I love catchError. It is also the operator that told me a 500 was a success. I moved a data-fetching pipeline over to rxResource, kept my usual .pipe(catchError(...)) safety net, and pointed it at...

Angular ships an official migration that moves your unit tests from Karma to Vitest. So you upgrade to Angular 22, run it, and you are done. Right? Here is what it printed for my project: --- Kar...

Setting up Tailwind in an Angular project used to be a small ritual. Install three packages, hand-write a PostCSS config, guess the right filename, edit the global stylesheet, then find out somethi...

I have typed this.fb.group({ ... }) so many times that my fingers do it before my brain catches up. Saturday night they did it again, for the signup page of a weekend project that currently has exa...

Last week I had a browser open on the wrong monitor and couldn’t remember the shortcut to throw it across. I pressed SUPER + K, got a wall of keybindings, and by the time I found the right line I’d...

Hey everyone, your friendly neighborhood developer is back-and this time with a small horror story that had a happy ending. My PC lost power out of nowhere. When it booted back up, the big NTFS dr...

I love code review. I also love finishing code review. And if you’ve ever stared at a PR thinking “surely I’m missing something obvious”, you already know the real problem: our brains are not great...

Hey everyone, your friendly neighborhood developer is back with another deep dive! Today, we’re going to wrestle with a common performance killer: index fragmentation, specifically when using UNIQU...

Heads up: this guide targets Angular 19. Since Angular 21 the CLI does the setup for you - ng new --style tailwind replaces most of the steps below. If you are starting a new project, read Angular ...

Hey there, fellow Angular nerds! I’ve been knee-deep in Angular projects for quite a while now, and one thing I’ve noticed is that component inputs, while fundamental, often don’t get used to thei...