About Tangential

Developers love their frameworks, there's definitely passion in the arena. But, at the end of the day, a framework is just another hammer in the toolbox. If it doesn't let you build your app, it's worthless - or worse. And if it does let you build your app, neither end-users nor management is going to care much which framework you used to do it.

Tangential works to bootstrap you past that horrible new-project phase. No need to write Yet Another IAM package. Easy to follow steps for connecting analytics, and even advertising.

We'd love your feedback - and even your contributions, if you're up for it. Check us out on github.

Tangential is still very much in early phases. It is growing as we use it to build out our 'proof of concept' cum validation project, SnapLog.io, which is a fully featured, ad-supported, analytics-enabled, mobile-oriented 'Life Journal'. SnapLog combines a purpose-driven form builder with long term tracking and correlation features, letting users track, for example, their mood and medication use, and correlate the two over time.

Tangential is already a great way to bootstrap your next personal project, or even something slightly larger in scale. For small sites that need to deploy a single web site or web application, but don't want to deal with hosting, or implementing user management from scratch, you'll have a hard time finding anything more powerful.

Once we've hit release candidate we will update the project with licensing information. We have chosen to dual license Tangential because we would like to continue to grow it. As donation schemes are rarely successful, this is the only option we know of that has the potential to fund Tangential in the long term. Should some anonymous, glorious, benefactors wish to commit to funding the project for a significant duration we'd gladly shift to MIT licensing.

Below is a list of major features. Do note that many of the widgets and components you find in the Tangential demo are actually available as separate NPM packages. E.g. the Admin Console can be used without committing to using the entire bootstrap.

Firebase Hosted

One server hosting. With Firebase Functions and some good Firebase Rule hygiene, you don't need a separate authentication server. How nice is that?

Angular Goodness

Angular 4+, at the moment. We'll keep the project dependencies up to date

Built in IAM console

Create and assign new roles and permissions. It's basic at the moment, but growing.

Themed

Customizable Material Design themes.

Logging

Log to the browser console - you can see the output in the demo if you open your console

Google Analytics

Connect your Google Analytics account and get clean, easy to follow page and event tracking. don't have an Analytics account yet? We'll walk you through how to create one.

Google AdSense

We're still creating ad widgets, but connecting AdSense is as easy as adding your AdSense campaign id to the environments.ts file. No idea what we mean? AdSense is Google's ad serving service, and if you want to display ads in your web site or web app, we'll walk you through how to get started.

AoT Compilation

There are things you can't do if you want AoT to work in an Angular project. We don't do those things, so your project can benefit from pre-compiled code.

Lazy Loaded Modules

If only administrators can access the Admin Console, shouldn't it only load if the current visitor is an administrator? Exactly.

Tangential builds on some trusted, amazing projects. We keep up to date with Angular, hosting is provided by Firebase, analytics and advertising by Google.

Angular

The Angular teams have created an incredible framework. Amazingly powerful.

Font Awesome

Icons make the world go around.