July 24, 2025
Ever built a "read more" component that just brutally chops off content mid-sentence? We've all been there. Today, I'll show you how to quickly build out a smooth expandable content component in Angular that actually looks professional. We'll start with a basic toggle that does absolutely nothing visual and transform it into something with elegant height transitions and a subtle fade effect. Okay, let's turn this sad excuse for a component into something you'd actually want to show off!
February 20, 2025
In Angular, understanding the difference between "view" and "content" is key to working effectively with components. If you've ever tried querying an element and it didn’t work as expected, it’s likely because you were mixing these two concepts up. In this example, we’ll break down the difference between the two, and I’ll show you how Angular’s signal queries make accessing both simple and reactive.
November 08, 2024
If you’ve been working with Angular for very long, you’re probably pretty familiar with the @ViewChild and @ViewChildren decorators. Well, if you haven’t heard yet, the framework is moving away from these decorators in favor of the new viewChild and viewChildren signal query functions. This means that it’s time for us to make the switch! In this tutorial we’ll take an existing example of both decorators and convert them each to the new respective functions.