Have you ever heard of ‘Mobile Native JavaScript‘? – No? It’s about writing native Apps with a native look & feel, but purely in JavaScript and the web technologies you love. The past We as developers had to make the hard decision, about writing a new app either native for each platforms or a hybrid […]
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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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You need an app for Android, iOs and Windows Phone, but don’t want to write the code in three different languages? And the app should look as native as possible? Then Nativescript could be a solution. Why? Because it does not only look like a native app, it is native! Why NativeScript? NativeScript is a […]
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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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To work efficiently its indispensable to get detailed error messages. If you simply pipe the gulp-less task to your stream you will receive a error message – but your whole gulp task will crash.

what we get:

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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