Issue 1

Welcome to the first issue of The Angular Times. I find weekly, curated newsletters like iOS Dev Weekly, and Swift Weekly invaluable for expanding my knowledge of iOS programming. With this publication, I hope to do the same for Angular developers.

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ANGULAR

Angular 4.1

The drop-in replacement for Angular 4.x.x was released this past week and it brings with it full support for TypeScript 2.2 and 2.3, as well as allowing us to enable StrictNullChecks in our projects.

Angular Attack

Angular Attack, a 48-hour online hackathon, took place last weekend. You can view and vote upon submissions here. Judging concludes today and the winners will be announced tomorrow!

TYPESCRIPT

StrictNullChecks

If you are unfamiliar with the compiler option StrictNullChecks, basarat provides a succinct explanation of what it does.

RXJS

Automagically Unsubscribe in Angular

I’ve yet to try this technique but it looks like NetanelBasal has discovered a nice way to manage subscriptions and avoid memory leaks in your components. This decorator-based technique seems much cleaner than my current method of adding all the subscriptions to an array and looping through it in ngOnDestroy.

TOOLS

GitLens

I’ve only started using it this week, but I think eamodio has created the only VS Code Git extension I’ll ever need.

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