Angular – The Problem Solver

Developing Angular applications using Docker

Using Docker to deploy applications is great but there is so much more you can do with Docker if you want to. And it can solve some interesting problems along the way. One problem when developing with NPM to manage dependencies is keeping all dependencies in sync. If I pull a repository from GitHub and an NPM install I will get a local copy, on my hard disk, of all dependencies. Fine, great that is just what it should do. But if you pull exactly the same commit 10 minutes later you might end up with a different result. Sure … Continue reading Developing Angular applications using Docker

What should be in a Single Page Application?

By Maurice de Beijer

Single Page Applications (SPA) are really popular these days. And that is understandable as React, Angular and similar libraries with browser based routing make it quite easy to do so for developers. End users like SPA’s as well because navigating around is really fast. Much faster than the traditional browser-based applications that do lots of postbacks. So everyone is happy right? Well everyone is happy if SPA’s are done right but quite often they are not The problem with SPA’s The problem with SPA’s is quite typical: If a bit of something is good then more of the same … Continue reading What should be in a Single Page Application?

Lazy loading and Angular routing

By Maurice de Beijer

One problem with creating a Single Page Application (SPA) is that you might load the entire application when the user first starts the application but most of it is never used. Sure navigation is nice and fast after the initial load but that slows down the initial load as that becomes larger. And that might be worth it if the user navigates to all, or most, routes loaded. But when most routes are never activated that is just a big waste. Fortunately with Angular that is easy enough to fix with lazy loading. And lazy loading is really easy to … Continue reading Lazy loading and Angular routing

Angular 2 and HTTP Request headers

By Maurice de Beijer

Angular 2 does a lot of awesome work for you. But it doesn’t do everything you might expect. One thing it doesn’t do is set a lot of HTTP request headers. Now that makes sense as Angular doesn’t know what you are doing with a request so you really need to do so. But most Http request made with the Http service are going to be for JSON serialized data. The default request however add no headers to let the server know this. The result is that different browsers will do very different requests. This is an example of an … Continue reading Angular 2 and HTTP Request headers