Recently I needed to do an extensive refactoring in a big Angular project. That was the kind of refactoring that cannot be easily done in a automated way and I needed to rely on the TypeScript compiler to find errors caused by my changes, so I needed to do that…

This is a forth post in my Tech Video Recommendations series. The previous post can be found here. Here are the links for today: The Code-Free Developer Interview (28:02) 2. #NoEstimates (37:44) 3. VS Code Can Do That (20:33) 4. Rethinking the Developer Career Path (25:04)

First of all, let me say that if you already use AngularFire and don’t have any issues with it, then you should probably continue doing so, as it is the official Angular library for Firebase. Having said that, let’s see why you might consider an alternative: ng-firebase-lite. AngularFire is a…

This is a third post in my Tech Video Recommendations series. The previous post can be found here. Here are the links for today: In The Loop (35:11) 2. A Framework Author’s Case Against Frameworks (17:27) 3. Inventing on Principle (54:19) 4. Feature Branches and Toggles in a Post-GitHub World (49:57)

The answer to this question turns out to be not as straightforward as one might think because Firestore doesn’t support aggregate queries at this moment, and in order to get the number of items in a collection the entire collection must be retrieved, which is far from optimal. If you…

This is a second post in my Tech Video Recommendations series. The previous post can be found here. Here are the links for today: The History of .NET (1:08) Next Generation Ionic: Built for PWAs & interoperability (22:48) The long strange trip of a senior developer (44:00) (Bonus: Hacking Spacetime for a Successful Career) Effective Unit Testing (48:10) Originally published at www.pglazkov.com on March 3, 2018.

One of the things I do to educate myself and keep up to date with latest technology trends is watch recordings from various tech conferences happing around the world. Recently I also started a tradition at Independer (where I work) of watching such tech videos during lunch. This way I get to watch quite a lot of such videos. Some of them I like more than others or find especially useful. So, with this post I would like to start a series where I share a few links to videos that I liked for one reason or another and would recommend watching.

Most applications use modal dialogs as part of their UI. When building an app with Angular there are quite a lot of options when it comes to modals. Here are some of the more popular ones: Material Dialog ngx-bootstrap ngx-modialog When we needed to implement modal dialogs and panels in…

In my recent post Angular CLI vs. Custom Webpack Setup I said that in my experience, build performance was one of the reasons not to use the CLI, and then I briefly mentioned HappyPack as a way to improve it. In this post I would like to give more details…