ES6 Destructuring Recipes
ES6 Destructuring is awesome, but it’s not always obvious how you can use it to its most awesome extent. In this post, I’ll show you just some of the ways you can make maximum use of destructuring [...]
Advanced ES6 Destructuring Techniques
Going even deeper into ES6 destructuring now, this post shows how to get maximum awesomeness by using destructuing on deeply nested objects, functions, generators, and even regExes! Destructuring Arrays [...]
The Most In-Depth Yet Understandable ES6 Destructuring Tutorial (complete with Assembled Avengers)
Destructuring is a new ES6 technique for extracting data from JavaScript objects and arrays using a much tighter, terser, and clearer syntax than that provided by ES5. The result is not just the saving [...]
How to mock the Date to keep date-based unit tests predictable
When unit testing functions that use the Date.now() function, you’ll need to lock down the value it returns – otherwise, your unit tests will only ever run successfully on the day (or even [...]
How to fix the “Controller ‘ngModel’ required by directive” error
The ‘controller ngModel required by directive’ error can be confusing when you first come across it, particularly if you get it when running your unit tests. But it’s a simple fix, and [...]
Introducing Untangled Angular Seed – a best practice Angular Seed app that gets out of your way
Larger Angular apps can be difficult to setup due to the many moving parts involved. Various Angular seed apps exist that provide some of the boilerplate code involved, to help you develop your app more [...]
Angular Connect Round-Up
The Angular Connect conference is almost at an end, so I thought I’d write up some of the great things I’ve learned over the past two days. It’s been an awesome conference. Different [...]
What are your Angular Pain Points?
Sometimes learning’s hard because what you’re learning is hard. Other times, it’s because the way in which you’re taught is bad. To help ensure this site gives you exactly the resources [...]
How to unit-test a directive with templateURL
It’s best practice to place the HTML of a directive’s partial within its own file, and reference it in the directive’s definition object via the templateUrl property. However, this causes [...]
Understanding AngularJS Promises 2: Promise callbacks or promise.catch()?
AngularJS’s promises library ($q) provides two different patterns for handling success and failure: the callback pattern and the promise chain pattern (promise.then().catch()). In this article, we’ll [...]
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