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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About Ng-dropping-stones is a small Tetris clone built with Angular 7. It can be played in the browser as well as on a raspberry pi based arcade machine, which we present at fairs (JavaLand, enterJS, Herbstcampus). History At first, ng-dropping-stones was designed for our arcade machine to present it on fairs. It was very well […]
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Problem When creating forms with Angular, many accesses take place in the template using strings. This makes it difficult to perform refactorings automatically. It would be so desirable: Status quo Also the FormBuilder does not manage to get the problems better under control. It is only a help for the creation of the data structure […]
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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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This Article is based on Kara Ericksons talk about “Angular Forms” at the Angular Connect 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD_t3m2WMM8&amp=&index=15 I am going to give you a quick example to get started with nested Forms. TL;DR Extract the HTML in new Component Inject ControlContainer in new Component Access the Form via ControlContainer.control pass the parent Form into the […]
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My guess is your using Angular in combination with Angular Material and you desperately need a sticky footer, ideally, in a variable height. No need to look any further. This article will provide you with a basic solution for given circumstances. This article was updated and tested for Angular 7 and Material 2 Version 7.1.1 […]
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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 You probably already run into this issue. Inside a component, you want to react to the change of an @Input() value e.g. by calling a method of your component. For example we have get an @Input() filter: string from our parent component and if the @Input() changes, we want to update our data in […]
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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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