Disclaimer This article is not about JavaScript framework comparison or if Angular is the best JavaScript framework of all. This article will try to explain why you should consider choosing Angular for your web development needs and what are the benefits of doing so. Why Angular Answering the question “Why should someone choose…

The Angular framework includes a top-notch mechanism for providing dependencies to an Angular application, called the Angular dependency injection or simply Angular DI. It is a core feature of the Angular framework and allows us to inject dependencies in various Angular artifacts, such as components and directives. …

Introduction Today, popular Javascript frameworks (Angular, React, Vue) apply semantic versioning when releasing a new version that fixes essential bugs or adds new awesome features. Adding a new feature not only provides developers with new functionality but also enables them to keep up with emerging new web standards and technologies. Why not upgrading Keeping…

As Hamlet wonders himself in the famous play by William Shakespeare, I was found in a similar situation (not involving death or suicide) where I had to find a method to reset a form in Angular. Reactive forms in Angular are very popular among developers because they are scalable, reusable…

We should be very careful when declaring an output event in an Angular component, especially with the name of the Output decorator. Bad names could lead to unpredictable behavior and difficult to detect bugs. …

This blog post is part of my talk at 1st Angular Athens meetup entitled From Gulp to Angular CLI and beyond. It describes the migration of an AngularJS application to Angular using an approach that is focused on tooling and development workflow. …

Traditionally, when developers need to get information from an API with a master-detail data structure, they would normally go through callback hell or, even better, a promise chain to gather all data. An alternative way to handle such a scenario is using RxJS Observables. I encountered a problem recently where…

I started my early career as a .NET developer for mobile applications using .NET Compact Framework. Along the way, I was involved in the development of several .NET desktop applications using WinForms and WPF. In the meantime, I started to write web applications using primarily jQuery and then BackboneJS…

Progressive Web Apps, or PWA, are web applications that are built with the latest web technologies and provide enhanced user experience with the following characteristics: Speed: load instantly and respond quickly to user interactions. Reliability: operate properly even in offline scenarios. Engagement: feel like a native application on the device…