There are many ways how IntelliJ IDEA can boost your productivity by raw input speed. Firstly, there is Code Completion which is a standard for most code editors, and offers a great deal of help. Secondly, there is Postfix Completion. Maybe this name doesn’t sound familiar to you but you are probably using it already. […]
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This Article is based on Kara Ericksons talk about “Angular Forms” at the Angular Connect 2017. I am going to give you a quick example to get started with nested Forms. TL;DR Extract the HTML in new ComponentInject ControlContainer in new ComponentAccess the Form via ControlContainer.controlpass the parent Form into the nested Component with the […]
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When it came to building a Flutter MVP application, I was very dissatisfied with the existing Flutter Images. They were outdated by many many versions. Therefore I created an image reflecting the current version of Flutter. The source is on Github, you can find the Image ‘kattwinkel/flutter-android’ on Docker Hub. A minimal .gitlab-ci.yml file might just […]
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My guess is your using Angular in combination with Angular Material and you desperately need a sticky footer, ideally, in a variable height. No need to look any further. This article will provide you with a basic solution for given circumstances. This article was updated and tested for Angular 7 and Material 2 Version 7.1.1 […]
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Since the release of Angular 7, the Angular CDK includes a feature that can improve the performance of your application dramatically. Virtual scrolling is highly beneficial for dealing with a lot of data in tables or lists. You can improve performance for large lists in Angular with the Angular CDK virtual scrolling component. What is […]
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Problem You probably already run into this issue. Inside a component, you want to react to the change of an @Input() value e.g. by calling a method of your component. For example we have get an @Input() filter: string from our parent component and if the @Input() changes, we want to update our data in […]
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Problem When using the built-in Angular Internationalization (i18n) the Angular guide tells you in detail what you have to do to set up your application to support multiple languages. The guide lacks the details on how to properly integrate the build into a common web application deployment workflow. In this brief blog post I’m going to […]
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Currently there is no official release of Docker available for Ubuntu 18.10. Therefore you’ll run into errors like this one: 

But there is already a way to utilize the test repo to have Docker for Ubuntu 18.10:

Before you apply this fix, please check if the official resources have been updated at: https://docs.docker.com/install/linux/docker-ce/ubuntu/

With the @HostBinding() annotation, Angular gives you a useful tool to handle manipulations of css classes of parent Elements. The advantage is quite clear, the required logic remains in the components class and is not set in the template file. This makes it easier to test and improves the readability of the template file. In […]
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tl;dr Use Node Package local-web-server and its command ws with the spa flag like this: ws --spa index.html While developing an Angular based SPA usually you will use the Angular CLI as build too. The CLI has an integrated development server which is able to handle client-side routing. So whenever a reload happens and you’re […]
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