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 […]
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Implementing Dynamic Environment Configuration in Angular for Avoiding One Build per Environment
One big flaw of the Angular CLI’s way of handling environments, according to the build once, deploy many DevOps principle, is that out-of-the-box Angular CLI wants you to create one separate build per environment. Why should you only build once and reuse that build in all environments? The reason why you don’t want to create a separate build for […]
How to Structure Styling in an Angular App – A new hope
As a front-end developer, it is surprising how time goes with styling CSS and is therefore definitely a place you should be efficient. This post will teach you how to find the ideal balance between global and component styling in an Angular app for maximum development speed and maintainability. On one hand, global styling makes […]
Creating Framework Agnostic Apps with Angular Elements
Browsers are becoming more and more powerful. Browsers are now able to do what was previously only possible with native apps, and web apps that take advantage of the modern browser capabilities go under the name Progressive Web Apps. This includes a browser specification that enables browsers to have functionality such as offline availability, hardware support, and […]
How to use Feature Toggling in Angular Apps
In these days you want to try ideas fast to see if they stick. You want to be able to split test to ideas and see what performs the best. If you for some reason want to disable or enable a feature you would want to do that instantaneously without having to redeploy the application. […]
How to create a Progressive Web App (PWA) with Angular
These days there is a lot of hype around creating progressive web apps (PWA) and how the adaption of the PWA technologies can make apps behave like native apps, all with just using the browser API. First things first: what is a PWA? A PWA is an app that progresses the traditional web boundaries by […]
The Four ways to Create Loading Spinners in an Angular app
A core UX principle is that the user should get *instant* feedback about whatever happens in an application. This includes when people are waiting for stuff to load on a website. Going to a site and wait for several seconds (not all live in a first world country with fast internet) can be very confusing […]
The Complete Guide to Versioning Angular Apps
When doing continuous delivery, it makes sense to automate the release reporting process by automatically generate a changelog. The purpose of a changelog is to document all changes in an app using proper versioning. I have been working with firms where this release reporting process has been such a manual and tedious process that it has […]