Genuitec's Blog: October, 2017

If you have kept true to JavaScript (JS), using TypeScript (TS) doesn’t represent abandoning a good old friend. It’s simply moving on to its typed superset – basically, getting JS with optional static types, which gets you the best of both worlds (the JS flexibility and strengthened TS … Read More

Testing is one of the most important aspects of the modern application development process. Today, high quality, robust applications are the norm; nobody appreciates a buggy application. This article will walk you through testing your Angular application using capabilities that are already part of your Angular project. Creating … Read More

Often, when developing Angular applications, you do not have the backing REST APIs ready for testing. To avoid having to digress into developing web services, or being blocked, waiting for your back end team to provide them, you can use JSON server to provide a “fake” API. This … Read More

Front-end developers, rejoice – after a short delay, the Angular 5 release is scheduled for October 23rd!Update (November 1st): It’s finally here! After ten release candidates, Angular version 5.0.0, “pentagonal-donut”, has been released.Update (October 31st): Well, we’re still waiting for Angular version 5, and we’re now at 5.0.0 … Read More

IntroductionLet’s say you have an advanced backend system, for which you wish to develop a modern Angular frontend, or, perhaps it’s not your backend, but something public like Facebook, and you want to develop a site using some of its exposed APIs. Of course, you want to do … Read More