The Deep Dive #9

The RouterScroller entity is a very interesting part of the Angular Router. In this post, the author is going to have an in-depth look at how it works, what makes its features possible and how it can be configured to suit a developer's needs.

React-Spring is a modern React library based on spring-physics which is highly flexible and it covers almost all of the UI animation needs. It inherits animated powerful interpolations and performance, as well as react-motion’s ease of use. In this article you'll become familiar with the library.

This article discusses the state of RxJS, because the next major version – RxJS 7 – is around the corner. The author takes a close look at new features, deprecations, and removals in both v7 and v7.1 and outlines what to expect going forward in version 8.

Angular CLI schematics offer us a way to add, scaffold and update app-related files and modules. In this article I will guide you through some common but currently undocumented helper functions you can use to achieve your goal.

Until now, the only way to use Shadow DOM was to construct a shadow root using an imperative JavaScript API. This works fine for client-side rendering, however, many web applications need to render content server-side. Declarative Shadow DOM is what will bring Shadow DOM to the server.

Typescript is gaining a lot of momentum. It's the second most loved programming language after Rust according to StackOverflow. In JavaScript we deal with lots of objects of different shape. In this article Dr. Axel Rauschmayer explores how objects and properties are typed statically in TypeScript. He goes in depth into the roles played by objects, the difference between objects literals and interfaces and the mechanism of type inference.

With increasingly complex data structures and software systems, traditional test case based testing strategies cannot scale well to achieve the desired level of test adequacy. Differential (Diff) is one of the new testing techniques adapted to fill this gap. Over the past few years, differential testing has been quickly adopted at big tech companies. Incidentally, this technique is used by React core team to test the framework.

Very much inspired by Conventional Commits, the proposal of conventional comments aims to clarify and disambiguate intention of the reviewer. Nicholas Jamieson in his article explains how he uses this convention when reviewing RxJS pull requests. Also, there's an interesting discussion about that technique on YC.