Angular Tips & Tricks
You have probably heard many times that it’s a good practice to unsubscribe from an Observable after you subscribe to it in your Angular application. But is it always the case? Do you really need to do it?
What happens if two different components call the same service which makes an HTTP call to an API? You will have two duplicated calls! Is it possible to share the first response with all subscribers to prevent duplicate HTTP requests? Yes, it is! Let’s see how.
When testing a component with service dependencies, the best practice is mocking them, in order to test the component in an isolated environment. In fact, our purpose is testing the component, not the services, that can be trouble, especially if they try to interact with a server.In this article we will see the two methods … Continue reading Testing an Angular Component with Mock Services
RxJS Observables, compared to the old Promises in Angular 1, seem to be more complicated to understand, but they are far more flexible. Let’s see how we can combine and chain them, in order to merge multiple Http streams of data and get what we need.
