Pro Angular 16

18 Using services

This book covers

• Understanding services and the problems they solve
• Defining and registering services
• Consuming services using dependency injection
• Using services in components, pipes, and directives
• Using services to isolate components

Services are objects that provide common functionality to support other building blocks in an application, such as directives, components, and pipes. What’s important about services is the way that they are used, which is through a process called dependency injection. Using services can increase the flexibility and scalability of an Angular application, but dependency injection can be a difficult topic to understand. To that end, I start this chapter slowly and explain the problems that ...