Alex Inkin

I’m a devoted Angular developer and a musician. I use one thing to help me not to starve while doing another and I love doing both. I work on Taiga UI at Tinkoff and I like sharing my findings.

📍 Russia

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Telegraph with RxJS: the power of reactive systems

Explore interesting RxJS code and Angular directives in this fun exercise of recreating an analogue Morse code telegraph using your favorite tools!

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Tracking user interaction area

Explore one of the most complex pieces of Taiga UI — ActiveZone directive that keeps an eye on what region user is working with. It touches on low-level native DOM events API, advanced RxJS and Dependency Injection, ShadowDOM and more!

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Bindon: lesser known Angular template features

Angular 12 just came out which added a nullish coalescing operator (‘??’) to templates. But what are other features Angular templates have that you might have never heard of? Let’s find out!

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Global objects in Angular

In JavaScript we often use entities, such as window or navigator. Some of these objects have been there forever. But you might have seen DOCUMENT token used in Angular. Let's discuss why it exists and what we can learn from it to make our apps cleaner and more flexible.

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Making HostBinding work with Observables

We cannot use HostBinding with Observable data — it requires a plain value. This is a pretty sought-after feature. Let’s see how we can implement it while we wait for official support.

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Demystifying Taiga UI root component: portals pattern in Angular

Just before new year we announced our new Angular UI kit library Taiga UI. If you go through Getting started steps, you will see that you need to wrap your app with the tui-root component. Let's see what it does and explore what portals are and how and why we use them.

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Compliant components: Declarative approach in Angular

Angular is declarative in nature. Learn how to make your code adhere to this approach by eliminating internal manually managed states & optimize performance

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Agnostic components in Angular

When you’re building a reusable components library, API is very important. On one hand, you want a tidy, reliable solution, on the other — you need to take care of lots of specific use cases. Learn how to make components that work with everything and look like anything!

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5 tips to boost your Angular skills

Check out these advises backed by concrete examples which can help you improve your developer skills and give you some practical tricks.

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What makes a good Angular library

Let's explore how we can consume diverse Web APIs in Angular application properly by abstracting it into a library built "the Angular way".

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Supercharge event management in your Angular application

Learn how to boost your Angular application speed by selectively reacting to performance sensitive events. To do that we'll implement a few event plugins and simplify them with decorators.

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Writing custom virtual scroll strategy in Angular apps

Learn how you can handle dynamic items size for Angular CDK virtual scroll by providing your own VirtualScrollStrategy.

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Optimizing Events handling in Angular

Let's explore how to implement our own Event Manager Plugin to optimize event handling. Then I'll show how to use it to automatically prevent default action and event propagation.