We've now been writing some awesome AngularJS code at BuildZoom for nearly a year. It's helped us release great features faster and provided for a significant ease of maintenance over the previously used "classical" jQuery. One issue that became apparent was the delay in rendering the templates and data client-side. The extra round trips for various JS libraries and the … [Read more...]

Thanks for checking out BuildZoom! We help people remodel their homes by looking at the building permit records (55 million permits indexed so far) for millions of contractors. Let's say a contractor has worked in your neighborhood 3 times in the past year . We view that as a positive signal that the contractor is getting word of mouth business because they do a good job. We … [Read more...]

Last week at BuildZoom, we rolled out a complete rework of how homeowners manage their remodeling projects through our service. Since deploying our first feature that leveraged the AngularJS JavaScript framework six months ago, the magnitude of the angular code we’ve sent to production has increased with every release. This latest release continues the trend, leveraging a slew … [Read more...]