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Angular Services

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785882616
Length 294 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Setting Up the Environment 2. Introducing Wire-Frames FREE CHAPTER 3. The Collector Service - Using Controllers to Collect Data 4. The Rating Service - Data Management 5. The Notifier Service - Creating Cron Jobs in Angular 6. The Evidence Tree Builder Service - Implementing the Business Logic 7. The Report Generator Service - Creating Controllers to Set Report Template 8. The Accuracy Manager Service - Putting It All Together

Introducing node-cron


Since we don't want to reinvent the wheel, we can benefit from a very useful node package called node-cron, which delivers exactly what we are looking for. Simply install the package by running the following command:

$ npm install node-cron --save

Normally we want to install the typings that are shipped with every node package. But not every node package is designed to be used inside TypeScript classes. Some of them, including node-cron, are plain JavaScript files. To prove that, try the following command:

$ typings install node-cron --save

As you can see, in the error message we can discover two facts:

typings ERR! message Unable to find "node-cron" ("npm") in the registry.
typings ERR! message We could use your help adding these typings to the registry: 
     https://github.com/typings/registry   

The first line indicates that node-cron doesn't provide any typings. The second error message denotes that there is a typings registry for all node packages and if you are...

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