In the first tutorial of the series, we learned how to get started in order to create an Angular app. After successfully completing that tutorial, you should now have your first functioning Angular app with the heading 'Fun Facts About Countries'. Before creating any components that can be rendered on the screen, we will create some classes and define some functions that make those components useful.
In this tutorial, our focus will be on creating a Country
class which will contain different properties whose value we want to display to the user. We will then create another file named country-data.ts
. This file will contain information about all the countries in our app. Our third file will be named country.service.ts
. The name may sound fancy, but the file will just contain a CountryService
class with all the necessary functionality to retrieve and sort the information provided by the file country-data.ts
.
Inside the src/app
folder of your Angular app, create a file named country.ts
. Add the following code inside it.
export class Country { name: string; capital: string; area: number; population: number; currency: string; gdp: number; }
The above TypeScript code defines the Country
class with six different properties to store information about different countries. The name of the country, its capital, and its currency are stored as a string. However, its area, population, and GDP are stored as a number. We will be importing the Country
class in a lot of places, so I have added the export
keyword before the class definition.
The next step includes creating a country-data.ts
file to store the information about all the countries as an array of Country
objects. We will be importing the Country
class in this file and then exporting a const
named COUNTRIES
which stores an array of country objects.
Here is the code for country-data.ts
. Just like country.ts
, you have to create this file inside the src/app
folder.
import { Country } from './country'; export const COUNTRIES: Country[] = [ { name: 'Russia', capital: 'Moscow', area: 17098246, population: 144463451, currency: 'Russian Ruble', gdp: 1283162 }, { name: 'Canada', capital: 'Ottawa', area: 9984670, population: 35151728, currency: 'Canadian Dollar', gdp: 159760 }, { name: 'China', capital: 'Beijing', area: 9596961, population: 1403500365, currency: 'Renminbi (Yuan)', gdp: 11199145 }, { name: 'United States', capital: 'Washington, D.C.', area: 9525067, population: 325365189, currency: 'United States Dollar', gdp: 18569100 }, { name: 'Japan', capital: 'Tokyo', area: 377972, population: 12676200, currency: 'Yen', gdp: 4939384 } ];
The first line in this file imports the Country
class from the country.ts
file located in the same directory. If you remove this line from the file, TypeScript will give you the following error:
Cannot find name 'Country'.
Without the import statement, TypeScript will have no idea what an array of type Country
means. So make sure that you have imported the right class and specified the location of country.ts
correctly.
After importing the Country
class, we go ahead and create an array of Country
objects. We will be importing this array of countries for use within other files, so we add an export
keyword to this array as well. Currently, there are five different Country
objects in the array. Each of these five objects provides key-value pairs that list the name of a property and its value for a particular object or country.
If you try to add an additional property to the array which has not been declared inside the Country
class definition, you will get the following error:
Object literal may only specify known properties, and 'president' does not exist in type 'Country'
In this case, I was trying to store the name of the president as a string
inside a property named president
. Since no such property was declared, we got an error. Sometimes, you might want to specify a property only for particular objects and not for others. In such cases, you can mark the property optional inside the class definition. I have discussed it in more detail in a tutorial which covers TypeScript Interfaces.
For now, just make sure that the names of all the properties match the names inside the class definition. Also make sure that the value of each property has the same type as declared in the class definition.
After creating our Country
class and COUNTRIES
array, we can now finally write some functions to process the country data. We will need to import both the Country
class and the COUNTRIES
array inside our service file. The file will need to import the COUNTRIES
array in order to have access to the data. Similarly, the file will have to import the Country
class in order to make sense of the data inside the COUNTRIES
array.
We will also be importing other dependencies like Injectable
from Angular core to make our CountryService
class available for the Injector to inject in other components.
Once your app grows in size, different modules will need to communicate with each other. Let's say that ModuleA
requires ModuleB
in order to work properly. In such cases, we would call ModuleB
a dependency of ModuleA
.
Simply importing the module we need into another file works most of the time. However, sometimes we need to decide if we should create a single instance of classes from ModuleB
that will be used by the whole app or if we should create a new instance every time the module is used. In our case, we will be injecting a single instance of our CountryService
class throughout the app.
Here is the code for country.service.ts
:
import { Injectable } from '@angular/core'; import { Country } from './country'; import { COUNTRIES } from './country-data'; @Injectable() export class CountryService { constructor() { } getCountries(): Country[] { return COUNTRIES; } getPopulatedCountries(): Country[] { return COUNTRIES.sort((a, b) => b.population - a.population).slice(0, 3); } getLargestCountries(): Country[] { return COUNTRIES.sort((a, b) => b.area - a.area).slice(0, 3); } getGDPCountries(): Country[] { return COUNTRIES.sort((a, b) => b.gdp - a.gdp).slice(0, 3); } getCountry(name: string): Country { return COUNTRIES.find(country => country.name === name); } }
An @injectable
decorator is used to identify a service class that might require injected dependencies. However, adding the @injectable
to service classes is a required coding style, so we do it anyway.
After that, we write different methods for the class which take the COUNTRIES
array and either return it directly or sort it using certain criteria and then return a part of the array.
The getCountries()
method is expected to return all the Country
objects, and so it returns the whole COUNTRIES
array without making any modifications to it.
The getPopulatedCountries()
takes the COUNTRIES
array and sorts it in descending order based on the population of different countries. We then use the Array.slice() method in order to return the first three countries (with indices 0, 1, and 2) from the array. The getLargestCountries()
and getGDPCountries()
methods work in a similar fashion.
The getCountry()
method takes a name as its argument and returns the country object whose name property has the same value as the supplied name argument.
A service that you create is just a class in Angular until you have registered it with an Angular dependency injector. An Angular injector will be the one responsible for creating service instance(s) and injecting them into different classes which need that service. We need to register a service with a provider before the injector can create that service.
There are two common ways to register any service: using a @Component
provider or using the @NgModule
provider. Using the @Component
provider makes sense when you want to restrict the access of a service to a particular component and all its nested components. Using the @NgModule
provider makes sense when you want multiple components to have access to the service.
In our case, we will be using CountryService
with multiple components of our app. This means that we should register it with the @NgModule
provider once, instead of registering it separately with the @Component
provider of each component.
Currently, your app.module.ts
file should look like this:
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser'; import { NgModule } from '@angular/core'; import { AppComponent } from './app.component'; @NgModule({ declarations: [ AppComponent ], imports: [ BrowserModule ], providers: [], bootstrap: [AppComponent] }) export class AppModule { }
Add an import statement to the app.module.ts
file and add the service to the @NgModule
providers array. After making these changes, your app.module.ts
file should look like this:
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser'; import { NgModule } from '@angular/core'; import { AppComponent } from './app.component'; import { CountryService } from './country.service'; @NgModule({ declarations: [ AppComponent ], imports: [ BrowserModule ], providers: [CountryService], bootstrap: [AppComponent] }) export class AppModule { }
The CountryService
class will now be available to all the components that we create for our app.
Successfully creating three files named country.ts
, country-data.ts
, and country.service.ts
concludes the second tutorial of this series.
The country.ts
file is used to create a Country
class with different properties like name, currency, population, area, etc. The country-data.ts
file is used to store an array of country objects which have information about different countries. The country.service.ts
file contains a service class with different methods to access the country data from the COUNTRIES
array. Writing all these methods separately inside a service class allows us to access them inside different app components from a central location.
In the last section, we registered our service with the @NgModule
provider to make it available for use inside different components.
The next tutorial will show you how to create three different components in your app to display country details and a list of countries.
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