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How to handle folder uploads in Angular 2+

January 3, 2018 Ben Jacobson 5 Comments

At Lucidpress, we recently decided to revamp our image manager experience by creating a completely new image manager written in Angular 2 and Typescript. One of the key new features we wanted to add was bulk image upload, which is the ability to upload a folder with all of its…

5 Angular directives you can use in your project

December 20, 2017 Dmitry Pashkevich 7 Comments

In a recent blog, we showed off some examples of Angular pipes we use in our code base. Now, we’d like to talk about directives. Angular directives allow you to attach behavior to elements in the DOM and reuse it across your project. The framework already comes with a number…

5 usage ideas for Angular pipes

November 8, 2017 Tyler Davis 5 Comments

Pipes are a useful feature in Angular. They are a simple way to transform values in an Angular template. There are some built in pipes, but you can also build your own pipes. A pipe takes in a value or values and then returns a value. This is great for…

Removing Roadblocks in the Move to Angular 4

April 20, 2017 Tyler Davis 2 Comments

Angular has become the de facto front-end MVC framework of the Web. We had been slowly adopting Angular 1 here at Lucidchart, but the vast majority of our crucial components were built in jQuery and vanilla JavaScript. We were one of the early pioneers of Angular 2. We found Angular…