Ben Nadel

Recent Blog Comments By Ben Nadel

• Most Of Your Modal Windows Should Be Directly Accessible By Route In Angular 7.2.15

  Posted on May 23, 2019 at 11:27 AM

  @Maksym, Very cool!! I am glad that you found this interesting; and, perhaps helpful in identifying some of the benefits of this approach. I also just wrote a follow-up post on modals that don't make sense to link to directly. Not sure there is anything worth reading there -- more just... read more »

• Most Of Your Modal Windows Should Be Directly Accessible By Route In Angular 7.2.15

  Posted on May 23, 2019 at 11:25 AM

  @Charles, I think the non-routable modals stuff is probably more on-point with the kind of stuff you are doing. So, it probably won't actually show you much you aren't already doing :D The only difference might be that I am wrapping my non-routable invocation inside another service -- yo... read more »

• Most Of Your Modal Windows Should Be Directly Accessible By Route In Angular 7.2.15

  Posted on May 23, 2019 at 9:57 AM

  @Peter, That's a great question. Having a "dumb" component can make building some functionality much easier to reason about at the component level. However, having a "dumb" component does not mean that you cannot also have a routable view. You would simply need to wrap... read more »

• Most Of Your Modal Windows Should Be Directly Accessible By Route In Angular 7.2.15

  Posted on May 23, 2019 at 9:24 AM

  @Charles, Right, so the <router-outlet> directive is what renders the Components that you define in the Router routes. Essentially, the routable components get rendered as a sibling to the <router-outlet> directive. So, considering a configuration that looks like this: ... read more »

• Most Of Your Modal Windows Should Be Directly Accessible By Route In Angular 7.2.15

  Posted on May 23, 2019 at 9:20 AM

  @All, As a follow-up post, I've been noodling on confirm() and prompt() style modal windows. At first, I wanted those to all be handled the same way. But, upon deeper reflection, I realized that this was just uniformity for the sake of uniformity . Once I realized this, I backed-up an... read more »

• The Location() Function URL-Encodes The Hash If The URL Also Contains A Query-String In Lucee 5.3.1.102

  Posted on May 17, 2019 at 1:36 PM

  @Tony, Ah, very nice. I tried searching for an existing ticket and couldn't find anything. I suppose just searching in the wrong place or for the wrong thing. Looking at that ticket, though, I wonder what the spec says about the Fragment. I mean, I can clearly enter non-encoded characters ... read more »

• Quick Reference For NgModel Values And Template-Driven Forms In Angular 7.2.13

  Posted on May 15, 2019 at 8:59 AM

  @Charles, Right, sorry -- I was just thinking out loud about why Angular might not want to use this approach by default.... read more »

• Using Router Events To Detect Back And Forward Browser Navigation In Angular 7.0.4

  Posted on May 15, 2019 at 7:52 AM

  @Akshay, I am not sure I understand what you are saying. In my experience, when I use the Router to navigate, the History is kept in tact, unless I explicitly tell it to replace the replaceUrl property to overwrite the current history item: https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3614-using-re... read more »

• Using Router Events To Detect Back And Forward Browser Navigation In Angular 7.0.4

  Posted on May 15, 2019 at 7:49 AM

  @Maurer, Glad you found it interesting :D... read more »

• Effective Monitoring And Alerting By Slawek Ligus

  Posted on May 15, 2019 at 7:47 AM

  @Brian, I think I've heard of that book, but have not read it. Since I'm not on the DevOps team, I tend to read "just enough" to not be worthless at this stuff :D But, I have to admit this is still stuff I struggle with a lot. I'm - unfortunately - still in a state where I manua... read more »

• Using The OWASP AntiSamy 1.5.7 Project With ColdFusion 10 To Sanitize HTML Input And Help Prevent XSS Attacks

  Posted on May 15, 2019 at 7:43 AM

  @Vikram, Oh, very interesting, I did not know that newer versions of ColdFusion came with some of this functionality out-of-the-box. I'm still stuck on an older version of CF, so I am usually slow to see the new features. Hopefully I can upgrade sooner than later.... read more »

• Using Position Absolute Inside A Scrolling Overflow Container

  Posted on May 15, 2019 at 7:40 AM

  @Daniel, Woot woot, glad to help :D... read more »

• Translating Viewport Coordinates Into Element-Local Coordinates Using Element.getBoundingClientRect()

  Posted on May 15, 2019 at 7:36 AM

  @Bhavesh, I don't have much experience with scaling via CSS. Are you suggesting that the .getBoundingClientRect() method doesn't take transform into account when performing the calculation? If so, that would be surprising to me. I would assume that this approach should "just work&... read more »

• Quick Reference For NgModel Values And Template-Driven Forms In Angular 7.2.13

  Posted on May 15, 2019 at 7:32 AM

  @Charles, I keep going back over this issue in my head and I think, ultimately, what keeps tripping me up is the fact that if multiple checkboxes with same name were stored in an Array, then Angular would have to check to see if a reference existed within an Array on each change digest. It ... read more »

• Uploading Files With HttpClient In Angular 7.2.11

  Posted on May 15, 2019 at 7:20 AM

  @Robert, Theoretically, Yes. After all, Angular exposes all the Classes. All you would have to do is import them and then instantiate them yourself. Which means that you have to do - manually - what the Dependency Injection is normally doing for you automatically. I'm not saying it's easy,... read more »

• Performing A SublimeText-Inspired Fuzzy Search For String Matching In Angular 7.2.15

  Posted on May 15, 2019 at 7:11 AM

  @Charles, Fuzzy searching against a database gets a bit more complicated. As you can see in my approach, it's "brute force". Meaning, I'm manually looping over all the potential values and evaluating each one of them in turn. You definitely don't want to be pulling your entire ... read more »

• Prevent Routing To Secondary View If Page Refresh In Angular 5.0.0

  Posted on May 15, 2019 at 6:14 AM

  @Thiru, I just upgraded my demo from Angular 5 to Angular 7.2.15: https://bennadel.github.io/JavaScript-Demos/demos/prevent-secondary-view-on-refresh-angular7/ ... and it works perfectly well on my end -- no looping. Even in Angular 7, the .router.navigated Boolean comes back as fa... read more »

• Using replaceUrl To Persist Search Filters In The URL Without Messing Up The Browser History In Angular 7.2.14

  Posted on May 15, 2019 at 6:13 AM

  @Eric, I am happy to hear that you are finding these posts interesting. With regard to the "form" vs. "results" page, when your workflow is spread over two "views", then in that case, I would probably just expose the "parameters" on the results page.... read more »

• Lessons I Wish I Had Learned Much Earlier In My Web Development Career

  Posted on May 10, 2019 at 8:28 AM

  @Dan, Thinking about code with a "delete first" mentality has been really really helpful for me. It seems to help me see the separation of concerns more clearly. Glad you found this interesting!... read more »

• Prevent Routing To Secondary View If Page Refresh In Angular 5.0.0

  Posted on May 10, 2019 at 8:26 AM

  @Thiru, Hmm, I will have to test this out. I don't think I've tried this since Angular 5.... read more »