General

• The source code can be found on github: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular
• There's a project board on waffle.io: https://waffle.io/DSpace/dspace-angular

How to contribute

Prerequisites

• You'll need to be in the dspace-angular github team to get the required access. Send your github username to Art Lowel (Atmire) to get an invite.
• Fork the repository on Github

Workflow

• Have a look at the project board

• Take an issue that’s in the ready section and has nobody assigned to it

• assign yourself

• When you start working on it, move the issue to the “in progress” section

• Work on a separate branch for the issue on your fork

• When you’re ready, fire a pull request

• in the comments of the pull request, write something akin to “this PR connect’s to #{the ID of the issue}”. That way the issue will be moved automatically to the review column.

• When at least two people have reviewed and approved your PR, it can be merged in master.

• You can also help out by reviewing the pull requests of other people

• Please keep an eye on your pull request afterwards, the reviewers may have questions or comments about it, or ask you to tackle things in a different way, before they can approve it

• Most discussions about the task or the pull request can happen through the github & project board comments.

• If it’s more complex you can bring it up in one of these meetings.

• After your Pull Request has been merged, drag the issue to the done column on the project board. (this can also be automated by adding “this merge closes #{the id of the issue}” in the merge comment.

Learning Resources

General

• https://angular.io/styleguide - The official Angular2 for TypeScript Style Guide
• https://angular.io/docs/ts/latest/ - The official documentation for Angular 2 (with TypeScript). Includes a "5-min quick start", "step-by-step guide" and official API docs
• https://github.com/angular/angular - The official codebase for Angular 2. Where to submit issues, follow the code progression, etc.
• http://angularjs.blogspot.com/ - The Angular blog, which contains updates and blog posts from the Angular team.
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/angular - Google Group for Angular 1 or 2 discussions.
• https://angularair.com/ - A live video podcast all about Angular
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/npm-check-updates - A npm package for dependency management
• Scotch.io has a bunch of articles on various angular 2 topics

Typescript

• http://www.typescriptlang.org/ - The official documentation for the TypeScript language. Includes links to sample code, as well as a live in-browser editor/samples.
• See also the TypeScript Guidelines on the Prototype's wiki

RXJS

RxJS is used as part of angular 2 to deal with asynchronous data. A good grasp of RxJS is essential to write robust angular 2 code.

• A general introduction to Reactive Programming
• There are a bunch of resources on RxJS’ github
• Decision trees to find which operator to use when creating new sequences or using existing sequences → these are very useful during development

Universal

Universal is the angular sub-project that allows for angular apps to be rendered server-side

• Here‘s a high level document explaining it
• There are some videos on their github page
• William Welling has a test project to experiment with Angular Universal.

Redux

Redux is a set of design-patterns to manage state in a javascript application. 

• The concepts are explained clearly, though independently from angular in the main redux docs
• There is also a great free video course on egghead
• @ngrx is an implementation of Redux for Angular 2 using RxJS
• Ducks is a way to structure redux applications to keep them as modular as possible that works well in practice.