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

Aniruddha Das picture Aniruddha Das · Oct 17, 2016 · Viewed 43.2k times · Source

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

FacelessPanda picture FacelessPanda · Nov 13, 2016

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.