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Jest: toEqual or toStrictEqual? The difference.

When starting out with Jest Matchers for unit testing, it’s common to hear “should I use toEqual or toStrictEqual?”.

Todd Motto

Jan 30, 2023

Understand the Entity Pattern in Angular for State Management

Prepare for the wonders of the ‘entity pattern’ in Angular.

Todd Motto

Nov 24, 2022

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Custom Reactive Stores with BehaviorSubject

Over the years best practices for state management have solidified in Angular, and there are just so many choices.

Todd Motto

Nov 23, 2022

Programmatically navigate with React Router (and Hooks)

How to programmatically navigate with React Router v6 and the new useNavigate hook.

Todd Motto

Nov 21, 2022

Angular Component Composition and Communication with <ng-content>

The fundamentals of component architecture promote a strict one-way data flow pattern, which helps to make things like testing, state management an...

Todd Motto

Nov 2, 2022

Higher Order Functions in JavaScript

Higher order functions is a term given to functions that operate with other functions.

Todd Motto

Nov 1, 2022

Setters and Getters with Object.freeze() for Private State

JavaScript classes bring the addition of set and get keywords to define behaviour when setting and getting property values.

Todd Motto

Oct 31, 2022

Angulars NgIf, Else, Then - Explained

Let’s look at the NgIf directive in this tutorial and uncover how to use it. We’ll also explore using NgIf with the “Else” statement and “Then”, to...

Todd Motto

Oct 11, 2022

Getting Element references (ElementRef) in Angular templates

In this post you’re going to learn how to select an element in an Angular template.

Todd Motto

Jul 29, 2022

Finally Understand Generic Types in TypeScript

You’ve heard the term “generics” in TypeScript and it gives you a slight shudder. It did me too, and that’s okay.

Todd Motto

Jul 28, 2022

Control NgModel Writes with ngModelOptions

Angular forms are my favourite aspect of the framework, they offer so much and different approaches.

Todd Motto

Jul 27, 2022

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Jest: toEqual or toStrictEqual? The difference.

Understand the Entity Pattern in Angular for State Management

Stay in the loop.

Custom Reactive Stores with BehaviorSubject

Programmatically navigate with React Router (and Hooks)

Angular Component Composition and Communication with <ng-content>

Higher Order Functions in JavaScript

Setters and Getters with Object.​freeze() for Private State

Angulars NgIf, Else, Then - Explained

Getting Element references (ElementRef) in Angular templates

Finally Understand Generic Types in TypeScript

Control NgModel Writes with ngModelOptions

Setters and Getters with Object.freeze() for Private State