The Life of a Developer Advocate and How to be a Better Developer with John Papa
Working as a Developer Advocate is all about sharing experience and showing people new ways of doing things. John Papa has been coding for most of his life and a developer advocate for the past 10 years. He loves making contributions that make code easier so developers can focus on the real problems.
John Papa’s work as an advocate includes a variety of methods to promote development in the community.
In Angular, John's work has played a key role in developer's lives. He recently wrote VS Code snippets for Angular to help make writing Angular code easier. His snippets allow Angular developers to get rid of much boiler plate and add consistency to their code.
John also played an integral part in creating the style guide for Angular and AngularJS. His style guide work for Angular played a significantly into the opinions Angular-CLI gives developers.
John is always encouraging people to get more involved in their development communities. He recommends getting on social media and engaging in conversations, contributing to open source projects, building extension tools, and finding other ways to help developers in their work.
You will often find him presenting at conferences and events. He stresses the importance of participating in hallway conversations and views this as a great way to see what people are saying about different tools. By talking to people between sessions and listening to people’s concerns as a developer advocate, he is able to help give that feedback to core teams and make improvements all around.
To keep track of the great work that John Papa is doing, you can follow him on Twitter @John_Papa
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