Let’s look at the concept of Value vs Reference. Every JavaScript developer should know this topic as it’s often the reason behind bugs in today’s applications. Also, it’s often one of the job interview questions.
I will cover the basics as easily as I can in this short article.
Don’t scroll down too quickly. Do you know what these two examples return?
console.log([10] === [10]);var oldArray = [];
var object = {};object.newArray = oldArray;
oldArray.push(10);console.log(object.newArray === oldArray);
The first one is false and second one is true. Was your answer right? Let’s look at why.
In JavaScript we have types that are copied by value and types copied by reference. These…
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This article is written for Angular 2+. At the time of writing the latest version was Angular 4.
Update (June 2019): Still valid for Angular 8
It’s written for beginners — if you are an advanced or intermediate Angular developer you probably already know all these techniques.
Edit: Although, the title of this article is a bit misleading because we do not want to communicate between components directly. Our components should be isolated and encapsulated. I chose this title because I think developers struggling with this will be googling it this way.
How to communicate between components? This is the topic I’ve seen many new Angular developers to struggle with. I will show you the three most common approaches, with examples that fit different use cases. …
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