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Emit an event through service in Angular

What is the proper way of emitting an event through a service. I have read that declaring the EventEmitter in the service it's not suitable.

I want to achieve the following.

I have 2 components inside the root component, when I click in the first component, I want to know that the first component was clicked in the second component.

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Tiberius Avatar asked Oct 19 '25 03:10

Tiberius


1 Answers

There are four possible scenarios in which you can share your data but it depends upon your requirements

Parent to Child: Sharing Data via Input

Child to Parent: Sharing Data via ViewChild

Child to Parent: Sharing Data via Output() and EventEmitter

Unrelated Components: Sharing Data with a Service

When passing data between components that lack a direct connection, such as siblings, grandchildren, etc, you should you a shared service. When you have data that should aways been in sync, I find the RxJS BehaviorSubject very useful in this situation.

You can also use a regular RxJS Subject for sharing data via the service, but here’s why I prefer a BehaviorSubject.

It will always return the current value on subscription - there is no need to call onnext It has a getValue() function to extract the last value as raw data. It ensures that the component always receives the most recent data. In the service, we create a private BehaviorSubject that will hold the current value of the message. We define a currentMessage variable handle this data stream as an observable that will be used by the components. Lastly, we create function that calls next on the BehaviorSubject to change its value.

The parent, child, and sibling components all receive the same treatment. We inject the DataService in the constructor, then subscribe to the currentMessage observable and set its value equal to the message variable.

Now if we create a function in any one of these components that changes the value of the message. when this function is executed the new data it’s automatically broadcast to all other components. Here its a code snippet.

data.service.ts

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { BehaviorSubject } from 'rxjs';

@Injectable()
export class DataService {

  private messageSource = new BehaviorSubject('default message');
  currentMessage = this.messageSource.asObservable();

  constructor() { }

  changeMessage(message: string) {
    this.messageSource.next(message)
  }

}

parent.component.ts

import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { DataService } from "../data.service";

@Component({
  selector: 'app-parent',
  template: `
    {{message}}
  `,
  styleUrls: ['./sibling.component.css']
})
export class ParentComponent implements OnInit {

  message:string;

  constructor(private data: DataService) { }

  ngOnInit() {
    this.data.currentMessage.subscribe(message => this.message = message)
  }

}

second.component.ts

import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { DataService } from "../data.service";

@Component({
  selector: 'app-sibling',
  template: `
    {{message}}
    <button (click)="newMessage()">New Message</button>
  `,
  styleUrls: ['./sibling.component.css']
})
export class SiblingComponent implements OnInit {

  message:string;

  constructor(private data: DataService) { }

  ngOnInit() {
    this.data.currentMessage.subscribe(message => this.message = message)
  }

  newMessage() {
    this.data.changeMessage("Hello from Sibling")
  }

}
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Wasiq Muhammad Avatar answered Oct 21 '25 15:10

Wasiq Muhammad



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