Quickstart app is truly your best entry into the Angular 2.0 world.
Soup-to-nuts, you can go from zero to production in the blink of an eye with the Covalent Quickstart.
Teradata Open Source: Powered by Covalent
Check out the new home for Teradata’s open source projects hosted on Github!
Improvements, Features, Bugfixes, Breaking Changes
Check out the full changelog for the tons of updates we’ve made in the past weeks.
What’s Next? Webpack, D3 Charts & MOAR!
We’ve already got a td-charts branch, building D3 v4 modular components in Covalent and Angular 2.0. We’ll have a preview ready by our next 0.8 release!
We’ll also continue working on our Webpack branch and hopefully have that ready as well.
Lastly, we’re extending the Covalent Quickstart to include Covalent Templates for app-specific UX such as Mail apps:
