Want to set focus on an HTML element in your Angular app? The following step-by-step tutorial shows you how to do it easily. For a live demo of the final result, see this StackBlitz. Step-by-step Let’s start by adding an input element and a button to our component’s template. We give the input element an […]
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Today i needed a Flexbox row to break into an equal amount of tiles. Some Browser support the css page break to achieve this but unfortunately this isn’t working in Google Chrome. So I had to figure something out. The solution is to add an element that is hidden by default and steps in as […]
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    #1 Project Setup Animations in Angular 2 are probably easier than you think. In this tutorial we will create a simple side navigation that will leave and enter the screen from the right side. We will use Angular-CLI and TypeScript but you should also be able to adopt the steps to any other […]
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Sometimes one might get into the unfortunate need to change a git commit. In this post I will show some options to revert or change commits which are not yet pushed to an remote branch.

In my current project I came to a situation where it was necessary to drop specific components into my view. Since the project is a game and the current view should not be tied to URLs at this point i decided not to use the router but to load my various components dynamically into my view. This gives […]
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From time to time you may need to add a proxy to your Ionic 2 project. It is actually really simple but many articles in the web still refer to the old Ionic 2 build using webpack. Since it is now gulp based and modularized you must use the ionic.config.json file in order to create a […]
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There are many modules to include Google Analytics into your Angular 2 project. But actually this overhead is not really required since a plain implementation is only a few lines of code. So you can spare extra modules. I highly recommend you to use Google Tag Manager in order to place the tracking information on […]
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Setting up Ionic 2 debugging is pretty easy. Above all make sure to have the “Phonegap/Cordova” Plugin installed when you want to start Ionic from Run. To do so go to Settings -> Plugins -> Install JetBrains plugin and search for “cordova”. Next step is to enable Run Cordova, go to Run -> Edit Configuration and […]
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Have you ever heard of ‘Mobile Native JavaScript‘? – No? It’s about writing native Apps with a native look & feel, but purely in JavaScript and the web technologies you love. The past We as developers had to make the hard decision, about writing a new app either native for each platforms or a hybrid […]
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Usually you inject Nav:NavController into your classes constructor to use it:

But if you are working in a service you will receive the following error:

If you want to show alerts from within a service you are required to use the NavController.  To do so simply create the private field nav with type NavController. […]
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