The good thing about crisis situations is that they force you to think out of the box. If you have read my post about implementing continuous delivery, you know that I recommend the use of feature environments; an environment containing only a specific feature branch to QA a feature before it gets released. Let me tell a […]
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All You Need to Know About Mocking in Angular Tests
You probably know it is a good idea to test your Angular Apps because it pays for itself in the form of easier maintenance and fewer errors. As I explained in my guide to Angular testing, unit tests should be the bedrock of your test coverage as they are the cheapest to maintain. Compared to […]
Implementing a Plugin Architecture with Angular and OpenLayers
As an Angular app is growing, it becomes more important to care about the design of the app. I have previously written about how to apply the adapter pattern in Angular apps and how to refactor Angular apps, but this is a more general topic about a technique to scale the app without adding more complexity, […]
Visual Regression Testing with Protractor
The last couple of months I have been working a lot with DevOps and automation along with Angular development. One of the core principles in Continuous Delivery is having your back covered with automatic testing. Without this automatization in place, you are forced to manually regression test the whole app before every release, which will not […]
Dynamic Translations in Angular
Yet another post of me fixing something I find flawed about the way Angular wants you to do stuff. Just like the way Angular’s built-in way of handling environment configuration wants you to create a build for every environment, Angular’s internalization library wants you to have a separate build for every language. This is BOGUS and I have […]
Refactoring Angular Apps – How To Keep Angular Apps Clean
We have all been there. The app that once was this little cute baby has grown to this huge monster no one wants to get near. Every day you fight this monster but it only seems to get bigger, because your project keeps feeding it with short-term optimization by focusing on the next feature or […]
Using the Adapter Pattern in Angular Apps for Easier Maintenance
This post is based on something I learned that completely changed the way I designed Angular applications. Core UI components in the app such as buttons can change a lot, which can be a pain to maintain if you have to fix this in a lot of places. One example is using Angular Material buttons and […]
Life Saving Protractor Utilities to fix flaky end-to-end tests
A central part of testing Angular apps is to be able to automate the end-to-end testing so you don’t manually have to click through the app every time. This sounds reasonable in theory but often end-to-end tests can be fragile and expensive to maintain. When end-to-end tests become flaky they start to become useless: This post covers some […]