Display the version and git hash in Angular In this post I will explain the process to you that we at W11K use to display the git-hash and application version in our Angular Apps. I will briefly explain the motivation why we want to do this and show you how to use our Open Source […]
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Coming up with the idea Let me sketch the scenario which led me to implement the rear view mirror desktop application. I was trying to fix a rather strange bug, at some point I realized I was stuck and asked a colleague for help. When we both realized that we need to ask another developer […]
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What is Content Projection Those of you who already worked with angular.js 1.x might be already familiar with the concepts described in this post. In angular.js 1.x you might know this concept under the infamous name transclusion. It’s not a concept invented by the Angular Team but rather one that describes how content of any […]
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Problem Let’s be honest – developers tend to be lazy. Whenever you start a new project you’re probably saying to yourself that you want to do everything better this time but often times your new project becomes the same mess as your previous one. I want to introduce a neat little trick that might help […]
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Since the release of Angular 7, the Angular CDK includes a feature that can improve the performance of your application dramatically. Virtual scrolling is highly beneficial for dealing with a lot of data in tables or lists. You can improve performance for large lists in Angular with the Angular CDK virtual scrolling component. What is […]
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Problem When using the built-in Angular Internationalization (i18n) the Angular guide tells you in detail what you have to do to set up your application to support multiple languages. The guide lacks the details on how to properly integrate the build into a common web application deployment workflow. In this brief blog post I’m going to […]
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Memory Leaks When it comes to unit testing in AngularJS there are many things that, developers like us can and will do wrong. The most crucial one is to create memory leaks in our unit tests, which mostly result either in a crash of the unit test runner (browser crash) or in creating a coherence/dependency between […]
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Angular 1.5 Multi Slot Transclusion Transclusion is one of the most useful features when it comes to writing reusable Angular directives. Even if you never heard of what it is, you might have used transclusion before without knowing it. The version 1.5 of AngularJS adds a long awaited feature: Multi Slot Transclusion, that allows us developer […]
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It is a common scenario in our projects to display tons of data in a nice, elegant and informative way. The tool to do so exists since many decades: charts. In This blog post I give an overview of angular.js directives that can easily be used to create all sorts of charts. There is a […]
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AngularJS 1.3 wurde im Oktober 2014 veröffentlicht und bringt neben zahlreichen Bugfixes auch neue Features. Als Feature bezeichnen die Angular JS Entwickler auch das fallenlassen der Unterstützung des Internet Explorer 8. Das Feature auf das sich dieser Artikel bezieht wurde mit der Version 1.3.0-beta.16 hinzugefügt. Überblick über die Features in Angular 1.3 keine IE8 Unterstützung […]
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