At first when I heard of css variables when it was introduced, I was a bit skeptical. Why would anyone use it if there are extension languages as scss, sass, less and stylus. After several years, I started to notice more and more peoples using it, writing about it and talking about it. I was missing out on something… It took a while but after using it here and there, I was hooked. In this post I’ll cover what convinced me to explore css variables further and to start using them in projects.

Usage

To declare variables, define them in a…

Today we’re happy to announce the version 8 release of the NgRx platform. This release contains a lot of new features across most of the libraries, bug fixes, and some breaking changes, all aimed at improving the developer experience when using NgRx libraries.

@ngrx/data

The long-awaited angular-ngrx-data library by John Papa and Ward Bell has been integrated into the platform as a first-party package. NgRx Data is an extension that offers a gentle introduction to NgRx by simplifying the management of entity data while reducing the amount of explicitness.

For more info head over to the docs.

@ngrx/store

createAction, actions without enums, classes and union types

In previous versions of…

This post is not a post that says you have to have between X and Y percentage coverage throughout your code base. It’s an introduction post to code coverage, how to read it, and how you can use it in your workflow.

Code coverage

Code coverage tells you which code has been executed during a test and how many times. I’m not telling to aim for X percentage of coverage, because this is entirely dependent on what you’re creating. Targeting for 100% code coverage is often a mistake as it will take a lot of time (to get there and to maintain)…