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The RxJS function combineLatest() accepts a selector function as last parameter. This selector function receives the latest value of each observable as argument and can be used to return a new value that will be emitted.

combineLatest(
  // Array of observables
  [stream1$, stream2$, stream3$],

  // Selector function
  (val1, val2, val3) => val1 + val2 + val3 // Return value will be emitted
).subscribe();

Storybook allows you to import existing Markdown files your MDX docs. You just need configure the transcludeMarkdown option in your storybook config:

// .storybook/main.js
module.exports = {
  addons: [
    {
      name: "@storybook/addon-docs",
      options: { transcludeMarkdown: true },
    },
  ],
  // ...
};

Then you can import your Markdown file in your MDX file and render it as a component:

import Example from "./Example.md";

# Hello World

<Example />

In SCSS, selectors can be deeply nested. In some situations you may want to break out of the current selector hierarchy and emit some styles at the root of the document. SCSS provides the @at-root rule for this use case:

/* styles.scss */
@mixin some-mixin() {
  color: black;

  @at-root body {
    background: lightgray;
  }
}

.some-class {
  @include some-mixin();
}

This will move body out of the parent selector:

/* styles.css */
.some-class {
  color: black;
}

body {
  background-color: lightgray;
}

If you want to create a collection from a folder in your Eleventy project, like a collection of blog posts in the posts folder, you could manually add a post tag to every post. But there is an easier way.

The Collection API in Eleventy lets you filter your pages by glob patterns:

module.exports = (eleventyConfig) => {
  eleventyConfig.addCollection("posts", function (collectionApi) {
    return collectionApi.getFilteredByGlob("posts/*.md");
  });
};

This will create a collection "posts" that contains all the markdown files in the posts folder.

A factory function provider in Angular can have dependencies using the deps property.

@NgModule({
  providers: [
    {
      provide: SOME_INJECTION_TOKEN,
      deps: [MyService],
      useFactory: (myService: myService) => {
        return myService.someMethod();
      },
    },
  ],
})
export class MyModule {}

The problem is that you need to write the dependencies twice: once for the deps property and once as arguments of the useFactory function. Thanks to the new inject() function in Angular 14 there is now a better way to inject dependencies.

Call the inject() function and pass your dependency (here MyService) as argument. It will provide you the dependency and the return value is type-safe.

import { inject } from "@angular/core";

@NgModule({
  providers: [
    {
      provide: SOME_INJECTION_TOKEN,
      useFactory: () => {
        const myService = inject(MyService);
        return myService.someMethod();

        // Or as a one-liner:
        // return inject(MyService).someMethod();
      },
    },
  ],
})
export class MyModule {}