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Explore one of the most complex pieces of Taiga UI — ActiveZone directive that keeps an eye on what region user is working with. It touches on low-level native DOM events API, advanced RxJS and Dependency Injection, ShadowDOM and more!

Designing architecture could be tricky, especially in the agile world, where requirement changes are frequent. So your design has to support that and provides extendibility without the need for serious modification. In such cases, you will find the Container-Presentation pattern instrumental.

The micro-frontends concept has been out there for quite a while. We’ve been using this architecture in Wix since around 2013, long before it was even given this name. In this article I’d like to share some of the things we did in order to evolve the concept of developing big scale micro-frontends.

Sometimes a hook is just a hook, but often you'll need more context. This short blog post sums it up.

Object oriented programming - a word combination instantly recognized by almost every software developer in the world; even the ones who don't use (or even hate) it.

Use the power of Angular directives to create a reusable self-saving dropdown directive

How to eliminate duplicated code when getting route params, query params or data from Activated Route in Angular by using dependency injection.

Learn Gitlab to build a CI/CD pipeline for Angular apps and libraries. This second article focuses on deployment using two methods involving GitLab Registries and Pages. You'll also find docker jobs optimization tips using custom images.

While the end-users interacting with apps have lower tolerance to response time and higher need for speed, this post discusses different ways front-end developers can cater to their need for speed with off-the-shelf components from Angular Material.

Styling the host element is a crucial ability. Understanding that can completely change the way you develop reusable components, making their code clear and easier to maintain. This article will concentrate on techniques that use CSS styles and reduce Typescript logic.

In this article, we will learn how we can extend native date input through a directive so that it supports conversion of value and validation on value.

I decided to pick my favorite 5 tools from taiga-ui/cdk and explain how they can in any Angular app

Third party library interfaces are often loosely typed to support edge cases. However, there can be great benefits to layering more explicit types over the existing interfaces.

Angular 12 just came out which added a nullish coalescing operator (‘??’) to templates. But what are other features Angular templates have that you might have never heard of? Let’s find out!

In this post, you'll find a set of design patterns for building Angular forms based on two pillars: separation of responsibilities and reactive programming to tackle the complexity of rich and complex Angular forms.

This article dives deep into NgRx selectors and will help you understand what role that play in NgRx architecture and how they help decrease the complexity of a codebase

This article explains one of the possible ways to build different types of HttpClients for different feature modules (including non-lazy loaded) and associate a set of interceptors with each HttpClient type to ensure more reliable architecture.

When we create schematics, we sometimes face a situation where we want to run other existing schematics from the same or external collection. In this article we will learn how to do it.

Understanding how pipes work under the hood by looking at their implementation details in Ivy

In this article I'll go over a couple of possible implementations of network requests caching and I'll elaborate on the one we adopted that uses TS decorators.

In my last article we glossed over things that one should probably avoid doing when building an Angular application with NgRx; today, we are going to discuss things that are good to do when facing that very same challenge.

In JavaScript we often use entities, such as window or navigator. Some of these objects have been there forever. But you might have seen DOCUMENT token used in Angular. Let's discuss why it exists and what we can learn from it to make our apps cleaner and more flexible.

I want to show how we organized the system of settings for all textfields in Taiga UI with this concept and the power of Dependency Injection in Angular.

Learn about ng-content, ng-template, ContentChild and structural directives to build Angular material "mat-tree". These are badly documented but powerful and advanced concepts available in Angular.

It is time to explore some practices and patterns the community has recognized as harmful or complicated. So let's start with a list of what not to do in NGRX

We are migrating a traditional server-side website to angular step by step. I want to share some experiences of what we have tried in this article.

Animations are good, but it can be overwhelming sometimes. As developers, we need to allow users to take control of animations. In this article we will learn how we can utilize reduced motion media query to disable angular animations.

NgZone notifies Angular when to perform the change detection process (e.g. a DOM event with bound listener is one of the triggerers). However, if in response to an event you directly manipulate the DOM or simply perform an action which does not require bindings update, the process is redundant.

I keep telling people that Angular is way more powerful than what youtube teaches. Learning design patterns will help to create powerful components. Let's learn to create an Angular component, iterate over it to make it reusable, scalable, and powerful.

This article will give you a step by step walkthrough on implementing a realtime database in your Angular Apps using Firebase Cloud Firestore.

Have you ever realized that you often repeat the same patterns across multiple files? Creating schematics that override well-known Angular schematics, designing them based on project needs will enhance your development and reduce time spent on generating files.

Angular Universal is an open-source project that extends the functionality of @angular/platform-server. The project makes server-side rendering possible in Angular. This article will discuss the issues and possible solutions we encountered while developing a real application with Angular Universal.

As a web developer you may have noticed a repetitive boiler plate code of displaying a loader while an asynchronous request is being processed, then switching to the main view or displaying an error. Personally, I noticed these repetitions both in my code and other developers I work with. And even worse than the repetitive code is the fact that there are no indications for missing state views (such as unhandled errors or a missing loader). <div *ngIf="data$ | async as data"> <ng-container *ng

It's not uncommon to see the words 'unsubscribe', 'memory leaks', 'subject' in the same phrase when reading upon RxJS-related materials. In this article, we're going to tackle this fact and by the end of it you should gain a better insight as to why memory leaks occur.

When building a client application, some requests to the server are identical regardless of the specific view the user is in. A cache eliminates redundant HTTP calls and may also help reduce the number of potential future HTTP calls if it implements some additional logic.

We cannot use HostBinding with Observable data — it requires a plain value. This is a pretty sought-after feature. Let’s see how we can implement it while we wait for official support.

In this article we will learn about two ways to implement reactive and reusable forms that have the capability to be used as sub-forms and also be used as standalone forms.

If you see a project ridden with problems and bad practices, it might be tempting to start refactoring right away. But it is important to clear up several issues before getting to work.

Undoubtedly, it’s a wide array of operators that makes the RxJS library extremely powerful utility in a developer’s tool belt. In this blog post, I will introduce you to the concept of custom RxJS operators and present exemplary implementations.

A headless component is one that provides behavior to its children, and allows the children to decide the actual UI to render while incorporating the behavior provided by the parent. In this article, we explore an example of a headless component, and the problems they help us solve.

Learn how to build extensible applications with Angular and reuse your code and abilities to build apps for any deployment target - web, mobile web, iOS, Android, macOS, Windows and Linux.

Explanation in detail about how map and pluck work, and then figuring out main difference between two operators

In my previous two articles we have discussed how to change our components which solve problems in imperative ways to do that in functional, reactive, RxJS way, and we of course had a lot of fun doing that.

In software engineering, making things work the first time is always easy. But, what if you want to add new functionalities to an existing code? Making iterations on an existing basis can be difficult to do without introducing bugs. This is where SOLID principles come into play.

Just before new year we announced our new Angular UI kit library Taiga UI. If you go through Getting started steps, you will see that you need to wrap your app with the tui-root component. Let's see what it does and explore what portals are and how and why we use them.