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Essential Angular

You're reading from   Essential Angular Fast paced guide to Front-end web development with Angular

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788293761
Length 108 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Narwhal Technologies Inc Narwhal Technologies Inc
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Jeff Cross Jeff Cross
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Victor Savkin Victor Savkin
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Advanced topics

Controlling visibility

You can be more specific where you want to get dependencies from. For instance, you can ask for another directive on the same element.

class CustomInputComponent {
constructor(@Self() f: FormatterDirective) {}
}

Or you can ask for a directive in the same template, that is, you can only inject an ancestor directive from the same HTML file.

class CustomInputComponent {
constructor(@Host() f: CustomForm) {}
}

Finally, you can ask to skip the current element, which can be handy for decorating existing providers or building up tree-like structures.

class SomeComponent {
constructor(@SKipSelf() ancestor: SomeComponent) {}
}

Optional dependencies

To mark a dependency as optional, use the Optional decorator.

class Login {
constructor...
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