The Angular change detection mechanism is much more transparent and easier to reason about than its equivalent in AngularJs. But there are still situations (like when doing performance optimizations) when we really need to know what's going on under the hood. So let's dig deeper into change detectio
This post is an in-depth comparison between the two different alternatives for building forms in Angular - Template Driven Forms and Reactive Forms.
This post is part of the ongoing Angular Architecture series, where we cover common design problems and solutions at the level of the View Layer and the Service layer. Here is the full series: * View Layer Architecture - Smart Components vs Presentational Components * View Layer Architecture - Conta
In this post, we are going to walk through how Angular applications can be built in a Functional Reactive style using the RxJs library that is part of Angular (see Managing State in Angular Applications by Victor Savkin (@victorsavkin). We will go over the following topics: * The difficulty of handl
This post is a beginner-friendly introduction to the concepts of RxJs streams, Observables, operators and Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) in general. No prior RxJs knowledge is necessary.
In this post we will explore how to design an Angular application according to the Flux architecture, by using the Redux and Immutable.js libraries. We will go over the following topics: * The challenges of building large scale single page apps * Three types of state in an app * The Flux architectur
Although the Router part of Angular is still changing a lot, the public API for building components is already quite stable. In this post we will go through on how we can build components with this new version of Angular, based on some code examples. In this post we will learn the essentials of how