Angular 11 was released few weeks ago and with it comes a large number of performance upgrades, bugfixes and improved logging. Not only was the upgrade from Angular V10 to V11 painless but I wanted to share with you the new Hot Module Replacement (HMR) feature. This has been exposed on the CLI if you […]
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Sometimes it is necessary in JavaScript to delay/sleep a program for a certain time. Therefore we can generate this behavior ourselves using a small helper function, thanks to the asynchronous nature of javascript. For example:

With this we can delay the program flow for a certain time in the following function

But it […]
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Angular delivers it’s own i18n (internationalizion) API. Although the implementation is already very extensive and mature, some use cases are not covered. This also includes changing the language at run-time. When implementing Angular, a build must exist for each language. To close this gap, packages have been created that extend the functionality. A representative of […]
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With the TS 3.7 Beta release the version is now feature-complete and brings some new additions to the playingfield. In this post we want to highlight two new features, which can be helpful to save code and make it less error prone. Optional Chaining First we want to have alook at a common situation: retrieving […]
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Some of you might have stumbled upon an unexpected error message, while updating your project from ng7 to ng8. We all know that. Everything runs smoothly and we use the last 10 minutes before heading off for the update. Not a major issue. Already having packed your stuff and ready to head home, you get […]
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Coming up with the idea Let me sketch the scenario which led me to implement the rear view mirror desktop application. I was trying to fix a rather strange bug, at some point I realized I was stuck and asked a colleague for help. When we both realized that we need to ask another developer […]
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In this blog article I would like to describe a stumbling block I stumbled across in my work. TypeScript (TS) is a very good way to increase productivity. The compiler and type system fix many software bugs before they occur. Also the possibility to translate into different versions of ECMAScript (ES) is a useful feature […]
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Challenge If you are working with tables which have a big amount of rows and columns, the performance can get worse if you don’t care for it. Especially if you have a large table with a lot of FormGroups inside. The following steps should clean up your code and increase the performance of your grid […]
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About Ng-dropping-stones is a small Tetris clone built with Angular 7. It can be played in the browser as well as on a raspberry pi based arcade machine, which we present at fairs (JavaLand, enterJS, Herbstcampus). History At first, ng-dropping-stones was designed for our arcade machine to present it on fairs. It was very well […]
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Problem When creating forms with Angular, many accesses take place in the template using strings. This makes it difficult to perform refactorings automatically. It would be so desirable: Status quo Also the FormBuilder does not manage to get the problems better under control. It is only a help for the creation of the data structure […]
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