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Maxim Koretskyi a year ago9 min read

Level Up Your Reverse Engineering Skills

What I cannot [re]create, I do not understandThe quote above belongs to Richard Feyman, one of the greatest scientists and physicists of our time. What he meant is that, starting with a blank piece of paper and the knowledge already in his mind, he could take any theoretical result

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Maxim Koretskyi 5 months ago3 min read

He who thinks change detection is depth-first and he who thinks it’s breadth-first are both usually right

Do you know if Angular first checks siblings of the current component (breadth-first) or its children (depth-first)? This article answers this question for you.

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Maxim Koretskyi 4 months ago19 min read

Inside Fiber: in-depth overview of the new reconciliation algorithm in React

The how and why on everything from React elements to Fiber nodes

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Maxim Koretskyi 4 months ago14 min read

In-depth explanation of state and props update in React

A glimpse into the internals of React Fiber

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The difference between NgDoCheck and AsyncPipe in OnPush components

Maxim Koretskyi 4 months ago7 min read

The difference between NgDoCheck and AsyncPipe in OnPush components

An in-depth guide into manual control of change detection in Angular

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The how and why on React’s usage of linked list in Fiber to walk the component’s tree

Maxim Koretskyi 4 months ago10 min read

The how and why on React’s usage of linked list in Fiber to walk the component’s tree

The main algorithm of the work loop in React’s reconciler

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Maxim Koretskyi 17 days ago5 min read

Do you really know what unidirectional data flow means in Angular

Most architectural patterns are not easy to grasp especially when the information that describes them is scarce. One of such patterns in Angular is unidirectional data flow. There’s no clear explanation of what that means in the official documentation and it’s only briefly mentioned in the expression guidelines

Maxim Koretskyi 17 days ago12 min read

What every front-end developer should know about change detection in Angular and React

In my pursuit to grow as a developer I spend a lot of time reverse-engineering web technologies. I’m basically a reverse-engineering addict 😆. The topic that fascinates me the most is change detection. You can find this mechanism in almost any web application. It’s an integral part of the

Maxim Koretskyi 17 days ago8 min read

A curious case of the @Host decorator and Element Injectors in Angular

As you know, Angular’s dependency injection mechanism includes a bunch of decorators like @Optional and @Self which impact the way dependencies are resolved. And while most of them are pretty straightforward and self-explanatory, the @Host decorator has puzzled me for a long time. I haven’t found the docs

Maxim Koretskyi 17 days ago11 min read

Ivy engine in Angular: first in-depth look at compilation, runtime and change detection

I usually finish my talks with the philosophical phrase that nothing stays the same. And as you probably know it’s more then true with Angular. The current rendering engine is being rewritten with the new much enhanced version called Ivy. The current status of Ivy can be tracked here.

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Maxim Koretskyi 17 days ago5 min read

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He who thinks change detection is depth-first and he who thinks it’s breadth-first are both usually right