Whose Form Is It Anyway? Choosing Between Template-Driven and Reactive Forms in Angular
Hook — 06 : 08 a.m., Santo Domingo ↔ Medellín pairing sessionA rain squall hammered my rooftop office in the Dominican Republic when Julián, a junior dev coding from Colombia, pinged me in panic: “Our hotel-booking form drops typed letters on budget phones!” His template was pure template-driven, and every keystroke refreshed half the view […]
Keeping the UI Fresh — Demystifying Angular Change-Detection Strategies for the Modern Developer
Hook — 06 : 04 a.m., Medellín ↔ Ciudad de Panamá code-reviewThe sun hadn’t cleared the Andes when Carla, our newest junior in Panamá, pinged me: “The live price ticker freezes every 30 seconds.” I opened her repo from a Colombian balcony, parrots screeching behind me, and watched dev-tools flame charts glow red on each […]
Beyond ng serve: A Deep Dive into Angular 18 CLI Generators, Builders & Workspaces
Hook — 05 : 40 a.m., Barranquilla ↔ São Paulo hand-offSunrise painted the Caribbean while I reviewed Diego’s pull-request from Brazil. He’d hand-coded a feature module, forgotten to add it to the workspace, and our CI in Panama croaked. “Why not scaffold with an Angular generator?” I asked between sips of café tinto. Minutes later […]
Your First Angular 19 Component: From @Component() Decorator to Browser
Hook — 06 : 15 a.m., Medellín ↔ Mexico City pairing sessionIt was still dark in the Poblado hills when Lucía, a career-switcher in CDMX, screen-shared her first Angular playground. “The template compiles, but nothing shows up,” she panicked while rain hammered my Colombian balcony roof. I spotted the problem: she’d created a class, forgotten […]
Upgrading to Angular 19 Without Losing Your Sanity
Hook — 05 : 52 a.m., Medellín ↔ Mexico City cross-team sprintMy second tinto of the morning was barely cooling when Luis, our junior dev in CDMX, pinged: “The new marketing microsite takes forever after login.” I fired up Lighthouse over hotel Wi-Fi; First Input Delay tanked. Turns out the build still ran Angular 16 […]
From Tap to Trust — Form Validation Best Practices with React Hook Form in React 18
Hook — 06:07 a.m., Santo Domingo ↔ São Paulo video callA rooster crowed outside my Airbnb while Ana, our junior dev in Brazil, shared her screen. “Users keep saying our checkout form forgets their data,” she sighed. Every blur event triggered a full‐component re-render; network hiccups on rural 4 G made inputs feel sticky. We […]
Taming Forms in React 18: Controlled vs. Uncontrolled
Hook — 06 : 00 a.m., Cartagena ↔ São Paulo debugging sprintThe Caribbean breeze was fighting my laptop fan when Renata, our junior dev in Brazil, pinged: “My sign-up form drops keystrokes on slow phones!” I opened her sandbox from a rooftop hostel, parrots squawking nearby. She’d stuffed a dozen useState calls inside a massive […]
Theme Your React 18 App Like a Pro: Dark Mode & Design Systems from the Tropics
Hook — 05 : 47 a.m., Santa Teresa (Costa Rica) ↔ Medellín pair-programmingHowler monkeys were louder than my Slack pings when Sofía pushed her “quick” dark-mode PR. I reviewed it barefoot on the balcony—sunrise surf pending. The toggle worked, but every component flashed white before the theme kicked in. “We need system-level theming, not inline […]
Style Wars in React 18: CSS Modules, Styled-Components & Tailwind—Which Fits Your Flow?
Hook — 06 : 10 a.m., Playa del Carmen ↔ São Paulo hand-offThe Caribbean sunrise bounced off my laptop while I reviewed Felipe’s pull request from Brazil. Our React 18 onboarding wizard looked gorgeous—until a late-night merge mixed global .btn styles with a Tailwind class; the “Next” button turned neon pink everywhere. Slack exploded: “Styles […]
Pre-Render or Re-Generate? Understanding Static Site Generation vs. Incremental Static Regeneration in React 18
Hook — 05 : 28 a.m., Lisbon ↔ Lagos bug huntTariq’s WhatsApp message hit before sunrise: “Our product docs take 45 seconds to update after a new release.” He was on hotel Wi-Fi in Lagos; I was three hours ahead, cradling espresso on a tiled balcony. Their Next.js site used classic Static Site Generation—great for […]