AngularJS to Angular 19
At nemlig.com I led the migration of a legacy AngularJS codebase to Angular 19, as a gradual migration rather than a big-bang rewrite.
Captain's Chest · The Captain
Nicki Skipper Otte
Frontend developer in Denmark, sailing under the Angular flag. Online I go by CaptainDuckay, and everything in this chest is something I built, on my own time and my own terms.
Ship's papers
- Rank
- Frontend Developer
- Ship
- Metroselskabet
- Flag
- Angular
- Home waters
- Denmark
- At sea since
- Feb 2016 (10 years)
- Sails as
- CaptainDuckay
Under the Angular flag
Angular is my framework of choice, from AngularJS days to zoneless signals. Some of what I've done with it:
Icons for Angular
Material Symbols Rounded Icons: publishable standalone component libraries, in outline and filled variants. Every icon on this site comes from them.
This very ship
captains-chest.com runs on Angular 22: standalone, zoneless and signal-based, prerendered and served from Cloudflare's edge, with incremental hydration.
Conventions, written down
The Angular conventions I code by, from component cuts to signal forms and resources, are agent skills in the School.
How I work
Freedom under responsibility
I do my best work with real ownership: the trust to make technical decisions and the backing to carry them out, without a chain of sign-offs in the way.
Own the direction
I'd rather lead the technical direction than follow it. Taking a problem from the first sketch to launch is where I'm most useful.
A process that fits the crew
I pick the way of working that suits the team and the problem, not the mainstream framework by default. By-the-book Scrum rarely fits how I work; short feedback loops and shared ownership do.
Good crews ship good work
Agile only works when people feel safe to ask, try and fail. I put real effort into keeping the environment around me positive.
The way I write code is written down too, as agent skills: the tenets of the School.
Ship's log
Copenhagen
Metroselskabet
The company that builds and runs the Copenhagen Metro.
Frontend Developer Now
– present
- Angular
- Figma
Charlottenlund
Edora
A software consultancy: custom development, IT consulting and support.
Senior Developer
–
- C#
- .NET Framework
Brøndby
nemlig.com
Denmark's online grocery store.
Software Developer
–
Led the migration of a legacy AngularJS codebase to Angular 19.
- Angular
- AngularJS
- SEO
- Kubernetes
Frontend Developer
–
- Kubernetes
- Helm Charts
Odense
evercall ApS
Software Engineer
–
- PHP
- React
Data technician apprentice, programming
–
- PHP
- Linux
- Zabbix
- Asterisk
- Kamailio
What I build on the side
Hailing the ship?
I'm not looking for a new role. I've found a crew that gives me the freedom and trust described above, and that's rare enough that I'm staying aboard. I'm always glad to talk frontend, Angular or tooling, though.