In the 4.3 release of Angular, there was a new HttpClient API introduced. HttpClient is an alternative to the existing Http module and exists in its own package (@angular/common/http). For any projects that are using Angular 4.x, both Http and HttpClient are supported so you don’t have to migrate to the HttpClient all at once. However, in Angular 5x, the original HttpModule is deprecated so only HttpClient is supported. Hopefully with this overview you will see that HttpClient is actually easier to use and switching from Http will simplify your http service calls. Continue reading “HTTPClient”
Category: Angular 4
Router Events in Angular
When working with Angular Routing, it’s very useful to be able to respond to routing events – the most obvious and useful being when the route changes. In AngularJS this was accomplished with by attaching a callback function to one the “$routeChange” events on the $scope. In Angular the concept is similar but has some key (and in my opinion, useful) differences.
Once you have a reference to the Router for your application you can subscribe to its “events” observable. This observable will emit a route-event whenever applicable that you can listen for. Being an observable you can subscribe to it in multiple places, filter for the specific event you want, transform the raw event, or anything else you could do with an observable.
Custom Validators for Angular 4
On a recent Angular 4 project I had the need to use some custom form validations. Out of the box, Angular 4 contains validators for required, email, pattern, and min/max length, and it is possible to write your own validators as well. In particular, the custom validation I needed to do was verify that two fields were equal. For example, a form where the user enters a phone number, and then confirms the phone number in a second form field. The custom validation would verify that the two text inputs had the same value.
Angular 4 compared to React/Redux
Our company often does Angular projects so I’ve done a number of Angular 4 projects already and, currently, it’s a love/hate relationship. I wanted to try React so I wrote a side-project that uses React with Redux. This is my high-level comparison between the two.
Angular Form Errors – A Declarative Solution
Most of Angular is different than Angular 1.x, but one of the idioms that stayed the same was the use of class names to identify form fields that had validation errors (e.g. ng-invalid, ng-dirty, ng-touched etc). By checking for different combinations of these classes, you can tell which fields are invalid, have been modified (“ng-dirty”), and had focus at some point (“ng-touched”). However, this had a tendency to lead to some rather verbose and messy view code just to show/hide a validation message:
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Angular 4 Released
Last week, Google released the newest version of their Angular framework, Angular 4.0. The biggest changes seem to be around creating smaller builds and faster code. Our Solutions Group has several Angular 2 applications in production that we have already upgraded to Angular 4, and I am happy to report that the upgrade was smooth in each case.
If you are wondering if upgrading to Angular 4 is a good idea, I have put together a list of potential questions to help you decide.
