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 Four ways to Create Loading Spinners in an Angular App Read More »
Do you have a set of routines you do before you commit and publish code? These routines could be linting, formatting, testing and building the code. Imagine if there was a way to automate all of this for your whole team? The solution is to use Git hooks. In this post, we will go through …
Some people think that well-styled code is a waste of effort and as long as the code works you shouldn’t bother. It’s often the same kind of people how says that writing automatic tests are a waste of time because it is faster to only test manually right now but doesn’t take the future maintenance …
Code Style Matters: Styling Angular apps using Prettier and TSLint (2020) Read More »
When doing practices like continuous delivery and continuous integration, testing becomes a more important part of the work because it’s unreasonable to regression test all possible effects of a release manually. When doing five releases on a workday, you don’t get to do a full manual regression testing on every release as that would easily …
The Complete Guide to Angular Testing and a Weird Trick for Faster Unit Tests (2020) Read More »
Previously I have written about three ways to use Redux, but how do you structure your Redux app for a scalable application? Redux is good for state management in big applications because you get to decouple write from read and you are not dependent on passing data through (potentially) many levels of components. But structured …
How to design Redux apps for scalability and type-safety Read More »
This post is going to cover logging and how to implement logging in an Angular app. The implementation of this is based on how I implemented continuous delivery for a client. Why log? The purpose of logging is to get detailed information of how the system is running, both runtime information of how the system …
Ohoy, religious grounds ahead! I have been working with both Angular and React applications and have been working for companies that have switched between using Angular or React. From outside, the two frameworks can look like substitutes as they are both single page application framework, but in fact, they are quite different and the switching …
Learning observables are way harder than learning to use promises with all the different operators and methods. But learning Observables is actually a very good investment because of the increasing use of reactive programming, like in Redux. This enables easier management of the state, caching and treating async and sync logic in the same manner. …
Learning observables by cutting the fat away: The 10 most used observables operators Read More »