There are many great articles and books available on how to use and configure Angular router. In contrast, little information is available on what Angular router actually does once it is running. This article is not an introduction to Angular router or a guid…
Modern JavaScript development can be overwhelming. When working on a project, you may wonder why all the modern machinery and tooling is needed. What are tools like Webpack and SystemJS doing? Or what do AMD, UMD or CommonJS mean? How do they relate to each o…
On July 6 and July 7, 2016 I attended the Angular 2 Master Class by Thoughtram in the Showpad offices in Ghent. The purpose of this review is to share how I experienced the class as an attendee. It summarizes my personal thoughts only and is by no means influ…
On June 29 and June 30, 2016 I attended Brecht Billiet's Angular 2 Workshop at Holiday Inn Ghent Expo. The purpose of this review is to share how I experienced the class as an attendee. It summarizes my personal thoughts only and is by no means influenced by…
In this modern era, software is often using token-based authentication so that parts of the software can be isolated as stateless processes. Although this is a great practice and allows for highly scalable software, it increases the complexity for us, front-e…
A few weeks ago I was privileged to spend time with Pascal Precht while he was preparing his talk for NG-NL on Angular 2 change detection. We spent hours and hours figuring out how change detection works. The more we examined the Angular 2 source code, the m…