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 …

In this post, we are going to look at tips you can use to make your components more reusable. Reusing components allows developers to avoid code duplication, which can introduce errors and bugs and are also hard to troubleshoot. Take for instance a …

In this post, we are going to take a closer look at changes we expect on both Angular Material 7 and Content Development Kit(CDK). While this two are separate packages, they often go hand in hand, as Angular Material relies on some packages found in …

In this post, we are going to take a close look at the drag and drop feature coming to Angular 7 Content Development Kit (CDK). We are getting closer to the release of Angular 7, so it is only fair to see what is in store for us. You can learn more …

Angular apps take time to show meaningful content to the user. This time is mainly after loading the index.html page and bootstrapping the app. This is especially worse on lower end devices or slower networks, where it takes longer to get the all …

In this post, we are going to use Route Guards to determine which user can and can not access certain pages. It is common to have multiple user roles such as guest, author, editor, admin for a blogging site such as this one. Therefore, it is …

In a previous post, we covered how to use multiple dockerfile to target different environments for an angular app. In this post, we are going to take things a bit further along using docker compose. We shall use multiple docker compose configuration …

In a previous post here, we looked at how to intercept HTTP unauthorized responses, and refresh authorization tokens and resend the original request, with the new authorization token. This had me thinking, what if you wanted to be more proactive. In …