Components
Simple Angular dialogs with the Angular CDK
The goal of this article
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RxJS
Complex Angular forms with validation
Sometimes forms in Angular can be a pain, and some of us have been struggling with them since the beta phases of Angular2. First there was only the template driven forms approach, and then later on the Angular core team introduced Reactive forms. Both solutions still exist today, but the community s
RxJS
Breaking out of the comfort zone
The people that are used to read my articles will quickly realise that this is not the type of articles I generally write. Since I’m passionate about this subject, I’m going to write about it anyway. Bear with me, you might take away something from it. If not, at least you gave it a shot, right? I’m
SSR & Hydration
Conditional api urls in Angular with injection tokens
Using env.js files When we deploy our Angular application, chances are big that we will let our data-access layer connect to another api url than the one we connect to in development. This means that this api url should be configurable at some point. There are multiple ways of working with environme
State
Routed Angular dialogs
This article should be a rather short one. It’s about how we can create dialogs in Angular. Using dialogs in Angular can be tackled in complex ways but can be easy as well. When I started out with Angular I created this article. This is already 6 years ago at the time of writing this, and I believe
RxJS
Angular interview questions for catching senior talent
Companies ask me to take care of technical interviews from time to time. Having done quite a lot of these interviews, I learned a lot from them. By helping out a lot of different clients, I also have been on the other side of the table more than a few times too. This means I have learned some patter
Router
Why and how I created a SPA router for Qwik
The why
RxJS
Reactive dumb components
How to make dumb components reactive without imperative ngOnChanges programming
RxJS
How covid affected StrongBrew
What is the future of StrongBrew? How were we impacted by COVID?
Components
Managing state in Angular
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Components
A generic way of handling loading-status, saving-status and validation errors in Angular
In this article we are going to implement a generic solution on how to fix 3 common usecases that involve redundancy in CRUD applications.
Forms
Opinionated guidelines for large nx angular projects
About this article
RxJS
Safe HTTP calls with RxJS
How to make sure our ajax calls are being executed on bad connections
RxJS
Building a safe autocomplete operator in RxJS
A well-known use case of RxJS is creating a simple autocomplete search in only a few lines of code. This article is not just about creating our own autocomplete operator, we will create an autocomplete operator that is completely safe (we will cover the perception of safe later in this article).
RxJS
Thinking reactive with the SIP principle
A few months back we released RxJS best practices in Angular and a while before that Thinking reactively in Angular and RxJS. Both of these articles are focussing on “trying to make the mind switch towards reactive programming”.
State
Do we really need Redux or @ngrx/store
This article explains the cases when Redux is a good idea or when it is overkill for your application
SSR & Hydration
Pre-rendering Angular Applications
Learn how to use Server-side rendering to prerender our Angular application at build time.
RxJS
RxJS best practices in Angular
This article is all about the do’s and don’ts when it comes to writing reactive applications with RxJS in Angular applications.
Components
Safe image requests in angular
Since the browser just loads this image through a normal HTTP call, how is the server supposed to know if user A or user B is trying to consume an image? The server needs some kind of authorization to be passed to it. This article explains how to add security to images in Angular.
RxJS
Thinking reactively in Angular and RXJS
RxJS is an awesome library that can help us with creating reactive web applications. Reactive web applications can be overwhelming in the beginning, but eventually, they can be really rewarding.This article is all about making the paradigm switch from thinking imperatively towards thinking reactivel
RxJS
Infinite scroll in Angular an RxJS
This article explains how the “reactive-programming” approach helps us to create an awesome infinite-scroll-list in only a few lines of code. For this article, we are going to use RxJS and Angular.
State
Components demystified
These documents are the beginning of a book (or a collection of documents) that will explain SPA-principles in depth. SPA’s (single-page-apps) offer us the opportunity to create responsive userfriendly webapplications that have a native look-and-feel. However, with great power comes great responsabi