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In web development there are a lot of performance optimisations that are commonly used and discussed, but often without a deep understanding of why such...

For the last few months I have been working with Svelte. As a developer who has worked on a lot of Angular codebases as well...

In this article I will talk about Church encoding, the mechanism by which we can encode operators and data using lambda calculus. In particular I...

I have recently become very interested in functional programming - using pure functional languages such as Haskell, as well as functional programming in JavaScript. One...

In this article I will explain, with examples, when and why you should use map, filter and reduce in your JavaScript code. I will show...

In the past few months I have started working with Docker. Initially I found that there was a lot to remember in terms of Docker’s...

Pure functions are a really great thing! By understanding them and using them in the right way, your code will become more readable, testable, performant,...

When working with single page application frameworks, the routing is usually handled by some routing module or package. For many developers, how this routing actually...

For any JavaScript project, whether it be frontend or backend, we usually rely on a number of third party, open source npm packages - these...

Angular Universal is a technology which allows you to create Angular apps that render both in the browser and on a Node.js server. Unlike a...

Angular Universal is a technology which allows you to create Angular apps that render both in the browser and on a Node.js server. This is...

Observable, observer, producer, subscriber, finite/infinite, unicast/multicast, hot/cold, subject, operator, … and so on. There are a lot of new concepts and terminology that come with...

One of the things that was introduced in Angular 6 was the ability to create and build libraries with the Angular CLI. When I first...

I often find myself needing to write code to respond to the user having clicked outside a particular Angular Component or DOM element - this...

In my previous article, PWAs with Angular - Part 1: Understanding Service Worker, I walked through how to build a simple offline application using plain...

Recently, I have been hearing a lot of hype around Progressive Web Apps (PWAs). At first glance PWAs seem rather amazing and revolutionary - something...