This article describes how a typical browser file download can be triggered using the Angular HttpClient. Typically you can simply introduce a link to the endpoint of the file download into the page and this will work just fine. However, if you… more

In this article I will describe how to add a Http Authentication Bearer token to each request done from Angular via HttpClient by implementing a Angular 5 HttpInterceptor. This way the bearer token has not be added to each request separately while doing… more

When you build frontend interfaces for the web, you often have to provide support for different languages, locales and timezones (generally called internationalization or short i18n in computer science). With Angular2 you can use the module “ng2-translate” to provide browser language detection… more

Some days ago, the new Angular2 RC3 release candidate (and also some days earlies RC2) has been released. Again, some changes were made to the Angular2 structure that everyone needs to update in their Angular2 applications to become compatible to the new version…. more

This article demonstrates how to set up an Angular2 project with Webpack. The setup also supports Typescript, Less, CSS packages like Twitter Bootstrap and Fonts e.g. FontAwesome. It describes how to set up all the different plugins, loaders etc. I needed for… more

In Angular2 you can use “pipes” (in earlier versions called “filters”) to adjust data bindings to given situations. Then name comes from the “pipe symbol” (|) that is also known from Unix/Linux command shells to manipulate data streams. In Angular 2, the… more

In this article I want to show how to use the “Reactive Events” library RxJS to handle asynchronous event processing in AngularJS2. In many Javascripts frameworks asynchronous events are handled by either providing a callback function to be called, or be retrieving… more

This article summarizes a couple of changes I encountered during the migration of angular2 beta 17 to angular2 rc1. Angular2 Packages for RC1 Previously angular2 could be pulled in by npm using the following configuration entry in package.json

Now all packages… more

In my Angular2 application I want to be redirected to the login page whenever I get a 401 response during an Ajax call. Therefore I want to intercept all Ajax calls and check for the response code. In addition to that I… more