Unstacked Labs Newsletter

Beyond the Binge: Building Smart Movie & TV Recommendations with Angular, Genkit & Firebase

The Dawn of Personalized Entertainment: Building an AI-Powered Recommender

Aug 11 • 

Wayne Gakuo

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Dev 101: TypeScript 5.0+ Decorators

The Decorator Pattern in Typescript 5.0 and above features a new API while still allowing to enjoy attaching new behaviors to objects by placing them…

Aug 1 • 

Alex Muturi

Dev 101: TypeScript Legacy (Pre-v5.0) Decorators

The Decorator Pattern is a structural design pattern that attaches new behaviors to objects by placing them inside special wrapper objects, called…

Aug 1 • 

Alex Muturi

June 2025

Building AI-powered e-commerce applications using Angular and Firebase AI Logic (formerly Vertex AI in Firebase)

A Practical Guide to Integrating Generative AI into Your Online Store with Angular and Firebase

Jun 18 • 

Wayne Gakuo

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Genkit Tool Calling: Give AI Models (LLMs) the Tools to Get Things Done

A practical walkthrough of Genkits' tool-calling, demonstrating how to connect AI Models to your internal systems to get things done through natural…

Jun 16 • 

Maina Wycliffe

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May 2025

Dev 101: Custom JavaScript Signals Inspired by Angular’s Signals

Interestingly, Angular Signals work like a function and have an object property as a function. What if you could build your own reactive signal…

May 5 • 

Alex Muturi

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Level Up your Testing Game with Jest Spies and Asymmetric Matchers

Leveraging Jest Spies and Asymmetric Matchers for Reliable and Robust Unit Tests

May 5 • 

Maina Wycliffe

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March 2025

Organize Your Firebase Functions For Easier Deployments and Maintenance

When developing Firebase functions, it's common to have everything in a single repository - all the Firebase Functions for your project. This is usually…

Mar 20 • 

Maina Wycliffe

February 2025

Exploring Routes Rendering Modes in Angular

In Angular 19, Angular introduced Route Models and Hybrid Rendering for SSR, in this article, we explore Rendering Modes and why they can be very useful

Feb 10 • 

Maina Wycliffe

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March 2024

Boost your productivity by mastering oh my ZSH git aliases

We take a look at Oh My ZSH Git Aliases and how I use them to improve my developer experience and boost my productivity.

Mar 6, 2024 • 

Maina Wycliffe

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November 2023

A deep dive into new control flow syntax for Angular (17)

We take a look at the new control flow syntax that was released with #Angular 17 and its benefits over the old syntax and the new tricks it packs.

Nov 20, 2023 • 

Maina Wycliffe

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Avoid using Type Assertions in TypeScript

In this issue, I will explain why you should avoid using Type Assertions in Typescript and techniques you can use to avoid them.

Published on All Things Typescript • Nov 6, 2023