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With NgRx Effects, There’s A Place for Every Mapper!
Mapping operators. If you have been doing NgRx for any amount of time, you are probably aware of the contention that often surrounds which mapping operator should be used in effects. Contention, and confusion, and an oft-changing roadmap. Every mapper in its...
3 ways to use Angular HTTP Interceptors
Angular HTTP Interceptors provide a flexible mechanism to control your application when dealing with network-related resources. They're similar to middle-ware in other frameworks and allow network logic to be abstracted and reused. Resources To Follow ? Demo App ...
Not going to conferences is costing you too much – Here’s two reasons why
I have been a professional developer for over 20 years. I officially started learning to code on my TRS-80 Color Computer about 35 years ago. I grew up in a very rural area — Chimney Rock, CO — and there might have been 50 people in a 5-mile radius. Being in such a...
Visual Testing with Cypress
Testing is a very important part of the software development cycle and has become much easier than when I started out as a developer. The tools continue to improve and the techniques are far more sophisticated. We are able to write unit, integration, and end to end...
Introducing NgRx Auto-Entity
Like recent opinions about Redux, NgRx may also evoke concurrent feelings of both love and hate, as there are indeed things to adore…and sometimes things to loath about the framework as it has been implemented thus far today. The terms “boilerplate” and “heavy code” and “tedium” may come to mind, as sadly these are some of the natural side-effects of NgRx due to its (purposeful) design.
I’m not ready for NgRx
Angular has come a long way since I started using it back in 2013. The days of "$scope" and massive views/controllers have been replaced with component-based architectures and more elegant patterns. One of the more popular patterns over the past year or so is NgRx....
Making Use of WebSockets in Angular — Way Easier Than You Expected
Using WebSockets may seem daunting, but they are delightfully simple. And what you'll be really glad to know, is that RxJs ships with a thin wrapper around the native browser WebSocket client. No additional third party dependencies are needed, and you get an...
Angular: How to Implement Drag and Drop in a Material tree
The Material CDK released Drag and Drop in version 7, and it offers a powerful api for supporting drag and drop in your Angular app! The Material Tree is also a recent addition to Material, and it makes it possible to display structured data like a file explorer....
Angular Material Modal Schematic
I have to admit, I wasn't aware of this until I saw this tweet and the ensuing thread: While I may not personally hate dialogs, I definitely see the merits in the argument against them and agree that there are likely much better UX alternatives. However, as...
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