I often come across Angular components that retrieve data from a remote API inside the ngOnInit lifecycle hook. While this is an easy way to load data into the component, it can can increase the size of the code and breaks the single responsibility principle. A better approach is to…
Angular is a modern, highly performant application framework. Learning Angular is one of the best things you can do in your career as a web developer. But it is no good if your code does not work, which is where a good test suite comes into play. I have built…
Azure Application Insights is a cloud based application monitoring service from Microsoft. You can monitor your applications in all of your environments with Application Insights, including development and production. Microsoft has been shipping Visual Studio with built-in support for Application Insights in Windows. However, Visual Studio for Mac does not…
Visual Studio Code is an open-source, lightweight IDE from Microsoft. I enjoy using it on a day-to-day basis, generally for front-end projects like Angular web applications. VS Code has many handy features, one of my favourite is the rename symbols feature. The rename feature allows you to easily change the…
The default Angular project template executes end-to-end tests using the development environment. If you're like me and switch to a Mac from Windows quite frequently, you may want to have the ability to execute your e2e tests in a different configuration. We will enable executing Angular e2e tests in different…
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