Posts within the JavaScript category

Testing your Node.js application with AVA
In this tutorial I'll use AVA together with Sinon.js to test my Node.js application and summarize the good and the bad parts that come with it.

Progressive Web Apps with Angular CLI
One of the buzzwords of Google nowadays is Progressive Web Apps or shortly PWA's. In this tutorial we'll learn what progressive webapps exactly are. Additionally we'll see how we can use them and how we can integrate it with Angular and Angular CLI.

Using Apollo GraphQL with Vue
GraphQL is a new way to write your APIs, and with Apollo you can easily integrate it within your Vue.js applications. In this tutorial I'll show you how you can make queries and mutations within your Vue components.

Getting started with Vue and AT UI
Vue is a progressive web framework, similar to Angular, React and others. In this tutorial I'll set up a simple Vue.js application using Vue CLI and AT UI. I'll also explore some basic concepts suchs as properties, certain directives, computed properties and so on.

Using custom scalar types with GraphQL and Apollo
GraphQL comes with several types out-of-the-box, but in many cases you probably want to extend those with your own scalar types. In this tutorial we'll create our own ISO timestamp based scalar type with Node.js, GraphQL and Apollo.

Writing a GraphQL API with Node.js, Express and Apollo
GraphQL nowadays is often seen as an alternative to REST, each with its own benefits. With Apollo, we can consume GraphQL APIs, but additionally to that, we can create GraphQL API's as well by using Node.js and Express. In this tutorial I'll explore the possibilities.

Using Apollo GraphQL with Angular
Forget REST and learn GraphQL! In this tutorial I'll be using Apollo as my GraphQL client library together with Angular to create even more powerful applications.

Handling authentication and authorization with Angular
In this tutorial I'll use route guards, Http interceptors and directives to improve handling authentication and authorization in an Angular application using ngrx.

Working with @ngrx/store
A component-based architecture brings it own challenges, such as state management. In this tutorial I'll demonstrate how the ngrx library can solve this problem by defining actions and reducers.

Getting started with Angular CLI and Project Clarity
Project Clarity is a neat UI library with a component-set that can be used with Angular. In this tutorial, I'll set up Project Clarity with Angular CLI.