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A guide to Responsive images with srcset
Todd Motto
Feb 6, 2019
High resolution images are something we all want. Whether it’s on a mobile phone, a desktop or a laptop - no one wants to look at a blurry image. T...
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NGRX Store: Understanding State Selectors
Todd Motto
Dec 20, 2018
Selectors are pure functions that take slices of state as arguments and return some state data that we can pass to our components. To better unders...
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Classes vs Interfaces in TypeScript
Todd Motto
Sep 22, 2018
Classes and interfaces are powerful structures that facilitate not just object-oriented programming but also type-checking in TypeScript. A class i...
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Handling Observables with NgIf and the Async Pipe
Todd Motto
Jul 12, 2018
Now you’ve learned the basics of Angular’s NgIf and Else it’s time to take things up a notch and introduce some Observables. In this article you’ll...
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NGRX Store: Actions versus Action Creators
Todd Motto
Jun 16, 2018
Actions in the Redux paradigm are the initiators of the one-way dataflow process for state management. Once an action is triggered, or rather dispa...
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Typing Arrays in TypeScript
Todd Motto
May 14, 2018
There are many ways in TypeScript to type a property as an array, or contains an array of “something”. These ways of declaring an array type includ...
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Testing Actions in NGRX Store
Todd Motto
Mar 8, 2018
In this small NGRX Store testing series, we’re going to learn how to test Actions, Reducers and Selectors. Let’s begin with Actions, or more specif...
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Testing Reducers in NGRX Store
Todd Motto
Feb 12, 2018
Next in this series, we’re going to learn how to test Reducers in NGRX Store. In the previous testing post we explored Testing Actions.
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Introduction to TypeScript
Todd Motto
Feb 11, 2018
Since its inception, JavaScript has experienced monumental growth - especially in recent years.
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Finally understand Redux by building your own Store
Todd Motto
Dec 13, 2017
Redux is an interesting pattern, and at its core a very simple one - but why does it feel complex to understand? In this post, we’re going to dive ...
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Exploring set, get and Object.defineProperty in TypeScript
Todd Motto
Sep 26, 2017
When working with Javascript or TypeScript, you may have seen the set and get keywords being thrown around in various blogs or codebases - and they...
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Preloading ngrx store with Route Guards
Todd Motto
Aug 24, 2017
Using ngrx/store (and some love for ngrx/effects) is definitely a great step for my productivity when managing state in Angular, and I want to shar...
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