This post will show you how to easily set the default Terminal to a Unix/bash like terminal in IntelliJ IDEA on Windows. As the Windows CMD.EXE is quite limited in it’s functionality (and usability) you might already be using some UNIX-like terminal emulator like Git Bash (which comes with Git for Windows, so you might […]
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From time to time you may want to throw an error from within an npm build script. This should be done in such a way that the complete execution of the script is recognized as faulty. So that for example, a build server recognizes that a script did not run successfully. You only need to […]
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If you are experiencing this error – usually something with your RxJS imports is wrong. So you should go through them manually or simply delete all imports from RxJS in the corresponding file and let the IDE generate them again. Something broken could look like this:

Better working might be:

What is happening? RxJS […]
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Nest.js is a great framework for writing REST-API’s using Node.js. It features Angular’s dependency injection, an complete TypeScript integration and helps you with structuring your code. A common issue when working with REST-API’s is Cross-Origin-Request-Sharing (CORS), which keeps your Angular client from requesting resources which are located on another domain. Let’s pretend, for instance your […]
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I’ve recently had an extremely weird application behavior. The application is this server side rendered Angular page.  I discovered that the router outlet for this page was empty on the SSR result. I hadn’t noticed before since the site was bootstrapping really fast even without SSR. A quick look into Sentry – which holds our […]
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As a developer you may get the task adding a Sitemap and a robot.txt to your Angular project. This is quite easy if it is being built with Angular CLI. Copy the files next to the favicon.ico  into the /src  folder of your Angular project.

  Now open up the angular.json file in the […]
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When working with Angular Universal we can implement a full-fledged server. Of course, this does not only include for example to display a 404 page for incorrect urls but also setting the correct status code. So that for example search engines and crawlers in general can process the result correctly. Angular itself allows us to […]
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Since I have seen a lot of very different approaches to build up an Angular application correctly regarding the CSS positioning, I would like to talk about the different solutions in a short article. Basically it has to be said that our application is usually included in an HTML document as app-root. An index.html created with […]
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A few weeks ago, Google has released its new solution for building scalable cloud databases — the Cloud Firestore. It has some nice improvements in comparison to their previous database (which used to be called Firebase but is now referred to as ‘Realtime Database’), like better data structuring and a more powerful querying API. In this […]
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What is this article about? If you develop a web application with Angular, sooner or later you will run into the following problem: Where will the data generated by the client be validated? Client side validation is included in Angular, and gives the user a fast feedback about the correctness of his data. This is […]
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