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For many, Reactive programming seems like a conceptually elegant approach that falls apart the moment you try to do any serious programming. When adding essential error handling, refreshable state, etc. into an application, many folks see their codebases move further from the promise of clean, elegant reactive transforms. It doesn't have to be this way. While I've argued before for cleaner display…
Sometimes, the best way to learn a new concept is to try to implement it. With my journey with reactive programming, my attempts at implementing Observables were key to to my ability to intuit how to best use them. In this post, we'll be trying various strategies of implementing an Observable and see if we can make get to working solution. I'll be using TypeScript and working to implement…
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…
My previous articles on using AsyncPipe and data refresh patterns in Angular hint at some common anti-patterns dealing with Observables. If there’s any common thread in my advice, it is: delay unpacking an Observable into its scalar types when performing logic you can rewrite as side-effect-free, leaving code with side-effects for subscription callbacks and other downstream logic. My two…
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…
