In this post, we are going to look at Entry Components in Angular, what they are and why they even exist. In the simplest terms possible, an entry component in Angular is any component that is loaded by its class, not selector. @Component({ …

In the last post, which you can find here, we introduced Angular Flex Layout. We looked at the APIs/Directives available to you as a developer and how you can use them. In this post, we are going to build on that foundation. Our goal here is very …

In this post, I am going introduce and look at how you can get started with Angular Flex Layout. We will briefly introduce the APIs for Angular Flex Layout and look at how to add it to your project. Angular Flex Layout is a stand-alone library …

Angular Flex Layout is designed to provide a comprehensive layout design using CSS Flexbox and Media Query. Unlike most other libraries, it doesn’t use CSS Classes but rather uses directives. It also makes it easy to manipulate DOM. On top of that, …

In simple terms, pipes allow us to write display value transformation right inside the template. Angular comes with stock or built in pipes to transform your values to what you want the user to see. For instance, the Date Pipe, allows you to change …

In most cases, forms have constant form controls – remaining static throughout the lifetime of the form. But from time to time, you can find yourself in a situation where you would like to dynamically add or remove form controls. These form controls …

In today’s post, we are going to see how to modify the User Interface (UI) based their user role. This is useful if you wish to display different UI Elements/Components based on the user role. While this is not a security measure, it has the …

In this post, I am going to show you how to deploy angular apps to GitHub pages. You can think of GitHub pages as a free hosting platform that you can use to host client-based apps. You can host things like demos, portfolios, documentations etc. You …

Angular 7 was officially released this week, with lots of new features. Apart from being officially released, nothing else (feature wise) has changed since my last post on Angular 7. In this post, we will look at CLI Prompts and Generating a Minimal …

Google Chrome version 70 was released earlier this week. Among other features, it added support Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) on desktops. This give me an idea for this post where we are going to dive a little bit deeper into PWAs. If you are new to …

In this post, we are going to look at how we can use APP_INITIALIZER in Angular. So, what exactly does APP_INITIALIZER do? The best way to answer that is by looking at my previous post, which can be found here. It was about angular environment …

Angular provides a default way to configure environment variables, which you can learn more about here. But in a nutshell, you have different environment files, where you store environment variables and during the build process, angular compiler will …