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Master Angular 17 (a study guide)

Changes and new features

In this article, I list out the most important changes and new features, also share resources that will teach you how these new Angular features work:

  • New, declarative control flow
  • Deferred loading blocks
  • View Transitions API support
  • Support for passing in @Component.stylesas a string
  • Angular’s animations code is lazy-loadable
  • TypeScript 5.2 support

Additional important changes:

  • The core Signal API is now stable (PR)
  • Signal-based components are not ready yet, they won’t be a part of Angular 17 
  • Node.js v16 support has been removed and the minimum support version is v18.13.0 (PR)
  • We expect that Esbuild will be the default builder and the default dev server will use Vite

www.angularaddicts.com/p/master-angular-17

Apache Solr Search Engine: What you need to know

> Have you ever been in a situation where you have an enterprise app with data that exists in an SQL Database, and the business team asked you for a text search feature? > > If you answered yes, most probably your first trial was to conduct a text-based search using the database query. However, it might work, but the database’s ability to provide relevancy is either non-existent or a bolted-on afterthought, and the relevancy ranking of results coming out of a database won’t be satisfactory. > > Additionally, if we added the performance to the equation when you have large volumes of text data, RDBMS will be quite slow and provide poor user experience. > > andela.com/blog-posts/apache-solr-search-engine-what-you-need-to-know >

Apache Solr Search Engine: What you need to know

Have you ever been in a situation where you have an enterprise app with data that exists in an SQL Database, and the business team asked you for a text search feature?
If you answered yes, most probably your first trial was to conduct a text-based search using the database query. However, it might work, but the database’s ability to provide relevancy is either non-existent or a bolted-on afterthought, and the relevancy ranking of results coming out of a database won’t be satisfactory.
Additionally, if we added the performance to the equation when you have large volumes of text data, RDBMS will be quite slow and provide poor user experience.
andela.com/blog-posts/apache-solr-search-engine-what-you-need-to-know

Auto-decompilation for External .NET Code – in Visual Studio 2022 – 17.7 Now Available

Auto-decompilation for External .NET Code

Visual Studio’s External Source Debugging is now more powerful and effortless with auto-decompilation for external .NET code. When you step into external code, the debugger will now display the point of execution. This feature is particularly useful when analyzing call stacks, as you can double-click any stack frame and the debugger will navigate directly to the code. You can debug the decompiled code and set breakpoints easily.

All the decompiled code is also shown under the External Sources node in Solution Explorer when in debug session, making it easy to browse through the external files if needed. If you wish to disable the automatic decompilation of external code, simply clear the “Automatically decompile to source when needed (managed only)” option under Tools > Options > Debugging.

devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-studio-2022-17-7-now-available/

Basic concepts of CSS grid layout

What is a grid?

A grid is a set of intersecting horizontal and vertical lines defining columns and rows. Elements can be placed onto the grid within these column and row lines. CSS grid layout has the following features:

Fixed and flexible track sizes

You can create a grid with fixed track sizes – using pixels for example. This sets the grid to the specified pixel which fits to the layout you desire. You can also create a grid using flexible sizes with percentages or with the fr unit designed for this purpose.

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_grid_layout/Basic_concepts_of_grid_layout