Angular blogs
Explore the depths of the Angular framework and advanced practices.
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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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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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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Updating Angular Forms with patchValue or setValue
Todd Motto
Nov 16, 2016
If you’re still guessing which method to use to update a Reactive Form value in Angular, then this post is for you.
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Please stop worrying about Angular 3
Todd Motto
Nov 10, 2016
Please note: since writing this article Angular adopted SemVer and Angular 3 was skipped to Angular 4 to allow all modules to align with the sam...
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Reactive FormGroup validation with AbstractControl in Angular 2
Todd Motto
Oct 26, 2016
Validation in Angular (v2+), various approaches, various APIs to use. We’re going to use AbstractControl to learn how to validate a particular Form...
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Angular Form Fundamentals: Template-driven Forms
Todd Motto
Oct 18, 2016
Angular presents two different methods for creating forms, template-driven (what we were used to in AngularJS 1.x), or reactive. We’re going to exp...
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Stateful and stateless components, the missing manual
Todd Motto
Oct 12, 2016
The goals of this article are to define what stateful and stateless components are, otherwise known as smart and dumb - or container and presentati...
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Things I use, desk, software, setups
Todd Motto
Oct 6, 2016
I often get asked what colour schemes I’m using, stuff for videos, workshops, slides and so forth. So this is essentially a quick write up on that ...
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Angular 2 authentication with Auth0 and NodeJS
Todd Motto
Apr 19, 2016
If you’ve needed to add authentication to an AngularJS (1.x) app, you’ll have likely have had some fun and perhaps been lost at where to start. Tra...
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