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A clear explanation about software engineering

A clear explanation about software development

Everything you need to know about Angular 12

Learn how to migrate to Tailwind 2, and enable just-in-time for applications and Storybook

How to delay the execution of your Angular app

Discover how Angular applications are bootstrapped

First post on my new blog.

How my failed startup experience led to 80K views in a month

Learn how to integrate the Apollo GraphQL client in a Next.js TypeScript application

Discover the essence of the Design Sprint 2.0 approach

Learn about UI, UX and CX

I’ve been working for ~20 months on my current project, spend 2K hours on it, and “lost” 200K € by not doing something else. That project is not ready yet. Here’s the story behind it.

Learn how to use HTML and CSS to build a table of contents

A modern way to develop Office plugins

Everything you need to know about Angular 11

Here's how to mock TypeScript method overloads with Jest

Here's how to become a real full-stack developer.

Here's how to avoid nesting code needlessly.

Learn how to create Moment decorators.

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Teams are way more fragile than you can imagine. Here are ten more things that can demolish one.

Great teams are hard to craft but much easier to break.

Junior team members should never be left alone. Here's why

Let me tell you how I managed to be more successful with my writing

Exploring the roadmap of Angular

Exploring everything new with RxJS 7

Let’s now learn about Git branches!

Everything you need to know about Angular 10

The MatPaginator component of Angular Material can be translated, but it requires a specific approach.

Validating incoming data is of the utmost importance for security. Let’s explore why and how to handle this concern with NestJS and class-validator

Validating incoming data is of the utmost importance for security. Let’s explore why and how to handle this concern with NestJS and class-validator

Here are a few useful tips showing how to loop over TypeScript enum keys and values

Here’s a real quick introduction to the TypeScript programming language.

Let's see how to access the ChangeDetectorRef for any third party Angular component and use it to work around bugs!

Your bundle size exceeds the allocated budget or is getting close to it? Moment.js might be one of the major culprits. Let’s see how to fix the situation using a custom Webpack configuration

Everything new with TypeScript 4.0

Discover how to analyze the JS bundles of your Angular applications to identify and fix issues using webpack-bundle-analyzer.

Part 2: Let's dive into the new Component-store library of NGRX!

Part 1: Component-store is an upcoming reactive library of the NGRX family. Let’s discover it and see what it’s all about!

In Angular, a neat new template type checking mode has been introduced, called strictTemplates. Let me tell your what it is and why you should enable it.

In this article, I’ll explain why you might need to customize the Webpack configuration of your Angular applications and I’ll of course also show you how to do so using angular-builders webpack-config.

I almost never forget things at work. When I do, I really feel embarrassed. What about you? Here's what I do to keep track of everything.

In medium to large companies, it’s almost always the case that your Web traffic has to go through a corporate proxy to reach the Web. Here’s how to find out more about those proxies and how to use them from your tools and terminals.

In this third article of the series, we’re going to discover how to create and modify commits with Git, but also how to look at the commit log.

Embedding translations in your JS bundles can be useful to speed things up if you know that users need to switch between languages regularly. Here's how to do it

Switch statements are sometimes considered a code smell, but when they do make sense to use, you’d better make sure you don’t forget a single case. Luckily, TypeScript can help.

Learn why ngOnInit is not always the best solution

There is almost no use in installing npm packages globally. Here's why

As Angular projects grow, it is quite common to add data to your routes. This article shows how to strongly type such data

This article explains what git repositories are, as well as how the working tree and staging area works

Learn everything about git, step by step. Part 1

Learn everything about git, step by step. Part 1

Everything new with TS 3.9

How to correctly handle scrolling upon Angular route transitions

Learn how to configure PurgeCSS with Tailwind to reduce get rid of useless styles

How to leverage Bash aliases to boost your productivity

How to get rid of pods that are stuck in the "Terminating" state

How to translate a PrimeNG menu dynamically

The coolest improvements coming with TypeScript 3.9

The goals of TypeScript are obvious, but do you know about its non-goals?

In this article, I’ll explain how my commenting practice (yes, that’s a thing :p) has evolved as well as what I currently recommend, whether you’re a junior fresh out of school, a seasoned developer…

Learn how to create a Storybook including stories from multiple libraries in a Nrwl Nx workspace

TypeScript interfaces and custom types are great. Use them as much as you can; here's why

Here is the quickest way to amend a git commit

How to fix the “can’t resolve all parameters” exception with Angular

How to customize Quill editors through ngx-quill in an Angular application

Leverage TypeScript paths to avoid problems with your imports

How to use ngx-translate with Storybook stories

How to use Type-Only imports and exports with TypeScript 3.8

Tips and tricks for a better remote work experience

Use stable versions of Node.js and npm to avoid surprises

How to drastically reduce CI/CD build times for Node.js projects using a custom Docker image

How to configure Tailwind in Angular and Storybook

Let dark times behind you

Here's how to writer more secure applications

A writer's process and tools. Kickstart your writing!

Tips to learn faster

Fifth newsletter of DeveloPassion

Practical advice to better balance life and work.

Sometimes in life, we try too hard for too long.

How to implement a service worker using Workbox, TypeScript, Webpack, and Angular

How to deploy TLS certificates for local development and production using Kubernetes, cert-manager, mkcert and Let’s Encrypt

How to add missing GPG keys when using WSL

Awesome extension packs to boost your productivity with VS Code

How to enjoy beautiful typewriter sounds while writing on Linux

An appendix to my TypeScript book

Tips to use VSCode like a pro

Extending the MoSCoW method to tag daily tasks

How to configure sourcemaps with the Angular CLI

Using capture groups and back references to search and replace in IntelliJ

Efficient way to find final methods in a Java project

Fixing bash is not recognized as an internal or external command error

The story behind my TypeScript book

How to write integration tests for a GraphQL API using Spring Boot 2.x and Kotlin

How to clean database tables after each integration test in a Spring Boot application using Kotlin

How to setup and use JUnit 5 and Mockito in a Spring Boot Kotlin based project

A small bean validation constraint annotation in Kotlin for UUIDs

Some notes about my current setup for GPG/PGP.