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I Stopped Building the Same Angular Components Over and Over. Here's How.

DEV Community: angular·Dharmen Shah·5 months ago
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Real talk: how many times have you built a login page?

Not the first time — that was fine. But the fifth time? The tenth? At some point it stops being "building" and starts being "typing things you already know into a new folder."

I hit that wall working on an Angular project a while back. And it made me think hard about where my actual time was going.

The Repetition Problem in Angular Projects

Most Angular apps share a very predictable set of UI patterns:

Auth screens (login, signup, password reset)

Dashboard layouts with sidebars and stat cards

Data tables with sorting, filtering, pagination

Settings/profile pages with forms and toggles

File upload flows

Onboarding steps

None of these are hard to build. But they're time-consuming, and when different devs build them independently, you get subtle inconsistencies — different spacing, slightly different behavior, varying accessibility.…

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