Nick Raphael articles - 26 total
Redux: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'mySlice')
Oh man, I just had a really annoying redux-toolkit error... Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read...
List git branches ordered by date of last commit
First day back after Christmas break and I'm a bit hazy on what I was working on. I know I was...
How to change the url of a remote git repo...
Hi all, I recently got myself into the situation where all my local git repos had the wrong remote...
Fixing VSCode terminal font
I just noticed that my vscode terminal window was having font issues. Especially obvious when it sho...
With the ngrxLet directive we could get rid of that *ngIf trick that we lovehated
Note: As of writing (22-04-2020), ngrx/components is still experimental. First, I'll go ov...
c# quicky. Should we 'throw;' or 'throw e;'?
This is a bit of an oldie. Very old, in fact, since this question has been around since c# was born....
Getting the min or max value from an array of numbers in javascript
Turns out this is simple. Well, it was simple anyway, but it's also quite concise. I'll provide my...
Got a 'git' conflict and just want to blow away your local changes and take 'theirs'?
I just did a 'git merge' with another branch and I have a merge conflict. I'm happy to lose my chang...
Did you just say you want to 'git add' all those files except 1?
You run a 'git status' and see that you've updated a heap of files. One of those files you don't wan...
Oops, I just pushed a git commit to the wrong branch. What now?
We are currently running off two active branches in our git repository. And by accident I just commi...
Angular's providedIn: "root". What if two lazy modules provided the same service?
Sheesh, I'm not sure about that title. Let's unpack it a little. The modern way for an angular appl...
The common misconception of @Injectable() in angular
What exactly does @Injectable() do? It might not be what you think...
git assume-unchanged. For when you want git to ignore an edit for a while
Quite often, I find myself in the situation where I've updated a file but I don't want git to track t...
How to use 'Suggest a Tweet' effectively
Hopefully you already know this, but bloggers on the dev.to platform can submit a tweet suggestion to...
Typescript Partial<T>, where have you been my whole life?
Oh boy, how did I not know about Partial until now? This is something all Typescripters need to know...
Got a simple webpage you want to host on localhost?
Using NPM to host an html page with lite-server
C#8 changes to using
The 'using' block has been a mainstay in c# since the beginning. C-SharpCorner has a nice desciption...
The hardest won skill in software development
If I had to give you one skill that separates an experienced developer from a junior it’s this... Re...
C# 8.0 static local functions
Here is a quote from the offical microsoft docs... https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/pr...
Introduction to C#7 tuples in readiness for C#8
Who uses tuples? No? Well, I can’t say I really use them either. But that’s likely to change in...
ngOnChanges best practice - always use SimpleChanges - always
ngOnChanges(): "A lifecycle hook that is called when any data-bound property of a directive changes....
Managing rxjs subscriptions with takeUntil()
Whenever posible we should resist the temptation to subscibe to our observables. If we want to accc...
Mocking your ngrx store in a unit test
I hope you're all avidly unit testing all your code. Yes, cough, sure, of course we are. Look, we'v...
What is the rxjs tap function used for?
Official documentation state that the tap operator will: Perform a side effect for every emission on...
Updating multiple areas of your ngrx redux store with a single action
Any pedants out there may take exception to the title of this post. How can we update state when sta...
Combine many ngrx selectors with combineLatest in Angular
Let us suppose we have an area of store that hold the status of a save operation. Our status can hav...