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When testing a codebase in Angular Ivy, I ran into a bunch of test failures I wasn't seeing before. ExpressionChangedAfterItHasBeenCheckedError s were being thrown around. In debugging these failures, I found that many of them are the results of side-effects in Observables and Observable pipe operations. I happened to describe these earlier in my piece on Observables, Side-effects, and…
Part of why I recommend using RxJS Observable s all the way through in Angular TypeScript code, and only unpacking them at the closest point to where the UI is declared (often using the | async pipe) , is because it makes other transformations on an Observable available and convenient. Two such examples include retry and refresh logic. Two common reasons to reload/refresh data being displayed…
I typically review a fair amount of Angular code at work. One thing I typically encourage is using plain Observable s in an Angular Component, and using AsyncPipe ( foo | async ) from the template html to handle subscription, rather than directly subscribing to an observable in a component TS file. Subscribing in Components Unless you know a subscription you're starting in a component is very…
