Image by John Hain from Pixabay Wait… I’m a Sr. dev?! Maybe a better title would be “Don’t just take everything a Sr. dev suggests as the best way to do everything, because they can’t possibly know the best way to do everything!” But, that’s not click-bait-y enough. I bring this subject up because, Friday, I …
While the documentation of Angular routing is great, it does not cover some edge cases and troubleshooting of missing imports or duplicate paths in different submodules. So, in this story I decided to describe the ways you can break it. We will learn what can go wrong when configuring Angular routing and — through pain and suffering — how …
tldr; ng-template, ng-container, and ngTemplateOutlet provide the ability to reuse content inside an Angular component. Understanding what’s going on and how to use these methods allows a developer to build what they want without needing to duplicate parts of the template. Explanation of the Problem Have you ever needed to use *ngIf in your template, and …
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tldr; Each Angular component has a lifecycle that lasts from the time the component is added to the page until it is removed from the page. There are several times to hook into the lifecycle, where you can run some code necessary for the component. We’ll look at a few of the most common hooks. Angular …
tldr; Reactive forms in Angular are a convenient way to manage your forms and react to changes made by the user. One issue with them has been that the value of the form has not been typed. Because of this, you could improperly access a value from a form and not know until runtime. Angular …
tldr; For years, Angular has been organized and built on top of modules. These modules grouped functionality inside your app. Components, pipes, services, and directives that had related purpose were grouped together and declared inside modules, which would need to be imported in another part of the app to be used. This pattern works, and …
Introduction In this post, we will take a look at the Angular Material Form-Field Component. Why you would want to use a Form-Field component and what effect does it have on other components that are wrapped in a Form-Field. What we’ll cover in this post. What is a mat-form-field component?What components does form-field support?Styling a form-field …
Finite State Machine diagram courtesy of brilliant.org Introduction A Finite State Machine (FSM) is a theoretical model of computation based on a discrete, finite number of states. The machine can only be at one state at one ‘time’. Input data is provided to the machine along with a transition function for each state. The transition …
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In my previous story I described the concept of dependency injection in Angular through the metaphor of ordering coffee in a cafe. Players of dependency injection in Angular: provider, injector and requesting component Today we are going to have a look at a practical use case — how you can configure your apps with InjectionToken. Use Case Let’s …
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