In my last article, I explained how our communication with the backend takes place and how we were able to build a very simple caching mechanism thanks to signals. In this blog post, I would now like to demonstrate how we use the signals from our services within the components. Views As mentioned in the previous post, we have, broadly speaking, “Views” and “Actions” for displaying data from the backend. In the Views, primarily only data is presented, and in Actions, this...
After explaining in the last blog post what Angular Signals are and how they are used, I would like to delve into how we at calitime.ch handle Signals to keep our tool TimeRocket soaring through the cosmos in this article. We don’t use HTTPClient! First and foremost, I must start with a circumstance that may not be common for many teams using Angular: We do not use HttpClient (anymore).Normally, HttpClient is the preferred tool in Angular to make HTTP requests to a server. It returns...
What are Signals? On May 3, 2023, Angular 16 was released, introducing the possibility to use Signals. Signals are another way to implement the reactive programming paradigm in Angular. For quite some time, RXJS has been available for this purpose, and it doesn’t seem to be disappearing from the Angular world anytime soon. Generally, the current consensus is that RXJS should be used for more complex problem scenarios since it is more powerful but also harder to grasp. However, for simpler...