Colum Ferry articles - 33 total
Qwikify your Development with Nx
In the ever-evolving web development landscape, efficiency and modularity have become paramount. This...
Using NgRx Standalone APIs with Nx
Version 15 of NgRx introduced Standalone APIs to the package, enabling usage of the NgRx with...
Setting up Module Federation with Server-Side Rendering for Angular
Module Federation is a technology provided by webpack that enables modules to be federated across...
Component-First Architecture with Standalone Components and Nx
When Angular 2 released its first pre-release versions, it had no concept of NgModule. We attached...
Generating Standalone Component-based Angular Applications and Libraries with Nx
Angular recently released Standalone Components in an effort to address one of their highest voted...
Setup Module Federation in Angular using Nx
As our Angular applications grow, building the application takes longer and longer. This means we...
Jumpstart your Angular 14 development with Storybook, Tailwind and Nx
With Angular 14 having just released recently, let us discuss how you can take advantage of some of...
Angular CLI and Nx - Why?
In this blog, I’ll present a comparison of both the Angular CLI and the Nx CLI and present some...
Integrate the Remote apps with the Dashboard
This is the fourth and final article in a series of articles that aims to showcase the process of...
Build and Deploy the Remote Applications to Netlify
This is the third article in a series of articles that aims to showcase the process of scaffolding...
Component-First State Management for Angular Standalone Components
Introduction In 2021, Angular announced an RFC (Request For Comments) for Standalone...
Scaffold and Deploy the Dashboard to Netlify
This is the second article in a series of articles that aims to showcase the process of scaffolding...
Component-First Architecture with Angular and Standalone Components
Angular recently had an RFC (Request for Comments) on Standalone Components. It is an effort to make...
Introduction to Deploying Angular MFEs with Netlify
This series of articles will aim to showcase the process of scaffolding and deploying a Micro...
Modern Angular
What is Modern Angular Tooling? With the Angular CLI no longer including a complete...
Improve: RxJS Debugging
Reactive programming in Frontend Web Development makes sense as it's a paradigm focused on reacting t...
NgRx Facade Pattern
NgRx Facade Pattern The NgRx Facade Pattern was first introduced by Thomas Burleson in 201...
Migrating AngularJS to Angular
Introduction There is still a lot of confusion around Angular and AngularJS. It has gotten...
Best Practices for Managing RxJS Subscriptions
When we use RxJS, it's standard practice to subscribe to Observables. By doing so, we create a Subscr...
Creating Observables in RxJS
Observables are the foundation of RxJS. Everything to do with RxJS revolves around Observables. In th...
Basic RxJS Operators and How To Use Them
In our Getting Started With RxJS article, we briefly mentioned Operators. In this article, we will ex...
Clean JavaScript - 10 Tips
We've all been there. We look at our JavaScript from a week, month, year ago and we wonder what kind...
Unit Testing Angular - Services
Following on from my previous post where I introduced unit testing Angular Components, this post will...
Unit Testing Angular - Component Testing
Everyday we are seeing a bigger push towards adding automated tests to our apps. Whether these are un...
Angular < 13: How to support IE11
EDIT: FROM ANGULAR V13, IE11 CAN NO LONGER BE SUPPORTED. IF YOU NEED TO SUPPORT IE11, PLEASE USE A...
The Composite Pattern - Design Patterns Meet the Frontend
The Composite Design Pattern is a structural design pattern with a recursive nature. In this article...
Building a Firebase CRUD Service for Angular
Anyone who knows me, knows I 😍😍 Firebase. It could be considered unhealthy 😂. Despite my love for it,...
Optimising Code to Reduce Cloud Costs
This article is going to be more of a personal anecdote about an interesting situation (🤯) I faced an...
The Factory Pattern - Design Patterns meet the Frontend
Picture this. A Car Dealership selling Cars 🚗. Suddenly, they want to branch out and sell Trucks 🚛. Y...
The Bridge Pattern - Design Patterns meet the Frontend
The Bridge Design pattern is one of the design patterns I've had most difficulty wrapping my head aro...