Integrating Angular-CLI into the VSTS build process and achieving optimal performance

Recently it’s been brought to my attention that an Angular 2 application I wrote was almost 1mb in size.  My application has a Bootstrap 3.0 dependency which is a likely contributing factor.  The concern (rightfully so) is that this may be contributing to a low conversion rate on our website; particularly on mobile devices.  Keep …

Integrating DevExtreme into an Angular CLI project

I’m a big fan of the Angular 2 framework, DevExtreme controls and most of all, Angular CLI.  Luckily the folks at DevExpress (makers of DevExtreme) have been nice enough to provide Angular 2 directives for their controls in an NPM package called devextreme-angular2.  Unfortunately, all of the existing code samples provided by DevExpress are based …