Refactor Reactive Form with components in Angular

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Reading Time: 5 minutesIntroduction The simple CSS grid generator has three reactive forms while these forms have material components that behave similarly. In grid form. Grid gap is a number input field and Gap unit is a drop down list. Similarly, Grid Column Gap and Grid Column Unit are number input field and drop down list respectively. We … Read more

Generate Dynamic Reactive Form in Angular

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Reading Time: 5 minutesIntroduction I wrote a small Angular application to learn CSS grid a few years ago. The application has a reactive form with three form groups to input data to generate CSS grid codes. Defining similar form groups is tedious; therefore, I decide to generate dynamic reactive form based on the form group configurations. In this … Read more

Dynamically load components in Angular 13

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Reading Time: 3 minutesIntroduction Dynamically load components has simplified in Angular 13. Angular team deprecated ViewContainerRef in Angular 13 and we can load components to attached view container without it now. Let’s recap how we load components in Angular 12. We inject ComponentFactoryResolver to map component to ComponentFactory. Then, we pass the ComponentFactory to ViewContainerRef to create an … Read more

Split module into single component angular modules (SCAMs)

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Reading Time: 6 minutesIntroduction When Angular application grows, developers start to build new components and add them into modules. When we put every component into a single module, not only the module becomes bloated but also cannot identify related resources (components, pipes, directives, etc) that can bundle together. In order to avoid bloated module in an Angular application, … Read more

Customize template with ngTemplateOutlet and ngTemplate in Angular

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Reading Time: 4 minutesIntroduction When Angular components require to render ngTemplates programmatically, ngif-then-else construct takes care of most of the scenarios. However, ngIf is lack of passing context that ngTemplateOutlet directive supports. If either template depends on inputs or calculated data of component, then we can pass the values to them via template context of ngTemplateOutlet directive. The … Read more

How to perform accessibility testing in Angular and Storybook

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Reading Time: 4 minutesIntroduction Accessibility testing is an important aspect of Angular and Storybook development because applications should be accessible to disabled individuals. For example, people who suffer from color blindness can not see red and green, and developers should render texts in different colors. When developing accessible applications in Angular, we can add aria attributes to HTML … Read more