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Case Study: Turning Around a Stalled Platform with Strategic Technical Leadership

Stabilizing Development, Restoring Confidence, and Building for Scale Overview A rapidly growing gifting platform approached Briebug during a period of significant dysfunction. Feature development had slowed to a crawl, releases were plagued with defects, and critical...

A Game-Changer for Software Development

The Repeal of Section 174: A Game-Changer for R&D Investment. Meanwhile, understanding Federal Reserve interest rate cuts are crucial for navigating economic landscapes. What Was Section 174? The Amortization Burden Under the rules effective from 2022 through...

Angular 19: The Most Transformative Angular Release Yet

Published: May 2025By Jesse Sanders, CEO of Briebug Angular 19 Angular 19, released in November 2024, is one of the most significant updates in the framework’s recent history. This version brings performance, developer experience, and scalability to the forefront —...

State of the Art: Angular State Management with NgRx SignalStore

State management is a cornerstone of modern Angular application development, ensuring consistency, scalability, and maintainability of the application state. While the traditional NgRx Store has long been a go-to solution, NgRx SignalStore emerges as a modern...

How to Use CodePush in React Native

Introduction So you’ve got a React Native application and things are going well: you write code and when you’re ready to release to your customers, you create your Google Play and App Store builds, fill in all the information, submit your builds and now you wait for...

Mastering Vue 3 Components: A Comprehensive Guide for Software Developers

One of the most powerful features of Vue is the ability to create custom components that can be easily reused across different parts of your application. Whether you're a seasoned Vue.js developer or just getting started with the framework, mastering Vue components...

Typed Forms in Angular 14+

Typed Forms are finally here! Bundled within the massive list of changes that were rolled out in Angular 14 was one of the most highly requested features, going back 4+ years on the request boards. As Angular is one of the only natively TypeScript frameworks it makes...

A Comparison of Angular, React, and Vue

Angular: The Full-Featured Framework As the landscape of web development continues to evolve, choosing the right framework for building modern applications has become increasingly crucial. Among the numerous options available, Angular, React, and Vue stand out as the...

Reactive State Management with async/await, NgRx ComponentStore, and Signals

In the ever-evolving world of frontend development, simplicity contributes to building robust and maintainable applications. As new paradigms and patterns evolve to enhance our workflows it’s common to see capability and complexity increase at the same pace. In this...

Intro to React Form Libraries

Intro Have you ever started a brand-new React project and thought, “Which form library should I use?” Or maybe you are in an existing projecting thinking, “There has to be a better way to do this.” The freedom within React to choose your own tools is a great feature,...

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Getting Started With Angular Progressive Web Apps (PWA)

Getting Started With Angular Progressive Web Apps (PWA)

What is a Progressive Web App (PWA)? Progressive web apps are a new way to deliver your content to the user. PWAs are built on top of the web platform and are designed to be installed on either mobile devices or desktop computers. There is actually a growing trend for...

What is a higher-order component in React?

What is a higher-order component in React?

A higher-order component is a technique that is available to us because of React's compositional nature. Specifically, a higher-order component is a function that takes a component as a parameter and returns a new component. const EnhancedComponent =...

Detecting Route Changes in Angular

Detecting Route Changes in Angular

How do I detect a route change in Angular? What a great, and actually very common, question about Angular! One of the fundamental and powerful features of Angular that provides the framework with a considerable advantage over non-framework development, is being an...

Intro to Angular Dependency Injection

Intro to Angular Dependency Injection

One of the great features built into Angular is its dependency injector. An Injector like the one included with Angular supports rich, configurable Inversion of Control, which is a key principle of software design that improves quality, flexibility, testability and...

UX vs. UI

UX vs. UI

So, UX vs. UI huh? Sorry to say but you've already been bamboozled by the title! There is no such thing as UX apart from UI because every UI produces a UX. And every UX design exists through a UI. While they are distinct from one another in that you can hire services...

The #1 Mistake Made in Agile Backlog Grooming

The #1 Mistake Made in Agile Backlog Grooming

If you’re familiar with Agile ceremonies, you’ve likely heard of backlog grooming, also known as backlog refinement. I love a good spoiler, so I will share right here at the beginning of this article that the number one mistake I see in backlog refinement is that it...

The Guide to Using Bootstrap With Angular

The Guide to Using Bootstrap With Angular

Intro Let's talk about how to add bootstrap to Angular. Not to be confused with that most famous footwear adorning the feet of the legendary cowboy, Bootstrap is an open-source CSS framework from Twitter. It comes loaded with classes, components and a ton of other...

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