Blog Posts with Tag Angular

In my previous post, I described setting up an Angular application for authentication to a Microsoft Account using Microsoft's MSAL library. In this post, I will describe connecting to a Microsoft Graph API utilizing the sign in from the MSAL library. Angular HttpClient Angular has a helper class that can be utilized to make API calls to external services. It is HttpClient. This has a lot of convenience methods to call make HTTP requests and call restful APIs. This is great…

In this post, I'm going to be turning the COVID-19 statistics web application I've been building into a Progressive Web Application (PWA). PWAs are a modern way to provide an app like experience with a web application without having to build a native application or using a wrapper such as cordova to put it in the store. In short the main experience I'm looking for is the ability to install the web app as an application on a phone. Like many of the posts in this series…

After publishing my original application, I decided to add a few graphs to it to show daily test results and a few other trends. This is a short post to describe the changes. Charting in Angular There are several good charting libraries in Angular to use. For this, I decided to use ngx-charts. Mainly since my app was using SVG to render the USA map, I wanted a charting library based on SVG too. A lot of charting libraries will render based on the HTML Canvas element. While…

I've been working with Angular as my primary platform for building web applications for over a year now. I love it. I've typically used Angular Material as my UI component framework. However, there are several other good frameworks out there to build high quality applications. One of these that's always intrigued me has been the Clarity Design. It's an open source framework that's supported by VMware. I finally decided to give it a try for a small web application. The…

In my previous posts, I've introduced my pi-plate project and described how I set up a Raspberry Pi to work as a kiosk. In this post, I will briefly describe the application I built. I put the application I wrote up on Netlify to see, and the source code for the application is on GitHub. A link for the running application is here. The main application utilizes a few different technology stacks to build and deploy. These are: Angular Nginx Docker This blog will focus on the…