I did a podcast episode for Adventures in Angular discussing the 10 commandments of Angular development. The commandments: Thou shalt separate smart and dumb components Thou shalt use abstractions Thou shalt have no other gods before Angular best practices/official guidelines Remember to type everything to keep it holy Thou shalt honor high ROI testing Honer thy Reactive architecture Thou shalt remember the responsive styling to keep […]
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Top 5 NgRx Mistakes
NgRx is a popular state management framework implementing the Redux standard for Angular. Nevertheless, it is often one of the hardest things to learn when you are learning Angular. Often the confusion is not in the Redux flow itself (it is quite simple actually) but more in how you actually put it into use. As […]
Angular Projects and Lessons Learned
Throughout my career, I have worked on quite a few Angular projects. In this post, I will go through some of the different projects I have worked on and explain the lessons learned in each so you can learn from them. Ionic + Cordova mobile app with AngularJS (2015) This app was about creating an […]
Form validation with ControlValueAccessor
If we have UI components, that are using inputs, we normally want to hook it into the form handling so we can do form validation and show error messages. This post will show you how to use ControlValueAccessor to integrate your UI components into the form validation and how to control the error state in an Angular […]
Refactoring Angular Apps to Reactive Architecture
As an Angular consultant, the main problem I see new Angular developers have is how to use RxJS efficiently in Angular apps. In other words, how to use it to create a scalable and maintainable reactive architecture. What I see instead is an abuse of RxJS, which is a completely natural thing to do, when […]
The monorepo blueprint (live talk)
I just did this live talk at AarhusJS – a Javascript meetup in Aarhus (Denmark), my hometown 🙂 The talk extended upon the lessons learned after working with Angular monorepo projects and will teach you about: Creating a good Angular architecture Case study: Monorepo architecture Using Sandboxes/facades Organizing libs and conventions in a monorepo Enforcing […]
How I Am Planning 2020 as a Software Developer
This video covers how I plan my year, including quarterly, monthly, weekly and daily milestones. This is a highly efficient planning tool, that I use every day to execute and improve. The tool works better than any other “todo lists” and productivity planners I have come across because it aligns your yearly goals with quarterly, […]
The Ten Commandments of Angular Development
As a consultant, I normally work with companies between 3-12 months at a time and then I am off to the next gig. Most often, I am hired as a “hands-on” coach, were I am called in for an important and urgent project to make stuff happen within a very tight deadline. This requires that […]