Nils Mehlhorn

Hi, I'm Nils

Product Developer. Freelance Software Consultant. Blogger.

I help companies develop sophisticated and maintainable software solutions. A major focus of mine are web technologies with languages such JavaScript, TypeScript and Java used with frameworks like Angular and Spring.

Essen, Germany

Writing

Learning & sharing - two great things combined allowing me to reflect on the way I work. I'll be writing about building products, web technologies from vanilla to frameworks like Angular or Spring and anything that fits in between.

I'm an author for Angular In Depth and part of the official Angular DEV Organization.

Angular File Download with Progress

March 10, 2020

Downloading files is a common task for web applications. These files could be some PDF, ZIP or any other binary or text-based file that you want to make accessible to your users. Here's how you can download files in Angular either with a rather…

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Handling Observables with Structural Directives in Angular

February 05, 2020

Handling observables is a much discussed topic in Angular. There are multiple ways to get reactive values displayed in your template, but sometimes they all just feel a bit clunky. Let's explore which options are available, how they work and how we…

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Angular Material Pagination Datasource

December 19, 2019

In the course of this article we're developing a reactive datasource for the Angular Material library that'll be reusable for many different paginated endpoints allowing you to configure search and sorting inputs on a per-instance basis. The final…

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Speaking

Public speaking allows me to engage directly with ambitious people from the community and grow both my knowledge and myself at the same time.

I like when concepts are conveyed visually and you're able to see benefits right away, that's why I often include interactivity and live coding.

Projects

SceneLab

Web application for creating beautiful flatlay and branding graphics

ngrx-wieder

Open source library for implementing undo-redo in Angular apps on top of NgRx

ngx-operators

Open source library with RxJS operators for Angular

ngx-observe

Open source library with Angular structural directive for observables