This article is written assuming you have a fair understanding of how an Angular Interceptor works and what they do. Caching an Http request for GET calls is highly important as it will avoid making an API service calls unnecessarily. An Interceptor can be used to delegate caching without disturbing your existing Http calls....
Angular Typeahead using switchMap – a use case
There are plenty of options available in Angular world to implement TypeAhead feature for your project, such as; Angular Material Autocomplete (https://material.angular.io/components/autocomplete/examples) NG Bootstrap Typeahead (https://ng-bootstrap.github.io/#/components/typeahead/examples) Prime-Ng (https://www.primefaces.org/primeng/#/autocomplete) Although, there is no need to reinvent the wheel here, still a simple analysis on how a type ahead works in the above libraries will help...
Make sequence of HTTP / API request using mergeMap and forkJoin
Otherwise known as chaining multiple Observables / API. In the real world scenario, we always face a situation where an id of a data depends on previously emitted value. To be precise, let’s assume we need to fetch userId using only by username and sequentially fetch all his/her articles or posts using the userId....
forkJoin vs combineLatest
Learning RxJS is quite challenging and it is undoubtedly the great tool for front-end developers. We cannot grasp entire RxJS operators in one go, but we may encounter some operators for our use cases. One such operators are forkJoin and combineLatest. forkJoin is a special operator from RxJx that let’s you combine / accept...