RXJS control observable invocation

Question

I use RxJs version 5 within my Angular 2 project. I want to create some observables but I don\'t want the observables being invoked immediately.

In version 4 you co

Answer 1

You can seperate the start of the observable from subscription to it by publishing the observable. The published observable will only be started after calling connect on it.

Note that all subscribers will share a single subscription to the observable sequence.

var published = Observable.of(42).publish();
// subscription does not start the observable sequence
published.subscribe(value => console.log('received: ', value));
// connect starts the sequence; subscribers will now receive values
published.connect();