I’ve recently had an extremely weird application behavior. The application is this server side rendered Angular page.  I discovered that the router outlet for this page was empty on the SSR result. I hadn’t noticed before since the site was bootstrapping really fast even without SSR. A quick look into Sentry – which holds our […]
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As a developer you may get the task adding a Sitemap and a robot.txt to your Angular project. This is quite easy if it is being built with Angular CLI. Copy the files next to the favicon.ico  into the /src  folder of your Angular project.

  Now open up the angular.json file in the […]
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When working with Angular Universal we can implement a full-fledged server. Of course, this does not only include for example to display a 404 page for incorrect urls but also setting the correct status code. So that for example search engines and crawlers in general can process the result correctly. Angular itself allows us to […]
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Since I have seen a lot of very different approaches to build up an Angular application correctly regarding the CSS positioning, I would like to talk about the different solutions in a short article. Basically it has to be said that our application is usually included in an HTML document as app-root. An index.html created with […]
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A few weeks ago, Google has released its new solution for building scalable cloud databases — the Cloud Firestore. It has some nice improvements in comparison to their previous database (which used to be called Firebase but is now referred to as ‘Realtime Database’), like better data structuring and a more powerful querying API. In this […]
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What is this article about? If you develop a web application with Angular, sooner or later you will run into the following problem: Where will the data generated by the client be validated? Client side validation is included in Angular, and gives the user a fast feedback about the correctness of his data. This is […]
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tl:dr; Solve this Issue: Add the following line to your imports:

  Full version: A common problem affecting many developers when writing tests for the Angular 4 HTTP service is the following stack trace. It occurs if you assemble an response using a the wrong class. The call of .json()will throw the error.

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NativeScript is a great framework to write mobile Apps for Android and iOS with Angular (2, 4 and so on). Read on, if you: have an existing Angular Web App or are planning to develop one you want to offer a native App for Android and iOS without a lot of extra work TL;DR It is […]
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Have you ever wondered how you can get a Action Bar like this one in Nativescript? It’s easy: I hope you have Android Studio preinstalled, you need it. Create and open a example Android Project with Android Studio. Now Right-Click on your Project Folder, select   New -> Vector Asset which opens a new Dialog. You can select the Icon […]
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Have you ever had this error message in Visual Studio Code with the nativescript-vscode extension? (I use Ubuntu 16.04) I had this problem for a while now and didn’t find any bug report that helped me, after adding the correct ‘nativescript.tnsPath’ to the workspace settings, the problem still exists. The most funny part, from the […]
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