Angular is where Briebug made its name
Angular Project Rescue
Your Angular application is stuck on an old version, every release breaks something, or the team that built it is gone. We assess what is wrong, stabilize it, and hand it back to your team, running.
What goes wrong in Angular projects
Stuck several versions behind
Each skipped Angular upgrade makes the next one harder. Eventually the app runs on a version that no longer gets fixes, and nobody wants to start the upgrade.
Tests that broke and stayed broken
The Jest or Cypress suites failed after an upgrade, so the team stopped trusting them. Now every change is a gamble.
State scattered across components
Data lives in services, components and subscriptions at the same time. A fix in one screen breaks another, and nobody can say why.
Several apps, no shared code
The main app, the admin portal and the mobile app each copy the same code, so every change has to be made three times.
A mobile app that can no longer ship
The mobile build depends on deprecated Cordova tooling or an expired store account, so updates cannot reach your users.
Manual releases
Builds are deployed by hand, so each release is different and a bad one is hard to roll back.
How the rescue works
Assess, stabilize, hand it back. The same three steps as every Briebug rescue, applied to this stack.
Assess
Find out exactly what is wrong before you commit to fixing it.
- A fixed-fee review of the Angular code, its version and dependencies, the architecture, the pipeline and security
- A clear upgrade path: what has to change at each Angular version, and what can wait
- A triage report of what to fix in what order, and a milestone-based estimate
Stabilize
Stop the bleeding first. Then deliver the roadmap.
- Repair the test suites first, so the upgrade is safe
- Upgrade Angular in supported steps, and give state a clear structure, for example with NgRx
- Bring related apps into an Nx monorepo with shared libraries, where that removes duplicated work
- Automate the build and release pipeline, then deliver the roadmap
Hand it back
A project your team can run without us.
- Documentation of what we changed and why
- Pairing with your engineers until they own the Angular code and the process
- An optional senior oversight retainer after handback
Case studies
PSIA / SnowPro
Education, certification and membership platform for ski instructors
Angular 7 to 17and .NET Core 3.1 to .NET 8 (LTS)
- Problem
- Angular 7 and .NET Core 3.1 nearing end of life, failing test suites, and infrastructure that depended on a third party.
- What we found
- Jest and Cypress suites that broke during the upgrade, an end-of-life identity server, WordPress plugins that failed on PHP 8, and a planned Azure subscription transfer that risked major downtime.
- Result
- Angular 7 to 17, .NET Core 3.1 to .NET 8, working test suites, and repositories, pipelines and documents in an Azure DevOps environment PSIA owns.
Restore United
Business management platform for restoration companies
- Problem
- Technical debt was slowing the product: outdated Angular, manual deployments, an incomplete QuickBooks integration, and a mobile app that could no longer ship.
- What we found
- Deprecated Cordova mobile tooling, an expired Android developer account, features left incomplete by an old QuickBooks integration, and a production TLS certificate problem.
- Result
- Current Angular in an Nx monorepo, CI/CD into AWS, secrets in Secrets Manager, a working QuickBooks integration, and mobile apps that can ship again.
Strata GPO
Member portal for a group purchasing organization
2,137customer accounts created in Microsoft Entra on release night, with zero errors
- Problem
- An independent security assessment flagged critical weaknesses in a live portal that thousands of members use every day.
- What we found
- Credentials stored in the portal's own database with no second factor, internal services that did not check callers, hardcoded secrets, and manual releases.
- Result
- MFA sign-in through Microsoft Entra, every service verifying every caller, secrets in Key Vault, and automated, scanned releases. 2,137 accounts migrated with zero errors.
Payzer
Field service software for the trades (a WEX company)
9 daysearly: every release feature done by April 21, ahead of the April 30, 2025 release date
- Problem
- A rebuild of the contractor mobile app from AngularJS to modern Angular, with a hard April 30, 2025 release date and not enough velocity to hit it.
- What we found
- A technical assessment measured velocity against the backlog and sized the gap: three Angular engineers and two native mobile engineers.
- Result
- Every release feature done by April 21, nine days early. The app released to its first customers, with Cypress tests in the pipeline.
FedEx
International express clearance and brokerage technology
8s to under 1sfor a key operations query, in initial testing
- Problem
- Several high-stakes clearance programs, including a legacy system retirement and an EU customs launch, all competing for the same small group of domain experts.
- What we found
- Air waybill logic locked inside the legacy system, a broken test suite on the EU launch, 8-second queries, and EU and non-EU code tangled together.
- Result
- A new air waybill service to replace the legacy logic, the EU customs soft launch pushed to production, and a key query cut from 8 seconds to under 1.
ReachWell
Public-sector communications SaaS for K-12 and local government
Disclosure: ReachWell is a Briebug affiliate (a related party), not an arm's-length client.
- Problem
- A legacy CakePHP and jQuery application sent messages from schools, counties and nonprofits, and some admin screens did not work.
- What we found
- A new Angular front end, a REST API in place of the PHP back end, a message queue for reliable delivery, and accessibility and tests built in.
- Result
- The rewritten platform went into service on June 1, 2026, and the new website and admin app launched in October 2026.
More Angular case studies
- BACB: an outside Angular review before adding new modules
- Crownpeak: an architecture review of a mixed AngularJS and Angular UI
- Emagispace: a code assessment and team training for an internal ERP
- NETSCOUT: a migration strategy to move a monitoring UI off AngularJS
- SwitchDin: an architecture review and mentoring plan for two stalled Angular projects
- JPMA: an embedded team behind the WICShopper platform since 2016
- NetApp: faster pipelines and an Angular 11 upgrade for an HCI team
- Eberl Claims: an embedded team that shipped a cross-platform adjuster app
- ERCOT: embedded developers and solution architecture for a grid application
- nVoq: embedded developers to build a new Angular admin app
- SaQus: an embedded senior developer to raise quality through testing
- Scaled Agile: discovery, development and enablement for an AngularJS to Angular rebuild
- Schedulicity: embedded engineers for an AngularJS migration alongside new features
- Global water-quality instrumentation company: a senior team that moved legacy AngularJS apps to Angular
- Vantor: an embedded Angular team, renewed every year since 2018
- The largest internet radio company in the US: an embedded Angular architecture and web-commerce team, renewed since 2019
- Heartland Community College: a strategic planning app, live before the deadline
More rescues, on every stack, in all case studies.
Start with the Technical Assessment.
A fixed fee of $10K and about one week. You get a comprehensive report, a triage report of what to fix in what order, and a milestone-based estimate for the work.