6 posts tagged with "angular"

Angular standalone components! This is a feature that I've been wanting for a while. After reading the RFC last year, it's great to see this feature come to fruition in Angular 14. It's a huge improvement to developer experience because we no longer need NgModule which reduces a lot of boilerplate, and in turn eliminates common errors that occur like forgetting to declare components.

In a previous post, I showed how to integrate Contentful into an Angular project using their REST API. Now that Contentful's GraphQL API is available in the community edition, it should be the preferred way to build your front-end and I'll show you why. This is an example of how to use Contentful to store blog posts, and create a front-end using Angular that will access the data using the GraphQL API.

I'm starting to write end-to-end tests for Angular Universal apps that are a front-end for a headless CMS. My goals are to test the basic functionalities of server-side rendering (SSR), run accessibility tests, and check if any errors are logged to the browser's console. I've seen many questions about how to test Angular Universal apps, so I wanted to share my setup.

After deploying an Angular SSR app, you might come to notice it takes a few seconds to load the initial page. The time it takes for the Universal engine to render the view is one of many factors that contribute to this delay. Let's see how caching the rendered HTML can improve load times for subsequent requests.

A sitemap is a file that provides search engines data about the pages of your site. If you're using a content management system (CMS), your sitemap needs to be kept up to date as you add new content/pages. In this post, we'll look at how we can create a dynamic sitemap using Angular Universal and Contentful. However, this approach could be applied to any Node.js project. The sitemap will be dynamic because it will be generated from content stored in Contentful.

Contentful is a headless content management system (CMS) that allows you to manage content and fetch it using their REST or GraphQL API. This makes up your back-end. How the front-end is built is completely up to you! After using WordPress for the past decade, this approach feels refreshing because I can use modern technology stacks that provide better user experiences. In this post, I'll explain how blog posts can be managed in Contentful, and then implement an Angular front-end to consume and display them.