In a previous post I talked about how to use Observable.throw to simulate an Observable error in a unit test. However, in RxJS 6, the syntax changed a bit. I also talked about this a bit in this post about using of to create Observables on the fly for testing in RxJS 6, but I … [Read more…]
Recently I had created a couple of components to make filtering and sorting a list of objects easier. Essentially I wanted a table where the headers are clickable for sorting and also have a textbox below them for filtering. Now, this isn’t super great, because I’m downloading all of the data to the client side … [Read more…]
Recently I had an Angular component that needed to be manually sized based on the window’s size. Admittedly, this is pretty annoying, but the user experience was so much better than anything I could come up with using straight CSS. It worked fine to get the dimensions of the window and calculate the width and … [Read more…]
In a previous post I talked about testing Observables in your Angular code. This is pretty common, because HttpClient sends back an Observable<T> – so if you want to spyOn that function, you’ll need to figure out how to return an Observable. I’ve been bouncing around a couple of projects/repos recently, and it turns out … [Read more…]
When you write code against an Observable, you subscribe to the result. In the subscribe method you provide the callbacks to perform when the Observable is called back. That means you can execute different code for success and failure. In the last post I wrote about how to mock up and test Observable<T> in Jasmine … [Read more…]