Building distributable libraries in Angular 5+

It took a while since my last touch of AngularJS and I decided to play around with the latest version of Angular again. Although I have been following the Angular community and I know Angular feels more like a completely new framework rather than a continuation of AngularJS, I encountered some challenges when trying to create a simple distributable (via NPM) library myself. Since there are (almost) no official guidelines how to do it, I decided to write this post and to summarize my challenges and findings. Continue Reading…

React vs. Angular components

As an IT consultant I have the opportunity to experiment with different libraries and frameworks. Every time I should solve a particular (architectural) problem, I start thinking what kind of tools I know and how they could help me in that particular situation. I have had great experience both with Angular and React for building dynamic front-end application. In this series of posts I want to do a simple comparison between them in terms of how they help developers define and use components. Please note that I am not going to draw a conclusion about which of them is better. I really do think that both have their strong sides, so it is a matter of approach (and preference sometimes) which one you would use. Continue Reading…