Today, most web applications are not simple — especially when they include forms, APIs, and a database. Modern web applications now contain complex business rules and data validation requirements. Most business applications collect a fair amount of data. This means that the application or software must verify or validate that…

State Machines In Angular: Very nice article and I love the references. I think one of the challenges is thinking in states for an application. Knowing and understanding each state provides a blue-print for the application feature(s). To me, state management is much more than storing and retrieving data from a store, it has implications to the overall experience of the application and its quality.

I attended the Enterprise NG Conference by ng-conf last week. Eric Simons (@EricSimons40) the founder of StackBlitz got me re-engaged with StackBlitz. I learned about StackBlitz 3 years ago when I attended an Angular Meetup hosted by StackBlitz in San Francisco (2017). I was on a pleasure trip with my…

Have you ever wanted to compose your large application with much smaller micro-apps — and lazy-load them as feature modules in your host application? Angular 6 gave us the Angular Workspace and the new library project type. The library project type allows us to create things that can be shared…

Angular libraries are much better with configuration using RxJS, interfaces, and typed configuration. — A working solution is available on Github at: angularlicious/configuration-for-libraries A repository to demonstrate how an Angular application can provide libraries with configuration. …github.com The Angular Workspace provides the ability to have multiple library and application projects in a single environment. Although this capability has been available since version 6, I find that many developers and teams are not taking full advantage of shared libraries. …

Recently, I was asked if I would change a company’s technology stack to Angular — due to the problems they were having after a 2+ years of development in React. I answered, “No.”. I also replied that it doesn’t matter what technology you choose, you will always have issues if…

All The Cool Cats are Using Workspaces Now, Are YOU? Github.com: https://github.com/buildmotion/workspace-demo The most recent version of Angular is a significant release — version 6.0.3 as of this post. We get a lot of new tools and features that provide a more efficient develoment environment. When we use the new Angular 6 CLI, the default environment is now a workspace…