Brian

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• Providing Module Configuration Using forRoot() And Ahead-Of-Time Compiling In Angular 7.2.0

  Posted on Dec 21, 2019 at 2:44 PM

  @Brian, I'm so wrong here! I just tried to build my library with ng serve lib --prod , and had to come back here as I'm getting the exact errors mentioned. Talk about speaking too soon:-) Great article btw... read more »

• Providing Module Configuration Using forRoot() And Ahead-Of-Time Compiling In Angular 7.2.0

  Posted on Dec 21, 2019 at 11:35 AM

  Instead of using a class for the options, use an object with an InjectionToken const DEFAULT_OPTIONS = { a: 1, b: 2 } static forRoot( options?: ModuleOptions ) : ModuleWithProviders { ..... { provide: FOR_ROOT_OPTIONS_TOKEN, useValue: {DEFAULT_OPTIONS, ...options} } } In the s... read more »

• Translating Viewport Coordinates Into Element-Local Coordinates Using Element.getBoundingClientRect()

  Posted on Dec 8, 2019 at 9:01 AM

  @Marc, I have looking into finding the local click coordinates on an element where the parent has both translate and scale applied e.g. transform: translate(200px, 200px) scale(1.5); Surprisingly, the MouseEvent.offsetX and offsetY were still local to the element and to the original sc... read more »

• Wrapping Immutable Arrays In Mutable Arrays For Easier Processing In Angular 8.2.0-next.0

  Posted on Jul 25, 2019 at 2:54 PM

  Hi. We do a lot of transformation on data we receive via APIs where I work, but our concept of immutability is different from above I think. When we retrieve data from a service, the collection is mapped and each object cloned before being returned (using lodash/fp - compose map assign etc) ... read more »

• Webpack 4 Automatically Makes process.env.NODE_ENV Available In Your JavaScript

  Posted on Jul 17, 2019 at 7:00 AM

  I ran into the process.env.NODE_ENV problem when migrating an Angular Application to use Universal Rendering There is an ng add @nguniversal/express-engine schematic - which worked very well. During the production build process, it uses webpack to bundle the Express server.js - whe... read more »

• My First - And Possibly Last - Look At Reactive Forms In Angular 7.2.13

  Posted on Apr 24, 2019 at 10:04 AM

  Great article. Quick question - how come you use ng-template with [ngFor] rather than ng-container with *ngFor ? It's funny, as I had just read your article about the difference between the two:-)... read more »

• Creating A Jump-To-Anchor Fragment Polyfill In Angular 5.2.0

  Posted on Jan 24, 2018 at 6:05 PM

  I'm struggling to see the need for the Directive. I have implemented something similar, listen to the ActivatedRoute fragment's, then do a document.querySelector, and scroll to the element if it exists. Don't see the need to have a directive wrapping every [id] element... read more »