Angular 6 was released only a few hours ago and I was eager to start working with it. As I was working through some of the many features, I found that the test runner exits after a single test run despite the settings explicitly setting defaults (autoWatch: true, singleRun: false). I have already logged this issue with the CLI team on Github but wanted to share my … [Read more...] about SOLVED: Angular 6 CLI Karma Stuck in Single Run | Karma Stops Running
How to Manually Install Java 8 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
I recently upgraded to the latest LTS version on my dev machine and needed to install Java. I couldn't remember exactly what I did last time but knew that I needed to download the tarball from Oracle, save the extracted files somewhere, add the runtime (java), SDK compiler (javac) and webstart (javaws) executables to the ubuntu alternatives list and add a JAVA_HOME refererence … [Read more...] about How to Manually Install Java 8 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Remove VirtualBox from Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial
I recently had to make some updates to my VirtualBox and Vagrant installations and decided to completely uninstall VirtualBox to reinstall the newest version to start fresh. I am creating this post as a future reference (mostly for the home folder info) but also to share. Step 1: Completely Remove All VirtualBox Packages and Folders from Ubuntu If you are interested in … [Read more...] about Remove VirtualBox from Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial
Clear all Node Modules Folders Recursively Mac/Linux
If you do any kind of front end development or front end development training, you have probably accumulated a bunch of projects with aging/stale "node_modules" directories. Are you going to take time to open every single old project you have to nuke the node_modules directory? Nobody has time for that. I wanted to migrate a bunch of old code to an archive drive and because of … [Read more...] about Clear all Node Modules Folders Recursively Mac/Linux
Webstorm adding spaces between imports and braces | JavaScript and TypeScript
I have been working with Angular 4x and TypeScript in Webstorm a lot lately and have been guilty of the occasional sloppy import statement. If you found this article, you are probably doing the same thing. Because adding spaces between the import and braces is super tedious, I took some time to find a solution. I can't take all of the credit for this. Some awesome people … [Read more...] about Webstorm adding spaces between imports and braces | JavaScript and TypeScript