Josh Crowther

Software Engineer @ Google - Web Platform advocate, husband, gamer, and dog lover.

Josh Crowther

Lazy Loading with Firebase 4.1.x

June 5, 2017 • ☕️ 1 min read

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Last week the Firebase team released version 4.1.0 of the JS SDK. This minor version introduces lazy loading of the Firebase SDK. The Firebase JS SDK provides a lot of functionality (Authentication…

Linking Polymer Model Updates to AngularJS Digest Cycle

July 13, 2015 • ☕️ 2 min read

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A few weeks ago I wrote a post on [Using Polymer WebComponents with Angular.js. I had the opportunity to revisit the post, wanted to share my thoughts

Polymer dom-repeat filtering and sorting

June 9, 2015 • ☕️ 3 min read

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With all of the great updates that came associated with the Polymer 1.0 release, I wanted to take some time to shed light on one of my favorites.

Upgrading from Polymer v0.5 to v1.0

June 1, 2015 • ☕️ 4 min read

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Last week I was able to attend a Google I/O extended in Bluffdale Utah and it was awesome. There were a ton of cool things announced in the Android space but for me the best part was, by far, the announcing of Polymer 1.0!

Using Polymer WebComponents with Angular.js

May 26, 2015 • ☕️ 3 min read

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Polymer and Angular.js are two incredibly popular projects that are run by Google. The two projects serve different purposes yet can, with some coercion, be made to work together.

Angular.js (1.x) $http interceptors

May 19, 2015 • ☕️ 2 min read

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I have been using Angular.js for a while now and of all of the features that exist, the one that I have the most fun using is the $http interceptor!

Internationalization (i18n) and Polymer Web Components

May 11, 2015 • ☕️ 1 min read

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As I have been working with Web Components solving the implementation of internationalization has been a unique challenge! I figured it merited some further discussion.

Setting up Polymer.js (0.5)

May 3, 2015 • ☕️ 2 min read

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This is the currently recommended way to manage your web components.

Hello World

April 29, 2015 • ☕️ 1 min read

And so it begins!