My yesterday's tweet received a lot of comments about JSX's superiority over #Angular's template syntax (weird, the tweet wasn't about that at all)

Did you know you can automatically migrate your old #Angular apps to use the `inject` function instead of constructor DI? In my opinion, you should do it ASAP 😅

Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates today! 🎄 Soon the year will end, and I think maybe I can do a short festive stream on the 30th or 31st and wrap up the year in #Angular. Would you watch? 😁

When writing a for loop in an #Angular template, we might have scenarios where we can't track by any identifier (like id) What would be better, using the items themselves or the index to track iterations?

Are you using Zod (or a similar library like valibot/arktype) with your #Angular projects? I'm genuinely curious what tangible benefits it provides (not a criticism!)

#NgRx - my favorite #Angular package just turned 10 years (yeah I can't believe it too 😁 ) What's your favorite feature?

Just started exploring Google's Agent Development Kit, and it is so pleasantly easy and useful! I want to try some things out. What would be an interesting thing to automate for learning purposes?

Such a nice touch from #Angular signal forms! No need to check the console for warnings, your IDE will inform you not to bind to `disabled` when using a signal form control

Would you like me to live-code with #NgRx Signal Store (+ event plugin!) during a future #Angular Space TV livestream? What do you think I should explore?

Delivered a talk about RAG and different optimization techniques with #Gemini during #DevFest Yerevan 2025 I'm lucky I learned my linear algebra and calculus well enough back in university so that I can bring some machine learning into AI engineering 😁

One of the big pains with reactive forms has been the scenario when we needed to make a field required based on the value of another field With # Angular signal forms, everything is reactive, so everything is easy 😉

We did a great job at #DevFest Yerevan 2025 🎉 Loved to see everyone talk about so many amazing and important topics!

#DevFest Yerevan 2025 just started!

Did you have time to try out #Angular signal forms? What did you find most challenging? I want to write a new article about it, gathering some information 😁

Curious about building with AI and RAG systems? I'm happy to be back at #DevFest Yerevan 2025 to speak about exactly this: how to optimize your RAG applications both in terms of costs and performance using different techniques, focusing particularly on #Gemini and Gemini embeddings!

Did you miss this week's stream? We talked about Signals/RxJS, developed some examples, and explored a couple of useful articles Curious whether RxJS will replace signals, want to know when to use which, or just trying to prepare for a migration? Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbSt...

I've been thinking, since in Armenia we celebrate Christmas on January 6th instead of December 25th, and the 25th is a Wednesday, why not do one final livestream and sum up the year for Angular? 😁 Would you watch it?

During the latest livestream, we also explored two interesting articles touching on the topic of RxJS vs Signals. Let's talk about them, as you should definitely check them out to get a better grasp of how everything works!

Here's another example from yesterday's livestream You do not need to manually `reload` a signal when the user clicks "next page". Instead, you should think of your resource as dependent on the `page` state and increment the page number when the user clicks. Super easy, fully declarative:

We did a lot of examples with Signals + RxJS on yesterday's livestream, I'm gonna post them all 😁 Here's an example of a resettable timer with `linkedSignal` and an RxJS `interval` Observable:

Just finished the episode! And again I did a long one... But we discussed a lot!

Join me in 30 minutes on today's livestream so we can find answers to all Dignals vs RxJS questions together!

Don't forget to tune in today! We are going to answer the most crucial question: "When do we use signals and when do we use RxJS?" (and many more) Tonight, at 4 PM UTC

Do you know how to stop an `rxResource` from executing immediately so that we can trigger it later manually?

What will this code do? And, more importantly, why?

Here is the link to watch tomorrow's livestream! Join us to discuss everything you need to know about RxJS + Signals www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbSt...

I love the excitement that @michaelsmalldev.bsky.social brings to our streams 😁

I'm back 😁 This week, let's talk about RxJS and answer some burning questions I keep seeing Angular devs ask - Is RxJS no longer needed? - Should we replace Observables with Signals? - If we use both, how do we understand when to reach out for what? (1/2)

No stream today! A very busy week at hand 😁 Promise to be back next week!

Got featured on local news (for a good reason 😁 ) tech.news.am/eng/news/642...

Can you guess which of our livestreams was watched by the most people? 😁

For me, the biggest improvement that Signal Forms brings is how easy it is now to create custom control components No more `ControlValueAccessor` and boilerplate, simply drop some inputs/model signal for value/disabled state/etc, and you're done! Here's a reusable Rating component example:

Custom validation is super easy with signal forms, even when the logic is a bit complex; no need to define a separate function, just use `validate` inline. Here's an example of multiple string inputs (array), none of which can be empty:

Wow, already at least 472 people watched the Zoneless livestream I feel zoneless is going to continue being a big topic, especially with how it makes Angular simpler again (like the new control flow and standalone) Watch it here if you missed it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfyu...

It's a slow day, might post signal form examples 😁

I hope I will continue posting here 😁

During yesterday's livestream, we discovered that setting the change detection strategy to `OnPush` on the root component (AppComponent) actually does something Change detection now runs once each time (as opposed to twice). I'm unsure what that means or why this happens. Anyone care to weigh in?

So, are we sure we know the difference between the two? 😁

Maybe I should start by posting my latest livestream We explored so much about Zoneless Angular! www.youtube.com/live/hfyuzgP...

Might just start posting here too

Any good resources on steps to upgrade to application builder in v17 without upgrading to v18/v19?

Quick question: do you think about a class getter as "derived state"?

Did you know you can create #Angular template-driven form groups? Defining forms is easy even without reactive if you know the details. You can use `ngModelGroup` to achieve the same result:

Another just-for-fun question So, the #RxJS `tap` operator is specifically designed to perform side-effects However, its implementation is just taking an Observable and returning a new one with the side-effect slapped on it So, is `tap` itself a pure function or not? 😁

What concepts from reactive programming do you find the most challenging to explain to beginners? My bet is on "declarative programming"

#NgRx ESLint ruleset has a rule that prohibits mapping Observables from the store to be mapped in component Instead, it encourages the use of new, derived selectors and a direct selection of the state I believe we should not create computed properties from store signals What do you think?

My last article seems to be doing quite some rounds... If you have missed something from Angular v19, check the article out - there are a lot of hidden gems there! www.angularspace.com/angular-v19-...

When we make HTTP calls in #Angular, sometimes we need to map the response to something else With `rxResource`, would you prefer to do it with an #RxJS operator, or with a computed/linked signal? I prefer doing it with RxJS, but I want to hear opinions

I ran into an #Angular article today, and I think it is entirely AI-generated The amount of just plain wrong stuff in it is too astounding to write it off as just a mistake Honestly, this makes me mad medium.com/@sehban.alam...

Important to remember: while `Resource` implements some methods from `WritableSignal` (set, update), it is not itself a signal. If you want to bind a resource to `ngModel` in your #Angular component template, use its `value` signal, not the resource itself: