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Understanding & using RxJS in Angular

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One of the main challenges in the world of web development is to achieve a seamless user experience. Many factors come into play when trying to achieve the goal of a smooth UX. The user interface, the load-time of webpages, and updating any data/input sent, are some prominent examples.

All web development frameworks offer tools that enable the developer to make the UX as smooth as possible. After all, it’s an important aspect of a website. In the case of the popular front-end framework Angular, such a tool is the RxJS library.

Through RxJS, Angular applications can employ the reactive programming and functional programming paradigms to ensure a smoothly working inside-out. This article acts as a quick guide to RxJS and how it is used in Angular applications. It will discuss some of its robust features and give you their flavor through code examples. Using RxJS to speed up and improve an Angular application’s UX is common practice and this article will show you why.

What Does RxJS Do Exactly?

In the everyday workings of a website, it handles different requests and events. Requests like inputting/outputting certain data or transforming some data, and events like responding to a mouse click or keyboard key press. If all of the requests and events are coming in one after another (synchronously), they are responded to in that order. However, few frameworks can respond quickly and reactively in the case of asynchronous requests and events.

RxJS is a JavaScript library of functions that allow to smoothly handle asynchronous events and requests. The name comes from the fact that it enables reactive programming in JavaScript. It allows for playing with and tracking time in your Angular application. The amount of time between responses or events can be fine-tuned as required through RxJS, letting the developer control the responsiveness of the application.

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Getting to learn about Angular Ivy

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The software development world is a dynamic one. Tools and applications are constantly upgrading and getting better to make advanced technology possible. Technologies that do not upgrade will eventually become obsolete and fade away with time. The principle of constant upgrading is especially true for the really popular tools, like the front-end framework Angular. To provide developers with a more robust and solid front-end development experience, Angular introduced a cutting-edge compilation and rendering pipeline in their version 9. The new engine was christened Ivy.

With Ivy, Angular aimed to double down on the advantages it traditionally offered. This article will take you through all the new advancements that come bundled with Ivy. It will also quickly go through what is deprecated and how it handles Angular applications made on the previous View engine. Angular Ivy was made to accommodate all exciting new developments that could be needed in the future. This article talks about the updates that followed the original rollout.

What’s New In Angular Ivy

Ivy was introduced as the default engine with Angular’s version 9 and continues to support subsequent versions. One of the main aims of Angular’s Ivy engine was to amplify the performance and minimize the file size of Angular applications. The development team behind Angular employed different techniques to achieve the aim of faster and lighter Angular applications. The prominent strategies behind Ivy are discussed below:

The Ivy Compiler

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Diving Into Angular Services

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When building any kind of application, it is often seen that a certain functionality is needed again and again at different points. It could be the functionality to display something in a certain way or retrieve data from a source, to name a few examples. Such a common case like this can appear in all kinds of development, be it front-end or back-end. A robust front-end development framework like Angular handles such a case by allowing the development of objects that can be imported by any part as needed. These objects can extract some common logic or data are known as services.

This article helps you understand what Angular services are and what are the different kinds of use-cases they can be used in. Angular services are not limited to one particular type of job and can contain methods that are repeatedly required by different components of the application. Afterward, this article will show what it is like to code service and what makes it accessible to any of the components.

The Gist Of What Angular Services Are

Given how fundamental components are to Angular applications, it is important to briefly go through them to further understand any other concept, like services. Apart from that, components and services are often confused with each other as well. Hence, it is necessary to refresh our understanding of components.

Components are the very backbone of Angular applications. All the different functionalities or visual elements of the application are attributed to a component. Every component contains the working logic for the functionality or visual element and the instructions for its visual rendering. Every Angular application is based on a tree of components. In the component tree, every component working is dependent on or consists of, other component(s).

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A Quick Guide To Angular Pipes

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Impressive web development is the result of a successful synergy of robust back-end and an appealing front-end. Usually, the back-end is thought to be the ‘brains’ of a webpage and the front-end is merely the shiny exterior. However, with the right front-end development framework, powerful computations can happen directly on the front-end as well. Angular happens to be one of such impressive front-end development frameworks. Through its templates, Angular offers the opportunity for data to be processed and formatted in a certain way right there in the HTML code. This is made possible through functions with easy-to-understand syntax and usage, and they are called pipes.

This article will serve as a quick guide to tell you all the meaty stuff to know about pipes and how to effectively use them. Pipes come in various types and can significantly simplify data collection and processing in use cases where the front-end is the main gateway of obtaining the data. The article will also discuss how pipes are tested during the unit testing of Angular applications (which is not as difficult as it may seem for some).

The Ins And Outs Of Angular Pipes

Before moving on to discussing Angular pipes, it is imperative to understand what Angular components and templates are. Pipes are present in the template part of the component, making it necessary to understand the former to grasp the utility of the latter.

Angular applications are fundamentally made up of units called components. Each component is centered around a certain functionality or visual aspect of the application. These components are self-contained and consist of both its working logic along with instructions about its visual rendering. The latter is stored in what are called templates. Templates are simply HTML code that can be in the form of a separate file or inline code within the @Component decorator (which is written in TypeScript). An example of an Angular component can be seen below.

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Knowing All About Angular Templates

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All the popular frameworks used in the world of front-end development have different approaches to the tools offered for development. However, almost all frameworks focus on providing as much encapsulation as possible. More encapsulation would mean that the developer does not need to worry about nitty-gritty details and the client does not see what they don’t need to see. This leads to a smoother development and an easy-to-understand view of the application to the client. The popular front-end development framework Angular exhibits this principle in many different ways. One of the most prominent examples being through the use of templates.

This article explains what templates are and how Angular uses them to further streamline the front-end development process. Through templates, a developer is able to keep the graphical layout of an aspect of the Angular application separate from its working logic. However, communication between the graphical and logical parts is still possible. This article will take you through to make use of these templates and some of the more advanced functionality they can offer.

Understanding Angular Templates

Before moving on to discussing templates, it is important to grasp what Angular components are. After all, a template is an integral part of a component. Through components, we will be able to better understand the purpose and workings of a template.

At the fundamental level of any Angular application lies a tree of components. Each bigger component is connected to a child component(s) that it can pass data on to and invoke the creation of. Each component is associated with a certain functionality of the application and this modular nature helps with a more sophisticated development process. The Angular component is self-contained, in the sense that it consists of the working logic for the functionality and its visual representation. While the former is defined through a class, the latter is done through a template.

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Getting To Know Angular Components

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Angular is one of the most popular front-end development frameworks out there. It is a leading choice for personal as well as industry-level development of web applications due to its robust capabilities. While Angular is popular for many different reasons, one of the main ones is its modular nature. Modularity makes it easy for the developer to keep track of all the different elements being used to program functionalities. It also helps in keeping consistency and even reusing a block of code or functionality multiple times.

This modularity lies at the heart of Angular in the form of elements called components. This article will quickly take you through all the important bits to know about Angular components, their usage, how they are useful, and some code examples. Components make Angular easy to learn and applications easy to structure. Through this article, you’ll get to see how Angular components make all of this possible.

What Are Angular Components Exactly?

Components lie at the foundation of Angular applications. They interact similar to how HTML elements do in terms of passing data between elements and emitting events. Each of the components has some behavior attached to it that tells what data to render or load and a template that tells it how to render the data. An Angular application is based on a component tree structure where different components have child components and so on. Data is shared from parent to child components through an ‘input binding.’ Similarly, it can be shared the other way around through outputs.

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Only 39% of the functions in node_modules are unique in the default Angular project

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Only 39% of the functions in node_modules are unique in the default Angular project created by ng new my-app.


I think the developers of open source solve problems in the same ways, because they study the same algorithms. Well, why be honest, they copy the popular solutions from StackOverflow also.


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Rich text editors from backend perspective

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Welcome everyone, in this article I’m going to overview the most popular types of rich text editors, tradeoffs of their use from a backend perspective. By that I mean:

  • Streaming of content from the rich text editor to other infrastructure tools like full-text search, warehouses, etc.
  • Retrieving of content to clients: mobile, web, desktop.
  • Storing of content in some kind of storage (SQL database in my case)
  • Analyzing of content, which includes point 1, but also analyzing it from the perspective of our application
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Data Science vs AI: All You Need To Know

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What do these terms mean? And what is the difference?


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Data Science and Artificial Intelligence are creating a lot of buzzes these days. But what do these terms mean? And what is the difference between them?

While the terms Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (AI) comes under the same domain and are inter-connected to each other, they have their specific applications and meaning.

There’s no slowing down the spread of AI and data science. Many big tech giants are extensively investing in these technologies. As per the recent survey, it is estimated that artificial intelligence could add $15.7 trillion to the global economy by 2030.

Through this piece of writing, I will be explaining about the AI and data science concepts and their differences in detail. So, without wasting any more time, let’s get started!
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Most Popular JS Frameworks Overview

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JavaScript is a multi-paradigm language. It supports event-driven, functional, and imperative, including object-oriented and prototype-based, programming styles. JavaScript was initially used only for client side. These days JavaScript is used as a server-side programming language as well. To summarize in just one simple sentence — JavaScript is the language of the web.

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Prettier is a Must-Have for Large-Scale Projects: Spent 20 Minutes Setting It Up and Forgot About Formatting for a Year

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Many dev teams get split over formatting. And their typical day looks like this: you come to work, have some coffee, write some code, everything’s fine — then bam! Code review where you’re told you put a brace in the wrong place.

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It was an everyday reality for one of Skyeng dev teams a year ago. Then someone had enough and said, “Guys, from now on we use Prettier. Is everyone ok with that?” And then there were no more debates about formatting. We’ve installed Prettier in the frontend repo and all the teams use it.
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Angular: The Best Building Companion for Interactive apps

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Do you know there were 5 million apps in 2019? Out of these millions of apps, only a few are able to perform. There are many reasons for this but a major factor is the interactivity of an app.

No matter which product you are trying to sell, customers choose the one which allows them to get involved. Interactive apps are in demand for a long time. Are you wondering how can you make an interactive app?

The first thing which comes to our mind when we talk about interactive apps is the concept of single page application. This is because SPAs are known for their capacity to interact with the user by reloading some page elements dynamically depending upon the interaction by the user.
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Vue.js Is Good, But Is It Better Than Angular or React?

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Vue.js is a JavaScript library for building web interfaces. Combining with some other tools It also becomes a “framework”. Now, from our last blog, you already know that Vue.js is one of the top JavaScript frameworks and it is replacing Angular and React in many cases. This brings in the topic of this blog ‘Vue.js is good, but is it better than Angular or React?


In case you’ve never heard or used Vue.js before, you are probably thinking: Come on! yet another JavaScript framework! We get it. However, Vue.js is not new in the custom software development domain. It was first released in 2013 and now it has 130549 stars on Github and downloaded a number of times this year.
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It's high time to become part of an open source project

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JavaScript developers, I am working on an exciting opensource project pursuing two goals:

  1. Learning best practices in JavaScript/NodeJS
  2. Helping developers and myself to develop and launch MVPs to validate ideas quickly.

As developers, we have tons of ideas and would be awesome to have a simple tool to scaffold a secure project quickly, add a couple of forms, some project specific logic, and here you go — deploy and test your idea.
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Angular vs. KnockoutJS: The Fundamental Differences and Similarities You Should Know

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It's extremely befuddling when it comes to choosing between two libraries and frameworks, especially when they are almost similar to each other.

I faced the same situation recently when I had to choose one from Angular vs KnockoutJS. The most perplexing part of the two is Angular is a JavaScript-based open-source front-end web development framework while Knockout is a library.

So, the selection is a bit complex task and, as I had to, you might need to go through a systematic and understand the two technologies or web development framework thoroughly.

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So, you need to begin following the one-by-one method.

What is Framework?


A framework is a model on which you have to build your home. It is having a collection of blueprints which from which it choose the right one for you. In short, the framework is in charge of the flow and it chooses when and how to go.

What is the Library?


The library is like going to a furniture house to get some furniture for your home. Here you are in charge of the flow and you decide when to call the code.

Overview of Angular and KnockoutJS


Angular

KnockoutJS

Stable Release
Version 8.0.0 on / May 29, 2019 3.5.0 / February 22, 2019
Managed by
Google Steve Anderson
Programming Language
JavaScript JavaScript
Type
Web Framework JavaScript Library
Routing
Angular Supports Not Available
Testing
Protractor works as test framework Not Available
Documentation
Well organized Documenations Poor Documentation
GitHub Stars
59,555 9,526

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Angular vs React: Complete Library with a Framework

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Google and Facebook are the computerized behemoths who dependably contend. Their answers for designers Angular and React appear matches as well. Demand helps look at both. The article was initially posted here


Toward the start of its advancement, SPA web stages did not have an adaptable however basic framework for making the ventures that could revise and, now and again, supplant both portable and work area applications. Around then, a client whose issue was very basic needed to discover an application equipped for tackling the issue. Over the span of time, the advancements continued pushing ahead making web administrations gain ubiquity since the last had no should be introduced. What was required is simply to visit a site for getting to some administration. Already, such errands could be tackled through sites written in either ActionScript or Java. Nonetheless, those frameworks required to introduce either Flash or Java being in the meantime a long way from the speed expected by the clients.@Angular


By then, JavaScript advanced adequately to desert its adversaries because of a fast, improvement straightforwardness, and ceaseless help of the programs' engineers. The period of JavaScript began inciting such definition as SPA (Single Page Application) which gave another way to deal with the advancement of web stages. Not at all like its precursor MPA (Multi-Page Application), SPA permitted a web administration to work a lot quicker just as to give it an increasingly refined usefulness fit for changing progressively as per clients' needs. The greatest disadvantage was in unadulterated JavaScript which couldn't give a quick improvement when even a crude SPA web administration required a ton of time to be made. That is the reason Google chosen to help the methodology with a system that could enable different organizations to create muddled web administrations without investing a lot of energy for it.

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