When we founded theCodeCampus.de in 2014 we had some year’s experience in developing angular 1 applications. We also had a few years’ experience of doing trainings for Eclipse RCP. Last year we added our angular 2 trainings, months before angular 2 was finally released! We were really surprised how well it was received, but also […]
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There are many modules to include Google Analytics into your AngularJS project. But actually this overhead is not really required since a plain implementation is only a few lines of code. So you can spare extra modules. I highly recommend you to use Google Tag Manager in order to place the tracking information on your […]
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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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NativeScript came up as a framework to write native mobile Apps for Android and iOS, and they even want to come up with Windows 10 support in March 2016. My colleague described first steps in NativScript in his article back in December. Today I want to show you, how to setup your NativeScript + TypeScript + […]
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Google moves yet another step forward and indicates that single page application are getting more common. They just announced to drop the support of hashbang urls and crawl javascript sites without any pre-rendering (html snapshots) of the site – which is totally cool. But there are some limits regarding canonical tags as I discovered. In order […]
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The Angular team provides a tool set for creating end to end tests (e2e) called protractor http://www.protractortest.org based on WebDriver from Selenium. It’s extended by a deferred element finder and support for the ng-model notation, so it could be the ideal partner for testing AngularJS applications. But if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

Tipps and Tricks In one of my last tasks I have had the necessity of adapting a section of a single page application (SPA), in order to get ui-router and ui-bootstrap (plus Bootstrap CSS) work together. In this article I will shortly share with you the result of my experience, by showing how to improve the coexistence […]
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By default AngularJS projects use the hashbang syntax for urls to handle navigation without forcing the client to reload the whole application on every state change. Since the (HTML5) History API is available in all modern browsers the usage of the hashbang is not really required anymore. Furthermore urls look way cleaner without the hashbang. […]
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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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