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Angular Services

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Angular Services

Overview of this book

A primary concern with modern day applications is that they need to be dynamic, and for that, data access from the server side, data authentication, and security are very important. Angular leverages its services to create such state-of-the-art dynamic applications. This book will help you create and design customized services, integrate them into your applications, import third-party plugins, and make your apps perform better and faster. This book starts with a basic rundown on how you can create your own Angular development environment compatible with v2 and v4. You will then use Bootstrap and Angular UI components to create pages. You will also understand how to use controllers to collect data and populate them into NG UIs. Later, you will then create a rating service to evaluate entries and assign a score to them. Next, you will create "cron jobs" in NG. We will then create a crawler service to find all relevant resources regarding a selected headline and generate reports on it. Finally, you will create a service to manage accuracy and provide feedback about troubled areas in the app created. This book is up to date for the 2.4 release and is compatible with the 4.0 release as well, and it does not have any code based on the beta or release candidates.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Angular Services
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Preface

Updating the collector component


Now we have an observable object that gives us a JSON string that contains news items. The best way to collect these news items from the Collector service is by subscribing to the observable object and then passing the news array to the template.

Using the subscribe() function, we fetch the 'data' array and push it into our private property - headlines - for later access:

// app/collector/collector.component.ts 
//... 
export class CollectorComponent { 
  //.... 
  constructor (collectorService: CollectorService) { 
    collectorService.getHeadlines() 
      .subscribe( 
        data => { 
          this.headlines = data; 
        } 
      ); 
  } 
  //... 
} 

As we saw inside the service, the data is already mapped to an array of the news. So when we assign it to the headlines property, what we get in the template is an array of objects with various properties including link, title, and description:

item: [ 
  { 
    title:"Clinton 'extremely careless' but...