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Getting Started with Angular - Second edition

You're reading from   Getting Started with Angular - Second edition Fast-track your web development skills to build high performance SPA with Angular 2 and beyond

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787125278
Length 278 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Minko Gechev Minko Gechev
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Preface 1. Get Going with Angular FREE CHAPTER 2. The Building Blocks of an Angular Application 3. TypeScript Crash Course 4. Getting Started with Angular Components and Directives 5. Dependency Injection in Angular 6. Working with the Angular Router and Forms 7. Explaining Pipes and Communicating with RESTful Services 8. Tooling and Development Experience

DI in Angular


Another way we can approach this is by taking advantage of the DI pattern. We're already familiar with it from AngularJS; let's demonstrate how we can refactor the preceding code using DI in the context of Angular:

class Engine {...} 
class Transmission {...} 
 
@Injectable() 
class Car { 
  engine; 
  transmission;
 
  constructor(engine: Engine, transmission: Transmission) { 
    this.engine = engine; 
    this.transmission = transmission; 
  } 
} 

All we did in the preceding snippet was add the @Injectable class decorator on top of the definition of the Car class and provide type annotations for the parameters of its constructor.

Benefits of DI

There is one more step left, which we'll take a look at in the next section. Before that, let's take a look at what the benefits of the mentioned approach are:

  • We can easily pass different versions of the dependencies of the Car class for a testing environment, or for instantiating...

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