The web development landscape is evolving rapidly, and artificial intelligence is playing a significant role in this transformation. Tracy Lee, CEO at ThisDotLabs and RxJS Core Team member, shares her insights on the current state of the industry and her upcoming session at Frontend Nation, where she'll explore the integration of AI capabilities into Angular applications.

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Here are the highlights of our talk.

Ana Marija Majkić (AMM): Tell us a bit about your background.

Tracy Lee (TL): My excitement for development really took off around 2015 when ES2015 was released. I found the innovation happening on the web at that time truly exhilarating. And now, after the COVID period, it's thrilling to see another renaissance of innovation unfolding.

AMM: What current frontend trends are you most excited about?

TL: I'm really excited that many modern frameworks are now providing performance optimization out-of-the-box. A few years ago, developers were stressing about having to learn performance techniques, contributing to JavaScript fatigue from trying to pick up too many new things. But now that framework authors are baking in performance by default, it's amazing to see how far we've come as an industry. You see this with features like deferrable views and island architecture in Angular, and the exciting work happening in React as well.

AMM: What would you like to see improved in the frontend ecosystem?

TL: One area I'd love to see improved is more communication and collaboration between the people and teams building different frameworks and libraries. The more we can share knowledge and ideas across communities, the faster we'll be able to push the entire ecosystem forward together.

AMM: What is your largest passion as a developer?

TL: My biggest passion is educating others and bringing developers together to spark new conversations around innovation. There's nothing more exciting than seeing different ideas merge and evolve into new concepts that propel technology forward. The faster we can facilitate knowledge-sharing and develop better tools and frameworks, the easier all our lives as developers will become.

AMM: How do you envision the future of web development?

TL: The future of web development is rapidly evolving with the rise of AI capabilities. It's amazing to think we now have tools that can handle lower-level tasks for us. But I think one key challenge we face is how to make AI tools accessible for less experienced developers in the same way seasoned developers can utilize them. I don't have the full answer yet, but I'm really excited to see how our community collectively figures this out over the next few years.

Bringing AI Capabilities to Angular Apps

Building on her insights about the exciting future of AI-powered development, Tracy Lee's session will dive into leveraging next-gen Angular features like Signals and Material 3 to build an AI chatbot integrated with AstraDB. Attendees can look forward to learning about Signals vs Observables, migrating to Material 3, using Signals in their apps, and harnessing AI capabilities within Angular applications.

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