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The Naive Approach to Using Angular’s Async Pipe When I was still fairly new to doing frontend development with TypeScript and Angular, I was tasked with building a component in Lucidchart that would show up conditionally. This seemed like a great opportunity to familiarize myself with Angular’s async pipe. The…

A tags component Last year, Lucidchart added many new features that enable users to attach metadata to their Lucidchart documents. One of the new types of document metadata is called custom tags. Custom tags functionality allows Lucidchart users to add arbitrary tag strings to their documents and to sort and…

Lucidchart is a highly performant web application. When editing a Lucidchart document, users expect a high frame rate and a responsive UI. To ensure a great experience, we track frame rate and UI stalls. This article describes how we leverage an existing library, Zone.js, to accomplish this. Prereq: The JavaScript…

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…