Month: November 2018

Reactjs (or just "React" as its more commonly called) is one of the biggest competitors to Angular. I'm going to walkthrough what it is, and then follow up with a brief demo at the end. Reactjs came out near 2011 at a time when there were a lot of different Javascript frameworks trying to do … Continue reading Reactjs Walkthrough →

With Angular 2+ you have a lot of flexibility to create applications with many or few connecting pieces. Typically you would create components that either exist on themselves or are pieces of a bigger object. Recently, I created a weather app that basically uses the default app.component as a parent for children components that need … Continue reading Angular Component Interaction →

Recently I developed a web app that retrieves the forecast based on your location.  It uses your latitude and longitude to retrieve weather data using the National Weather Service APIs that are available here Weather API. The National Weather Service APIs are free of charge, and the data that is retrieved is part of what … Continue reading National Weather Service API →

When HTML5 came out one of the coolest features that it offered was the use of location services. This was the point in time when you started to see the little pop up windows on site's asking "is it ok to share your location?". The HTML5 "Geolocation API" as it is more formerly called offers … Continue reading Location Services →

When developing Angular applications, you normally want to include a testing suite as part of your development pipeline. Angular is great because it comes with a test tool called "Karma" right out of the box. Karma makes it easy for you as a developer to build out tests with your application. It also makes it … Continue reading Using Karma Tests with Angular →