Maina Wycliffe Web Dev Digest - Issue #4

It’s finally here. In Angular v12 (next), there is a new functionality we’re all been waiting for — passing metadata to HTTP interceptors. No more dirty hacks, such as using an HTTP header to pass custom data that our interceptor needs.

File this under stuff you don’t need to know just yet, but I think the :has CSS selector is going to have a big impact on how we write CSS in the future.

Handling the loading state of an async request can be a tedious task. The typical process is to create a loading flag on the component and toggle it based on the request status. For example: And this is only the update operation use case.

One of the hardest constraints we’ve had to deal with as we’ve improved Tailwind CSS over the years is the generated file size in development.

For years, my pain has been not being able to create a somewhat natural-looking pattern in CSS. I mean, sometimes all I need is a wood texture.

Have you ever wondered how Angular knows that it has to update bindings in templates? In a nutshell, the tailored version of the zone.js library (NgZone) takes care of notifying Angular when to perform the change detection process.

In this episode, we are going to discuss Angular Animation with William Juan. We will walk through, the APIs available to create the animation and how it wor…

In this article, I will go over what microfrontends are, why they are useful, and what frameworks exist to make implementing them easier. I’ll also share my experiences creating a project by myself using React and Piral: two technologies I had previously never touched.