Angular Addicts Issue #3: recent version updates, my fav tweets & more

My favourite Angular resources of June, 2022

👋Hey fellow Angular Addict

This is the third issue of the Angular Addicts Newsletter, a monthly collection of carefully selected Angular resources that got my attention. (You can read the first issue and second issue here.)

💎Angular Gems of June, 2022

📰Angular Architecture Design

In his article, Stefan Haas summarises how software architecture affects the development speed and maintainability of an Angular project, and then he describes the four most common architectures:

• Spaghetti,

• Monolith,

• Modulith and

• Micro Frontend.

Angular Architecture Design

📰Improving Angular Initial Load Time

In case of large Angular applications, initial loading takes a lot of time, resulting in a poor user experience. Cristian-Florin Calina demonstartes six techniques for reducing the application loading time.

Improving Angular initial load time

📰Angular CLI and Nx — Why?

Colum Ferry compares the features of Angular CLI and Nx CLI, explains the key differences and how Nx’s additional commands work.

Angular CLI and Nx — Why?

📰RxJS Testing — Write Unit Tests for Observables

In his in-depth tutorial, Denis Loh explains how Marble testing works and shares different techniques you can use for covering your RxJS code with unit tests.

RxJS Testing — Write Unit Tests for Observables

📰10 Tips to Be a Good Angular Developer

Ivano Di Gese explains ten best practices on how to organise your code and how to choose a UI kit and a state manager.

10 Tips to Be a Good Angular Developer

📢Release announcements

📢Angular v14 is now available!

Angular 14 was released in early June, Emma Twersky’s blog post introduces the biggest highlights of this new version.

Angular v14 is now available!

📢Announcing NgRx v14: Action Groups, ComponentStore Lifecycle Hooks, ESLint package, Revamped NgRx Component, and more!

v14 is a new major version of the NgRx framework, Brandon Roberts show us some interesting new features and updates.

Announcing NgRx v14: Action Groups, ComponentStore Lifecycle Hooks, ESLint package, Revamped NgRx Component, and more!

📢Nx 14.2 — Angular v14, Storybook update, lightweight Nx and more!

In his blog post, Juri Strumpflohner showcases the latest version Nx 14.2: it has Angular v14 and Storybook 6.5 support. It also includes performance optimisations to speed up development work.

Nx 14.2 — Angular v14, Storybook update, lightweight Nx and more!

📢Announcing TypeScript 4.8 Beta

Daniel Rosenwasser announces the latest beta release of TypeScript v4.8 and highlights what’s new in v4.8:

• Improved Intersection Reduction, Union Compatibility, and Narrowing

• Improved Inference for infer Types in Template String Types

• --build, --watch, and --incremental Performance Improvements

• Errors When Comparing Object and Array Literals

• Improved Inference from Binding Patterns

• File-Watching Fixes (Especially Across git checkouts)

• Find-All-References Performance Improvements

• Breaking Changes

Announcing TypeScript 4.8 Beta

💬 Tweets

Here is a collection of my favourite tweets from June, 2022:

Netanel Basal @NetanelBasal

Directives and pipes from the CommonModule can now be imported individually and via the CommonModule. #Angular

Angular @angular

Angular v14 is here 🎉 #ngUpdate includes: 🔑 Strictly typed forms! 🌈 Streamlined page title accessibility 🗯 CLI autocomplete ➕ a developer preview of standalone components! 🤯 & so much more! Learn all about v14: 📚 goo.gle/angular-v14

Decoded Frontend (Dmytro Mezhenskyi) 🇺🇦 @DecodedFrontend

Frontend Snack #11💡Check out the #Angular decorator @ Attribute() and learn where it might be useful. Like it? Retweet it! 🙏🏻 💁🏼‍♂️ If you’re interested in advanced tutorials about #Angular? Check out my channel - bit.ly/DecodedFrontend #angulartip #angulardev

Alex Inkin @Waterplea

Did you know that `forwardRef` is considered constructor context and that shiny new `inject` function from #Angular 14 works inside it? 😎 stackblitz.com/edit/angular-c…

Tomas Trajan 🇨🇭 @tomastrajan

#RxJs tip of the day! How to implement time based caching of a RxJs #Observable stream? ✅ old vs new way ✅ available since RxJs 7.1 ✅ clean, declarative, self-contained ✅ great for caching of frequent backend requests in #Angular apps

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🕹️Previous issues

If you missed the first two issue of the newsletter, you can read it here:

• Angular Addicts Issue #1: Nx Conf, Dev Survey & more

• Angular Addicts Issue #2: Angular 14, NX 14, RxJS and NgRx tips & more

📨 Submit your Angular resource

Have you found or written an interesting Angular-related article, tweet or other resource lately? Please let me know here in the comments or send me a DM on Twitter! I might feature it in the next Angular Addicts issue!

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