Articles and Lessons tagged with Angular - Page 6

UI Libraries and Frameworks for Angular 6

UI Libraries and Frameworks for Angular 6

Posted Jul 27, 2018 | | By Maina Wycliffe | Angular
UI Libraries and Frameworks make it easier for developers to build clean and consistent User Interfaces (UI). They provide components, utilities for common use within your Application. Some UI Libraries provide you with the freedom to switch things …
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Angular – Managing Authentication State Using NGXS

Angular – Managing Authentication State Using NGXS

Posted Jul 25, 2018 | | By Maina Wycliffe | Angular
Managing an apps Authentication State is a vital task that as Single Page App (SPA) developers, have to handle very often. It’s every developers goal to provide a consistent user experience in your application, depending on whether they are signed in …
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Angular Tips to Improve your Development Experience

Angular Tips to Improve your Development Experience

Posted Jul 23, 2018 | | By Maina Wycliffe | Angular
Developing web apps using Angular and other frameworks and languages can be sometime a daunting task. You need to write thousands of lines of code and sometime rewrite countless times some of them, to achieve a common goal. Today, I am going to share …
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A Guide for Building Angular 6 Libraries

A Guide for Building Angular 6 Libraries

Posted Jul 21, 2018 | | By Maina Wycliffe | Angular
In an earlier post, I wrote about Angular CLI Workspaces, a new feature in Angular 6 that allows you to have more than one project in a single workspace (Angular CLI environment). In this post, I will show you how to create angular 6 Libraries. On …
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Angular 6 – Introduction to Progressive Web Apps

Angular 6 – Introduction to Progressive Web Apps

Posted Jul 14, 2018 | | By Maina Wycliffe | Angular
Earlier this week, I wrote a post about optimizing your angular application using lazy loading. In this post, I will focus on Progressive Web Apps to further improve the performance and user experience. Introduction The main goal of Progressive Web …
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Optimizing your Angular App using Lazy Loading

Optimizing your Angular App using Lazy Loading

Posted Jul 8, 2018 | | By Maina Wycliffe | Angular
Lazy loading is a technique where you defer loading of content until such a time it’s needed. In single page apps (SPA), usually the whole web app is loaded initially before rendering can even begin. This includes sections of the web app that a user …
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Using custom date formats for Angular Material Date Picker

Using custom date formats for Angular Material Date Picker

Posted Jul 3, 2018 | | By Maina Wycliffe | Angular
Angular material has a very nice date picker but while its functionality can accommodate a lot of developers, sometimes it just falls short. For instance, I find it very inflexible when dealing with date formats. While I understand that it’s nice to …
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Angular 6 - Angular CLI Workspaces

Angular 6 - Angular CLI Workspaces

Posted Jun 2, 2018 | | By Maina Wycliffe | Angular
One of the least talked about features of Angular 6 is Angular CLI Workspaces. Workspaces or Angular CLI Workspaces give angular developers the ability to have more than one project in one workspace. This brings all your projects under the same …
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Automate Deployment of Angular Apps using AWS CodeBuild

Automate Deployment of Angular Apps using AWS CodeBuild

Posted May 10, 2018 | | By Maina Wycliffe | Angular
Building and deploying Angular app is very time consuming, especially with large application. You also must keep track of which branch you are deploying to which environment and a little mix-up could be catastrophic. You can smoothen the building and …
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How to Build Adaptive Layout Design using Angular Flex Layout

How to Build Adaptive Layout Design using Angular Flex Layout

Posted Apr 21, 2018 | | By Maina Wycliffe | Angular
Angular Flex Layout is a powerful layout tool available for Angular. It provides an API than can be easily used in both component templates and class allowing you to adaptively react to the device screen size. If you are new to Angular Flex Layout …
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Implementing Login with Facebook with Angular and REST API

Implementing Login with Facebook with Angular and REST API

Posted Feb 6, 2018 | | By Maina Wycliffe | Angular
Today, I am going to show you how to create an Angular App with a REST API that uses Facebook Login to sign in/up users. For this application, we are going to be using PHP in our backend, but this can work with any Framework or Language for the …
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