Useful Development

How to avoid big images ruining an Angular web app's performance using: properly sized images, next gen formats and deferred loading.

How to pass configuration options to a lazy loaded, feature module in Angular (>8.0)

This tutorial shows how to create an Angular 9+ library with an Angular Material theme.

A code sample showing how to fade in/out a component and add/remove it from the DOM with NgIf.

A quick guide to filtering duplicate objects from an array in TypeScript.

A guide setting up your Visual Studio Code environment so you can debug the Node Express server created by Angular Universal.

This post shows how to get around the common issues which arise when using OnPush change detection with a FormArray.

WPF customizing the appearance of a window in XAML.

When moving a module into a library the using the Angular cli environment settings is no longer an option. This post shows another option for supporting configuration settings in the module.

This tutorial shows how to create an Angular library with an Angular Material theme.

I had a requirement to record the changes made by the user through a reactive form. Previously I would have just compared the original form data with the updated form values but I decided to have a look at using the dirty property on the form's FormControls instead. It worked pretty well so I thought I would share the code.

How to run an Angular CLI project locally on Windows 10 with SSL and trust the certificate in the browser.

The old blog is gone (or rather went quite a while ago) due to a devops disaster. Apologies to anyone who was using any of the old posts for reference. I'm not going to be restoring the old posts as most of them are obsolete by now. If you need anything I probably have the old code samples so let me know.