In the first three parts of this series we looked at what Signals is, how to combine them with RxJS and what the advantages of Signal Inputs are. This time we want to show you how old Angular code can be easily migrated to Signals with the help of ngxtension so that you can take advantage of Signals as quickly as possible.

In den ersten drei Teilen dieser Reihe haben wir uns angeschaut was Angular Signals sind, wie sie sich mit RxJS kombinieren lassen und was die Vorteile von Signal Inputs sind. Dieses Mal wollen wir Dir zeigen wie sich alter Angular Code mit Hilfe von ngxtension ganz einfach zu Signals migrieren lässt, damit Du so schnell wie möglich die Vorteile von Signals nutzen kannst.

1. Introduction/Motivation     If you want to develop an app and make it more interactive than a normal web app, you can implement the CDK (Component Development Kit) drag and drop feature in Angular. Besides sortable lists and normal items such as div elements, there are other ideas in which cases drag&drop can be […]
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Angular 11 was released few weeks ago and with it comes a large number of performance upgrades, bugfixes and improved logging. Not only was the upgrade from Angular V10 to V11 painless but I wanted to share with you the new Hot Module Replacement (HMR) feature. This has been exposed on the CLI if you […]
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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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Introduction Sometimes you need to test your application or website to make sure it works as it should. “End-2-End testing is a software testing methodology to test an application flow from start to finish. The purpose of End-2-End testing is to simulate a real user scenario and validate the system and its components for integration […]
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With Gitlab CI going full steem ahead following their proclaimed vision, we want to have a look on it ourselves! Mostly working with the proven and beloved open source CI tool Jenkins, we are wondering, will Gitlab give us some new features and benefits or will it not be able to replace Jenkins as the […]
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We all love the Gitlab-CI and it’s docker support, also the services are a nice feature to get a database into your pipeline task. But recently we had the issue that we need to prefill the given postgres:latest  service with some sql data for testing. For ubuntu based docker images, there is a easy solution: […]
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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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There are many ways how IntelliJ IDEA can boost your productivity by raw input speed. Firstly, there is Code Completion which is a standard for most code editors, and offers a great deal of help. Secondly, there is Postfix Completion. Maybe this name doesn’t sound familiar to you but you are probably using it already. […]
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