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React.createClass versus extends React.Component
Todd Motto
Jan 4, 2016
Two ways to do the same thing. Almost. React traditionally provided the React.createClass method to create component classes, and released a small ...
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Stateless React components
Todd Motto
Dec 28, 2015
React v0.14.0 introduces “stateless” components, which takes a more functional approach to creating chunks of JSX and templates. In my previous art...
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Creating a tabs component with React
Todd Motto
Dec 28, 2015
I have to say, this is my first proper component built in React. I tried it out last year and absolutely loved it. Feel free to rip this component ...
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Angular modules, setters, getters and bootstrapping
Todd Motto
Dec 21, 2015
The first place you’ll usually start in any Angular application or module library, is creating a module. Let’s walk through the syntax differences ...
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Using Controller $filters to prevent $digest performance issues
Todd Motto
Dec 15, 2015
Filters in Angular massively contribute to slow performance, so let’s adopt a sensible way of doing things, which may take you an additional ten mi...
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Resolve promises in Angular routes
Todd Motto
Dec 14, 2015
Phase 1 of our Angular careers involved $http inside a Controller. Phase 2 involved abstracting into a Service and calling the Service inside a Con...
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Directive to Directive communication with require
Todd Motto
Dec 14, 2015
Communication between Directives can be done in various ways. When dealing with Directives that have a hierarchical relationship we can use Directi...
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Dynamic Controllers in Directives with the undocumented name property
Todd Motto
Dec 12, 2015
Assigning Controllers to Angular Directives is the norm when building out components. But what if you wanted to dynamically assign a Controller to ...
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Angular component method back-ported to 1.3
Todd Motto
Dec 7, 2015
AngularJS 1.5 is soon to release the component() method which I wrote about last month. I decided to back-port the functionality from the new featu...
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Exploring the Angular 1.5 .component method
Todd Motto
Nov 13, 2015
AngularJS 1.5 introduced the .component() helper method, which is much simpler than the .directive() definition and advocates best practices and co...
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Walkthrough to upgrade an Angular 1.x component to Angular 2
Todd Motto
Oct 27, 2015
In this article we’re going to look at upgrading your first AngularJS (1.x) component, a simple todo app, across to Angular (v2+) code. We’ll compa...
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Superfast Angular use ngModelOptions to limit $digest cycles
Todd Motto
Oct 24, 2015
The $digest cycle is the critical entity for keeping our Angular applications fast: the faster the cycle, the faster the two-way data binding. Java...
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