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Access parent Route params with Angulars Router
Todd Motto
Aug 22, 2017
With the router/URL being an application’s “source of truth”, we need to be able to access parts of the URL for data purposes, such as grabbing a d...
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Lazy Loading Angular - Code Splitting NgModules with Webpack
Todd Motto
Jul 17, 2017
Let’s talk about code splitting in Angular, lazy-loading and a sprinkle of Webpack. Code splitting allows us to essentially break our codebase down...
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Component architecture recipes for Angulars reactive forms
Todd Motto
May 8, 2017
Component architecture is the fundamental building block of applications, and isn’t just limited to Angular. Building with components allows for th...
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Introducing ngxErrors, declarative form errors for Angular
Todd Motto
Apr 11, 2017
I’ve been working on an open source project to bring better validation to Angular’s reactive forms. In this post we’ll take a look at how to use it...
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Configurable Reactive Forms in Angular with dynamic components
Todd Motto
Mar 13, 2017
In this post we’re going to explore the creation of dynamic components alongside a Reactive Form setup. If you’re new to Reactive Forms, check out ...
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Angulars Router: the Introduction
Todd Motto
Feb 22, 2017
Angular’s router acts as the main hub of any application, it loads the relevant components relevant to the route requested, as well as dealing with...
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A deep dive on Angular decorators
Todd Motto
Jan 26, 2017
Decorators are a core concept when developing with Angular (versions 2 and above). There’s also an official TC39 proposal, currently at Stage-2, so...
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Mastering Angular dependency injection with @Inject, @Injectable, tokens and providers
Todd Motto
Jan 24, 2017
Providers in Angular are key to how we develop our applications, and injecting dependencies can be done in various ways. In this post, we’re going ...
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Should you learn Angular 1.x or 2?
Todd Motto
Jan 20, 2017
A question that I’m frequently asked, “should I learn Angular 1 or 2?”. I hope this post offers some insight, help and guidance into answering that...
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Building Teslas battery range calculator with Angular 2 reactive forms
Todd Motto
Dec 13, 2016
In this epic tutorial, we’re going to build some advanced Angular (v2+) components that rebuild Tesla’s battery range calculator and then compile i...
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Angular 1.6 is here, this is what you need to know
Todd Motto
Dec 6, 2016
AngularJS 1.6 was just released! Here’s the low down on what to expect for the component method changes as well as $http Promise method deprecation...
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Dynamic page titles in Angular 2 with router events
Todd Motto
Nov 17, 2016
Updating page titles in AngularJS (1.x) was a little problematic and typically was done via a global $rootScope property that listened for route ch...
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