Ben Nadel

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• ColdFusion 2016 Skips Over Undefined Elements With For-In Array Loop

  Posted on Nov 16, 2018 at 1:08 PM

  @Adam, Oh snap, I didn't even realize that the Tag version worked differently! Thank you for clarifying on that. I am mostly script these days. And, frankly, the use of undefined array elements almost never comes up for me (I just happened to be pulling something back from Java).... read more »

• Async Pipe "as" Syntax Is Just The $implicit View Context Property In Angular 7.0.3

  Posted on Nov 15, 2018 at 8:43 AM

  @All, After digging deeper into * template desugaring, I realized that my assumptions here were not always correct : https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3529-understanding-the-limitations-of-template-syntax-desugaring-in-angular-7-0-4.htm Above, I states that the as syntax is a short-han... read more »

• Using Presentation Components In Order To Hide Async Pipe Complexity In Angular 7.0.3

  Posted on Nov 14, 2018 at 11:06 AM

  @Charles, So, the async keywords is pretty cool. It magically transforms the function into one that returns a Promise that implicitly resolves to the value returned by the function. You can think of this: async function foo() { return( "bar" ); } ... as being roughly eq... read more »

• Experimenting With The Runtime Abstraction For State Management In Angular 7.0.3

  Posted on Nov 14, 2018 at 9:07 AM

  @All, One thing that I really didn't like about this approach was the jankiness of the AsyncPipe syntax in the template. But, taking inspiration from something Jason Awbrey said on Twitter, I wanted to revisit this approach using Smart and Presentation components: https://www.b... read more »

• Wrapping The Zendesk Web Widget In A Promise-Based Zendesk Service In Angular 2.4.9

  Posted on Nov 12, 2018 at 10:51 AM

  @Markus, Ah, interesting. I haven't worked with the widget in a while, so I'll take your word for it :) Good luck, now that you have an eye for the right direction.... read more »

• Experimenting With The Runtime Abstraction For State Management In Angular 7.0.3

  Posted on Nov 12, 2018 at 10:50 AM

  @Chinna, That's a strange error. It looks like it can't can resolve dependency-injection arguments for SimpleStore . However, this class -- at least in my example -- is not using dependency-injection - it's being instantiated directly within the Runtime abstraction. As such, I am not sure... read more »

• Using CSS Custom Properties To Theme Components In Angular 6.1.3

  Posted on Nov 11, 2018 at 11:01 AM

  @Vladimir, I am sorry, I am not entirely sure what you are asking. CSS Custom Properties cascade like other CSS properties. So, if you are trying to theme an entire site, you have to define the variables high enough up in the DOM so that they can cascade down to the rest of the application.... read more »

• Playing With Recursive Components In Angular 6.1.10

  Posted on Nov 11, 2018 at 10:55 AM

  @Zlati, I agree with a lot of the style-guide stuff. But, I also disagree with some of it (like this stuff). The underlying theme in the style-guide is just "be consistent". As long as you find something you are comfortable with and stick to it, I think that's the most important ... read more »

• jQuery's append() Methods Intercept Script Tag Insertion And Circumvent Load Handlers

  Posted on Nov 11, 2018 at 10:53 AM

  @Bashu, Heck yeah -- it's all about team work :D Glad this helped you out.... read more »

• jQuery's append() Methods Intercept Script Tag Insertion And Circumvent Load Handlers

  Posted on Nov 11, 2018 at 10:52 AM

  @Tom, Super glad this was able to help!... read more »

• Searching For The Wrong Type Of Simplicity Can Lead To An Explosion Of Complexity

  Posted on Nov 11, 2018 at 10:50 AM

  @Lars, Ha ha, yes, 100% :D... read more »

• JavaScript Demos Using Webpack 4 With Angular 6.1.7 And Ahead Of Time (AoT) Compiling

  Posted on Nov 11, 2018 at 10:47 AM

  @Nguyen, Very cool! Super excited to be able to provide some inspiration. I hope that it is going well. The Webpack stuff -- all of it -- has been challenging for me. So, once I get something working, I tend to not touch it for a while. Hopefully you are getting there!... read more »

• Creating A Jump-To-Anchor Fragment Polyfill In Angular 5.2.0

  Posted on Nov 11, 2018 at 10:44 AM

  @Iris, Hmm, that's an odd error. Since this blog post, Angular has had new releases that include similar types of behavior (I believe, maybe). It's possible that something is conflicting. I know that they now have a "Retain Scroll" kind of behavior. It's possible that it is confl... read more »

• Creating A Dynamic Favicon Service In Angular 5.2.4

  Posted on Nov 11, 2018 at 10:40 AM

  @Robin, Awesome, super glad you found this helpful :D... read more »

• Creating A Dynamic Favicon Service In Angular 5.2.4

  Posted on Nov 11, 2018 at 10:40 AM

  @Eugene, Hmm, I'm not sure why that would be happening. Did you check the network activity in the dev-tools to make sure the file is really being located? Also, perhaps the file type does not match the extension and the browser isn't rendering it property? I'm just guessing -- I've not see... read more »

• Wrapping The Zendesk Web Widget In A Promise-Based Zendesk Service In Angular 2.4.9

  Posted on Nov 11, 2018 at 10:38 AM

  @Markus, I haven't used that method before; but, I think you would just want to keep with the same pattern - add a .updateSettings( data ) method that turns around and calls this.promisify() under the hood. Something like (just shooting from the hip here): public updateSettings( dat... read more »

• Experimenting With The Runtime Abstraction For State Management In Angular 7.0.3

  Posted on Nov 11, 2018 at 10:30 AM

  @Charles, No problem -- I had a post earlier that just looked at the SimpleStore class: https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3522-creating-a-simple-setstate-store-using-an-rxjs-behaviorsubject-in-angular-6-1-10.htm ... which is basically just a thin wrapper around the RxJS BehaviorSubject . ... read more »

• Creating A Simple setState() Store Using An RxJS BehaviorSubject In Angular 6.1.10

  Posted on Nov 9, 2018 at 8:50 AM

  @All, I've put together my first experiment to help me flesh out some ideas around storage: https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3526-experimenting-with-the-runtime-abstraction-for-state-management-in-angular-7-0-3.htm .... this uses what I'm calling the Runtime Abstraction , which encapsul... read more »

• Considering State Management Boundaries And The Separation Of Concerns

  Posted on Nov 9, 2018 at 8:49 AM

  @All, All theory and no practice makes Jack a dull boy :) As such, I wanted to sit down and start to flesh out some actual code that adheres to the things I want to see in the Runtime Abstraction . I created a "Santa's list" demo: https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3526-experimen... read more »

• Drawing Parallels Between a Flux-Style State Management Architecture (Like Redux) And An Event-Driven Microservices Architecture

  Posted on Nov 6, 2018 at 9:42 AM

  @All, I'm taking this line of thinking and starting to codify it a bit more: https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3525-considering-state-management-boundaries-and-the-separation-of-concerns.htm This actually moves my mental model even more in the direction of a microservie-esque type of struct... read more »