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I’m an independent IT consultant and entrepreneur in the Internet and software business. I’m interested in design, enterprise applications, web apps and SaaS products. I design and develop business solutions and applications. I help companies in terms of software quality and knowledge transfer, e.g. with Angular and Spring Boot.

Tarun Sharma on the Angular @ViewChildren, @ViewChild, @ContentChildren and @ContentChild Decorators

Some time ago, software developer Tarun Sharma wrote an interesting article explaining the Angular @ViewChildren, @ViewChild, @ContentChildren and @ContentChild decorators and their respective use cases. The article is still relevant and a nice overview of the several ways of accessing different types of child components in Angular applications. Read more

Ashnita Bali & Marcin Ryzycki @ AngularConnect 2018: The differences between ElementRef, TemplateRef, ViewContainerRef

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Filipe Silva @ AngularConnect 2018: The CLI Roadmap

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Manfred Steyer @ AngularConnect 2018: Architectures for huge Angular based enterprise applications

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Michael Hladky @ AngularConnect 2018: RxJS schedulers in depth

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Stefan Baumgartner & Katrin Freihofner @ AngularConnect 2018: Automating UI development

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State of JavaScript Survey: 2018 Edition – Criticism from an Angular Perspective

Recently, the results of the 2018 edition of the State of JavaScript survey have been published. As usual, the report comes with handy categories such as front-end, data layer, testing or mobile. While I very much support the idea of creating a yearly survey of the JavaScript landscape and this survey in particular, which I have been supporting since its inception, there's a major issue with this year's edition: In contrast to its previous editions the survey results lump together (or at least the ... Read more

JSON Schema to TypeScript declarations: Keeping Client and Server Models in Sync with Spring Data REST and Typescript

With web applications a separation between client and server is commonplace nowadays: While the server (also often called back-end) deals with the underlying model, data storage and the predominant part of the business logic, the user interface and user-facing behaviour in general is realised with JavaScript, HTML and CSS on the client (also referred to as front-end), i.e. the user's browser. Frequently, frameworks such as Angular are used in order to facilitate development and make code easier to read and generally more ... Read more

Analysing the Complexity of Angular Apps

Analysing an existing application if you join a project. Assessing the quality and maintainability of an application. Identifying soft spots in an application which could benefit the most from refactoring. There are numerous reasons for wanting to size up the complexity of an application. In addition to general and language-specific tools provided by IDEs and applications such as SonarLint / SonarQube it can be useful to not only take framework specifics into account but to actually make use of them to get a better ... Read more
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