The pimple-simple explanation for dummies like me. — Nail this and you’ll leap-frog your competence as an Angular developer. What is the difference between a Promise and an Observable? And how do you master the difference without bending your mind into pretzel knots? In a way that’s as simple and plain as the nose on your face?

Performance problems are aggravating. 😠 — As aggravating as being crammed into an airplane seat with broken glass in your underwear. And all the more so when you don’t know what’s causing them. … So how do you profile an Angular app and discover what’s causing your runtime performance to be sluggish? Where do you even…

If you want to create a boring Angular application then don’t read this.

If your Angular form accepts any kind of input under the sun…expect it to blow up in your face. 💥💥💥 — Garbage in. And… Garbage out. Have you ever heard someone say that? ☝️ If you build forms with Angular then validating user input is one of the best ways to avoid hazards. If your Angular form accepts any kind of input under the sun… with no or even minimal input…

Users are demanding that we deliver faster, better experiences. Create an Angular app shell to help achieve this. — The App Shell has overtaken the web industry with a whir. And it’s no wonder because users are demanding that we deliver faster experiences. No one tolerates slow web apps these days. And the demand only accelerates the app shell architecture boom even more. Slow Angular apps are boring —…

Who would-a guessed.. That… One of the most popular Angular questions on Stack Overflow… Is a question about the difference between Angular’s constructor and the OnInit function?

Who else wants to add Google Analytics to their Angular application? — Adding Google Analytics to your Angular app is easy. Well, adding it to an Angular SPA is not quite as easy compared to static websites but it can be done quickly if you know what you’re doing. There’s no need to sweat like a pig. Or blow a fuse.

Who else wants to use Angular’s honking powerful async pipe? — And why it makes you feel like ridding in a big elevator. The Angular framework seems to have a crush on reactive programming. With a special affection for RxJS. 😘 😘 😘 That’s why the RxJS library is a dependency in every Angular project that I’ve ever seen. And it’s the reactive programming that newbies complain about — it does a splendid…