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Why I Prefer WebStorm Over Visual Studio Code for Web Development

Both are excellent tools, but I’ve come to prefer WebStorm vs. Visual Studio Code for web development. Read on to find out why.

Project & Team Management

3 Ways to Help Onboard New Developers to a Project

New team members face a firehose of information. Here's how to onboard new developers to a software project and make it less painful.

Angular

How to Unit Test Angular’s Standalone Components

Angular 14 added a long-awaited feature: standalone components. However, to unit test these components, we need to make some changes.

Angular

Here Are the Best New Features in Angular 16

I've used Angular on many development projects. Now, Angular 16 is here! Check out some of these great new features.

Angular

Stop Using console.log in Your Angular Applications and Do This Instead

Developers sometimes try `console.log` to debug their Angular applications. Let's use breakpoints and debug mode in JetBrains Webstorm.

Angular

Automatically Unsubscribe from RXJS Observables in Angular Components

If you prefer to be diligent, I'll introduce you to a way to make unsubscribing from observables in your components clean and quick.

Angular

Unit Testing Routing Events in Angular

Here's a clean and easy way to test routing events using tools already provided by the Angular library, with no third-party libraries needed.

Developer Tools

3 Great Features in JetBrains Rider You May Have Missed

The ability to use a conditional breakpoint is just one of the great features in JetBrains Rider that may not be on a new user's radar.

Angular

How to Build Web Components in Angular

Learn how to build web components in Angular, then export a web component from an Angular project for use in a non-Angular project.

Angular

Using Jest for Testing in an Angular Project

In this post, we will go over how to quickly replace Karma and Jasmine, the default test runner and assertion framework in a new Angular project, with Jest.

Exploratory Testing

Set Team Standards for Unit Test Code Coverage in JetBrains Rider

While code coverage is not a perfect indicator of a healthy test suite, JetBrains Rider can help identify areas of potential risk in your solution.

Platforms & Languages

How to Use Generics with Type Constraints to Handle Collections in C#

Recently, I wanted to use a method for two different concrete classes that shared an interface. The solution? Using a generic method with type constraints.

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