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What’s The Hype With Angular’s OnPush Change Detection? Condensed Angular Experiences – Part 2

Every now and then, we think about optimizing and tuning the performance of our applications. In terms of Angular, one of the first strategies that come to our minds is the OnPush change detection.

But how does it work, and is it worth putting effort into using it? For what use-cases does it make a difference? This article explores precisely that and tries to answer those questions.

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NgRx – An Angular Architect’s First Experiences

A big topic in SPA development is how to manage your application state. The solution often presented is the NgRx library. This article is not a guide, endorsement, or thorough evaluation of the technology. Instead, I want to share some experiences I have made with the store and give some references if you consider picking it up or already using it in a project.

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From an Angular Web App to a Hybrid App with Capacitor and Ionic Framework

Creating mobile and desktop applications is a complicated task. Different operating systems require us to have in-depth knowledge of multiple platforms. The web solves most of the problems for us by providing a single platform that runs everywhere – supported by different operating systems and browser vendors. Frameworks like Angular bring the power to write business applications for the web and make a once written application available to everyone.

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Visual Testing Of Angular Components With Storybook & Chromatic

In a previous article, From paper sketch to a running application – Adobe XD, Storybook & Angular in action, I described the basics of writing Storybook stories and Angular components. In this follow-up, you will learn to enhance the Storybook workflow through visual testing to achieve fast feedback and development iterations. Not only does visual testing improve the overall quality and stability of your web-based software. The stakeholders also get to see something early, which means that changes are still possible in the developing process.

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Additional Approaches: Advanced Progressive Web Apps – Push Notifications Under Control – Part 4

In the previous parts of this article series, we learned that Apple does not support the standardized web-based push mechanisms, and there is no sign of a possible timeline for implementation. Therefore we have to look at additional ways to bring the users’ attention back to our application. Let’s use the final article of the series to have a quick look at some approaches that will let us send some form of push message without using the Push API.

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Creating Web Components With Modern SPA Frameworks – Angular, React, And Vue.Js

You might have read the article series about Web Components in which we talked about the advantages and disadvantages of Web Components in detail and how they are integrable in modern SPA frameworks. This article focuses on how you can create Web Components using a modern SPA framework and also addresses Angular Elements, Vue.js Web Components, and React. Besides, we will take a look at how to structure a project.

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