Angular 2 HostListener keypress detect escape key?

Question

I am using the following method to detect keypresses on a page. My plan is to detect when the Escape key is pressed and run a method if so. For the moment I am just attempti

Answer 1

Angular makes this easy with the @HostListener decorator. This is a function decorator that accepts an event name as an argument. When that event gets fired on the host element it calls the associated function.

@HostListener('document:keydown.escape', ['$event']) onKeydownHandler(event: 
    KeyboardEvent) {
    this.closeBlade();
   }