How to share service between two modules - @NgModule in angular not between to components?

Question

In my application, I have two different bootstrap module (@NgModule) running independently in one application. There are not one angular app bit separate bootstrap module and now I want they should communicate to each other and share data.

I know through @Injectable service as the provider in the module, I can share data in all component under @NgModule but how I will share data between two different module ( not component inside module ).

Is there a way one service object can be accessed in another module? Is there a way I can access the object of Service available in browser memory and use it in my other angular module?

Answer 1

You can instantiate a service outside Angular and provide a value:

class SharedService {
  ...
}

window.sharedService = new SharedService();

@NgModule({
  providers: [{provide: SharedService, useValue: window.sharedService}],
  ...
})
class AppModule1 {}

@NgModule({
  providers: [{provide: SharedService, useValue: window.sharedService}],
  ...
})
class AppModule2 {}

If one application change the state in SharedService or calls a method that causes an Observable to emit a value and the subscriber is in a different application than the emitter, the code in the subscriber is executed in the NgZone of the emitter.

Therefore when subscribing to an observable in SharedService use

class MyComponent {
  constructor(private zone:NgZone, private sharedService:SharedService) {
    sharedService.someObservable.subscribe(data => this.zone.run(() => {
      // event handler code here
    }));
  }
}

See also How to dynamically create bootstrap modals as Angular2 components?

Answer 2

As per the final version of Angular 2, services provided by a module are available to every other module that imports it. The Official Style Guide advice that application-wide services (singletons) that are to be reused anywhere in the application should be provided by some Core Module, that is to be imported in the main App Module so it would be injectable everywhere.

If you do not use a structure that involves a Core Module with shared singletons, and you are independently developing two NgModules, and you want a service in one of them to be used in the other, then the only solution is to import the provider into the other :

Here's the provider module:

/// some.module.ts
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';

import { SomeComponent }   from './some.component';

@NgModule({
    imports: [],
    exports: [],
    declarations: [SomeComponent],
    providers: [ MyService ], // <======================= PROVIDE THE SERVICE
})
export class SomeModule { }

Here's the other module, that wants to use MyService

/// some-other.module.ts
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';

import { SomeModule } from 'path/to/some.module'; // <=== IMPORT THE JSMODULE

import { SomeOtherComponent }   from './some.other.component';

@NgModule({
    imports: [ SomeModule ], // <======================== IMPORT THE NG MODULE
    exports: [],
    declarations: [SomeOtherComponent],
    providers: [],
})
export class SomeOtherModule { }

This way, the service should be injectable in any component SomeOtherModule declares, and in SomeModule itself - just ask for it in the constructor:

/// some-other.module.ts

import { MyService } from 'path/to/some.module/my-service';

/* ...
    rest of the module
*/

export class SomeOtherModule {
    constructor( private _myService: MyService) { <====== INJECT THE SERVICE
        this._myService.dosmth();
    }
}

If this doesn't answer your question, I invite you to re-formulate it.

Answer 3

1. create shared module

   @NgModule({})
   export class SharedModule {
       static forRoot(): ModuleWithProviders {
           return {
               ngModule: SharedModule,
               providers: [SingletonService]
           };
       }
   }
   

2. in the app module are your parent app module import the shared module like that

   SharedModule.forRoot()
   

3. any the children modules if you need to import the shared module import it without the for root

   SharedModule
   

https://angular-2-training-book.rangle.io/handout/modules/shared-modules-di.html

Answer 4

The answer that Günter Zöchbauer gave is great, however, one issue you may have is that

window.sharedService

will cause an error in TypeScript. You can get around this by replacing all instances of

window.sharedService

with

(<any>window).sharedService

Answer 5

I attempted to use the ideas in this answer to share data between multiple bootstrapped modules in my angular application. The data I was interested in was coming from an http.get() call. It was an expensive call and I wanted to only make the call once and share its results between my 2 bootstrapped modules.

Initially, I stored the service as a property on my global window object as suggested, but in the end, I decided to use static variables and call publishReplay() on my observable to create a ReplaySubject to replay my emissions to future subscribers. This allowed multiple subscribers to share data and only make the REST call once.

One caveat here... The original question asked how to share one service... This answer does not share one service... Multiple services are created, but the data is shared as the observable is stored in a static variable... That means the observable sticks around as long as your application and because of the call to publishReplay() anyone who subscribes to the observable replays the data previously returned.

Here is my code:

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { Observable, ReplaySubject } from 'rxjs/Rx';
import { Http } from '@angular/http';

@Injectable()
export class InitService {

    static observable: Observable<number> = null;

    constructor(private http: Http) {}

    getInitData(): Observable<number> {
        if (InitService.observable == null) {
            InitService.observable = this.http.get('api/Init')
                .map(this.extractData)
                .publishReplay()
                .refCount()
                .catch(this.handleError);
        }
        return InitService.observable;
    }


    extractData(res: Response) {
        let body: any = res.json();
        return body || {};
    }

}

Hope this helps.