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include ../_util-fns
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- var top="vertical-align:top"
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:marked
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# Component Lifecycle
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# 组件生命周期
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A Component has a lifecycle managed by Angular itself. Angular creates it, renders it, creates and renders its children,
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checks it when its data-bound properties change, and destroys it before removing it from the DOM.
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一个组件有一个被Angular本身管理的生命周期。Angular创建它,渲染它,创建和渲染它的子级,在它的数据绑定属性变化时检查它,并在它被从DOM移除前销毁它。
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Angular offers **component lifecycle hooks**
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that give us visibility into these key moments and the ability to act when they occur.
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Angular提供**组件生命周期钩子**,提高了这些关键时刻的能见度,并给了我们在它们发生的时候采取行动的能力。
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We cover these hooks in this chapter and demonstrate how they work in code.
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我们在本章节覆盖这些钩子,演示它们在代码中是怎么工作的。
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* [The lifecycle hooks](#hooks-overview)
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* [生命周期钩子](#hooks-overview)
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* [The hook-call sequence](#hook-sequence)
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* [钩子调用顺序](#hook-sequence)
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* [Other Angular lifecycle hooks](#other-lifecycles)
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* [其他Angular生命周期钩子](#other-lifecycles)
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* [The lifecycle sample](#the-sample)
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* [生命周期例子](#the-sample)
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* [All](#peek-a-boo)
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* [全部](#peek-a-boo)
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* [Spying OnInit and OnDestroy](#spy)
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* [窥测OnInit和OnDestroy](#spy)
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* [OnChanges](#onchanges)
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* [OnChanges](#onchanges)
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* [DoCheck](#docheck)
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* [DoCheck](#docheck)
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* [AfterViewInit and AfterViewChecked](#afterview)
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* [AfterContentInit和AfterContentChecked](#aftercontent)
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p Try the #[+liveExampleLink2()].
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p 试一试#[+liveExampleLink2()]。
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a#hooks-overview
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.l-main-section
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:marked
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## Component lifecycle Hooks
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##组件生命周期钩子
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Directive and component instances have a lifecycle
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as Angular creates, updates, and destroys them.
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指令和组件实例
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Developers can tap into key moments in that lifecycle by implementing
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one or more of the *Lifecycle Hook* interfaces in the Angular `core` library.
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Each interface has a single hook method whose name is the interface name prefixed with `ng`.
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For example, the `OnInit` interface has a hook method named `ngOnInit`.
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We might implement it in a component class like this:
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+makeExample('lifecycle-hooks/ts/app/peek-a-boo.component.ts', 'ngOnInit', 'peek-a-boo.component.ts (excerpt)')(format='.')
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:marked
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No directive or component will implement all of them and some of the hooks only make sense for components.
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Angular only calls a directive/component hook method *if it is defined*.
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block optional-interfaces
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.l-sub-section
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:marked
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### Interface optional?
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The interfaces are optional for JavaScript and Typescript developers from a purely technical perspective.
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The JavaScript language doesn't have interfaces.
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Angular can't see TypeScript interfaces at runtime because they disappear from the transpiled JavaScript.
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Fortunately, they aren't necessary.
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We don't have to add the lifecycle hook interfaces to our directives and components to benefit from the hooks themselves.
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Angular instead inspects our directive and component classes and calls the hook methods *if they are defined*.
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Angular will find and call methods like `ngOnInit()`, with or without the interfaces.
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Nonetheless, we strongly recommend adding interfaces to TypeScript directive classes
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in order to benefit from strong typing and editor tooling.
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:marked
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Here are the component lifecycle hook methods:
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### Directives and Components
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table(width="100%")
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col(width="20%")
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col(width="80%")
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tr
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th Hook
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th Purpose
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tr(style=top)
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td ngOnInit
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td
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:marked
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Initialize the directive/component after Angular initializes the data-bound input properties.
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tr(style=top)
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td ngOnChanges
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td
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:marked
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Respond after Angular sets a data-bound input property.
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The method receives a `changes` object of current and previous values.
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tr(style=top)
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td ngDoCheck
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td
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:marked
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Detect and act upon changes that Angular can or won't
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detect on its own. Called every change detection run.
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tr(style=top)
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td ngOnDestroy
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td
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:marked
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Cleanup just before Angular destroys the directive/component.
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Unsubscribe observables and detach event handlers to avoid memory leaks.
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:marked
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### Components only
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table(width="100%")
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col(width="20%")
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col(width="80%")
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tr
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th Hook
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th Purpose
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tr(style=top)
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td ngAfterContentInit
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td
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:marked
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After Angular projects external content into its view.
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tr(style=top)
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td ngAfterContentChecked
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td
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:marked
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After Angular checks the bindings of the external content that it projected into its view.
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tr(style=top)
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td ngAfterViewInit
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td
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:marked
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After Angular creates the component's view(s).
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tr(style=top)
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td ngAfterViewChecked
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td
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:marked
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After Angular checks the bindings of the component's view(s).
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:marked
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Angular does not call the hook methods in this order.
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a(id="hook-sequence")
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.l-main-section
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:marked
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## Lifecycle sequence
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*After* Angular creates a component/directive by `new`-ing its constructor,
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it calls the lifecycle hook methods in the following sequence at specific moments:
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table(width="100%")
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col(width="20%")
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col(width="80%")
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tr
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th Hook
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th Timing
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tr(style=top)
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td ngOnChanges
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td
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:marked
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before `ngOnInit` and when a data-bound input property value changes.
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tr(style=top)
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td ngOnInit
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td
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:marked
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after the first `ngOnChanges`.
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tr(style=top)
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td ngDoCheck
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td
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:marked
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during every Angular change detection cycle.
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td ngAfterContentInit
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td
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:marked
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after projecting content into the component.
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tr(style=top)
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td ngAfterContentChecked
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td
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:marked
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after every check of projected component content.
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tr(style=top)
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td ngAfterViewInit
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td
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:marked
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after initializing the component's views and child views.
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tr(style=top)
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td ngAfterViewChecked
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td
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:marked
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after every check of the component's views and child views.
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tr(style=top)
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td ngOnDestroy
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td
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:marked
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just before Angular destroys the directive/component.
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a(id="other-lifecycles")
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.l-main-section
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:marked
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## Other lifecycle hooks
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Other Angular sub-systems may have their own lifecycle hooks apart from the component hooks we've listed.
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The router, for instance, also has it's own [router lifecycle hooks](router.html#router-lifecycle-hooks)
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that allow us to tap into specific moments in route navigation.
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A parallel can be drawn between `ngOnInit` and `routerOnActivate`.
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Both are prefixed so as to avoid collision, and both run right when a component is 'booting' up.
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3rd party libraries might implement their hooks as well in order to give us, the developers, more
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control over how these libraries are used.
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a#the-sample
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h2 Lifecycle exercises
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p.
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The #[+liveExampleLink()]
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demonstrates the lifecycle hooks in action through a series of exercises
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presented as components under the control of the root `AppComponent`.
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:marked
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They follow a common pattern: a *parent* component serves as a test rig for
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a *child* component that illustrates one or more of the lifecycle hook methods.
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Here's a brief description of each exercise:
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table(width="100%")
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col(width="20%")
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col(width="80%")
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tr
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th Component
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th Description
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td <a href="#peek-a-boo">Peek-a-boo</a>
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td
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:marked
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Demonstrates every lifecycle hook.
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Each hook method writes to the on-screen log.
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tr(style=top)
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td <a href="#spy">Spy</a>
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td
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:marked
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Directives have lifecycle hooks too.
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We create a `SpyDirective` that logs when the element it spies upon is
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created or destroyed using the `ngOnInit` and `ngOnDestroy` hooks.
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We apply the `SpyDirective` to a `<div>` in an `ngFor` *hero* repeater
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managed by the parent `SpyComponent`.
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tr(style=top)
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td <a href="#onchanges">OnChanges</a>
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td
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:marked
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See how Angular calls the `ngOnChanges` hook with a `changes` object
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every time one of the component input properties changes.
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Shows how to interpret the `changes` object.
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tr(style=top)
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td <a href="#docheck">DoCheck</a>
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td
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:marked
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Implements an `ngDoCheck` method with custom change detection.
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See how often Angular calls this hook and watch it post changes to a log.
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tr(style=top)
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td <a href="#afterview">AfterView</a>
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td
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:marked
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Shows what Angular means by a *view*.
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Demonstrates the `ngAfterViewInit` and `ngAfterViewChecked` hooks.
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tr(style=top)
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td <a href="#aftercontent">AfterContent</a>
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td
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:marked
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Shows how to project external content into a component and
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how to distinguish projected content from a component's view children.
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Demonstrates the `ngAfterContentInit` and `ngAfterContentChecked` hooks.
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tr(style=top)
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td Counter
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td
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:marked
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Demonstrates a combination of a component and a directive
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each with its own hooks.
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In this example, a `CounterComponent` logs a change (via `ngOnChanges`)
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every time the parent component increments its input counter property.
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Meanwhile, we apply the `SpyDirective` from the previous example
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to the `CounterComponent` log and watch log entries be created and destroyed.
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:marked
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We discuss the exercises in further detail over this chapter as we learn more about the lifecycle hooks.
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a(id="peek-a-boo")
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.l-main-section
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:marked
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## Peek-a-boo: all hooks
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The `PeekABooComponent` demonstrates all of the hooks in one component.
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In real life, we'd rarely if ever implement all of the interfaces like this.
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We do so in peek-a-boo in order to watch Angular call the hooks in the expected order.
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In this snapshot, we clicked the *Create...* button and then the *Destroy...* button.
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figure.image-display
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img(src="/resources/images/devguide/lifecycle-hooks/peek-a-boo.png" alt="Peek-a-boo")
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:marked
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The sequence of log messages follows the prescribed hook calling order:
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`OnChanges`, `OnInit`, `DoCheck` (3x), `AfterContentInit`, `AfterContentChecked` (3x),
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`AfterViewInit`, `AfterViewChecked` (3x), and `OnDestroy`.
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.l-sub-section
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:marked
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The constructor isn't an Angular hook *per se*.
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We log in it to confirm that input properties (the `name` property in this case) have no assigned values at construction.
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:marked
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Had we clicked the *Update Hero* button, we'd have seen another `OnChanges` and two more triplets of
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`DoCheck`, `AfterContentChecked` and `AfterViewChecked`.
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Clearly these three hooks fire a *lot* and we must keep the logic we put in these hooks
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as lean as possible!
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Our next examples focus on hook details.
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.a(id="spy")
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.l-main-section
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:marked
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## Spying *OnInit* and *OnDestroy*
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We're going undercover for these two hooks. We want to know when an element is initialized or destroyed,
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but we don't want *it* to know we're watching.
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This is the perfect infiltration job for a directive.
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Our heroes will never know it's there.
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.l-sub-section
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:marked
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Kidding aside, we're emphasizing two key points:
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1. Angular calls hook methods for *directives* as well as components.
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2. A spy directive can gives us insight into a DOM object that we cannot change directly.
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Obviously we can't change the implementation of a native `div`.
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We can't modify a third party component either.
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But we can watch both with a directive.
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:marked
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Our sneaky spy directive is simple, consisting almost entirely of `ngOnInit` and `ngOnDestroy` hooks
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that log messages to the parent via an injected `LoggerService`.
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+makeExample('lifecycle-hooks/ts/app/spy.directive.ts', 'spy-directive')(format=".")
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:marked
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We can apply the spy to any native or component element and it'll be initialized and destroyed
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at the same time as that element.
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Here we attach it to the repeated hero `<div>`
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+makeExample('lifecycle-hooks/ts/app/spy.component.html', 'template')(format=".")
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:marked
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Each spy's birth and death marks the birth and death of the attached hero `<div>`
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with an entry in the *Hook Log* as we see here:
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figure.image-display
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img(src='/resources/images/devguide/lifecycle-hooks/spy-directive.gif' alt="Spy Directive")
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:marked
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Adding a hero results in a new hero `<div>`. The spy's `ngOnInit` logs that event.
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We see a new entry for each hero.
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The *Reset* button clears the `heroes` list.
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Angular removes all hero divs from the DOM and destroys their spy directives at the same time.
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The spy's `ngOnDestroy` method reports its last moments.
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The `ngOnInit` and `ngOnDestroy` methods have more vital roles to play in real applications.
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Let's see why we need them.
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### OnInit
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We turn to `ngOnInit` for two main reasons:
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1. To perform complex initializations shortly after construction
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1. To set up the component after Angular sets the input properties
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An `ngOnInit` often fetches data for the component as shown in the
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[Tutorial](../tutorial/toh-pt4.html#oninit) and [HTTP](server-communication.html#oninit) chapters.
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We don't fetch data in a component constructor. Why?
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Because experienced developers agree that components should be cheap and safe to construct.
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We shouldn't worry that a new component will try to contact a remote server when
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created under test or before we decide to display it.
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Constructors should do no more than set the initial local variables to simple values.
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When a component must start working _soon_ after creation,
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we can count on Angular to call the `ngOnInit` method to jumpstart it.
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That's where the heavy initialization logic belongs.
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Remember also that a directive's data-bound input properties are not set until _after construction_.
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That's a problem if we need to initialize the directive based on those properties.
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They'll have been set when our `ngOninit` runs.
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.l-sub-section
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:marked
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Our first opportunity to access those properties is the `ngOnChanges` method which
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Angular calls before `ngOnit`. But Angular calls `ngOnChanges` many times after that.
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It only calls `ngOnit` once.
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:marked
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### OnDestroy
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Put cleanup logic in `ngOnDestroy`, the logic that *must* run before Angular destroys the directive.
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This is the time to notify another part of the application that this component is going away.
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This is the place to free resources that won't be garbage collected automatically.
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Unsubscribe from observables and DOM events. Stop interval timers.
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Unregister all callbacks that this directive registered with global or application services.
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We risk memory leaks if we neglect to do so.
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.l-main-section
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:marked
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## OnChanges
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We monitor the `OnChanges` hook in this example.
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Angular calls its `ngOnChanges` method whenever it detects changes to ***input properties*** of the component (or directive).
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Here is our implementation of the hook.
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+makeExample('lifecycle-hooks/ts/app/on-changes.component.ts', 'ng-on-changes', 'OnChangesComponent (ngOnChanges)')(format=".")
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:marked
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The `ngOnChanges` method takes an object that maps each changed property name to a
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[SimpleChange](../api/core/SimpleChange-class.html) object with the current and previous property values.
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We iterate over the changed properties and log them.
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The input properties for our example `OnChangesComponent` are `hero` and `power`.
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+makeExample('lifecycle-hooks/ts/app/on-changes.component.ts', 'inputs')(format=".")
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:marked
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The parent binds to them like this:
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+makeExample('lifecycle-hooks/ts/app/on-changes-parent.component.html', 'on-changes')
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:marked
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Here's the sample in action as we make changes.
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figure.image-display
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img(src='/resources/images/devguide/lifecycle-hooks/on-changes-anim.gif' alt="OnChanges")
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:marked
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We see log entries as the string value of the *power* property changes. But the `ngOnChanges` did not catch changes to `hero.name`
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That's surprising at first.
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Angular only calls the hook when the value of the input property changes.
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The value of the `hero` property is the *reference to the hero object*.
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Angular doesn't care that the hero's own `name` property changed.
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The hero object *reference* didn't change so, from Angular's perspective, there is no change to report!
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.l-main-section
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:marked
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## DoCheck
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We can use the `DoCheck` hook to detect and act upon changes that Angular doesn't catch on its own.
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.l-sub-section
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:marked
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With this method we can detect a change that Angular overlooked.
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What we do with that information to refresh the display is a separate matter.
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:marked
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The *DoCheck* sample extends the *OnChanges* sample with this implementation of `DoCheck`:
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+makeExample('lifecycle-hooks/ts/app/do-check.component.ts', 'ng-do-check', 'DoCheckComponent (ngDoCheck)')(format=".")
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:marked
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We manually check everything that we care about, capturing and comparing against previous values.
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We write a special message to the log when there are no substantive changes
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to the hero or the power so we can keep an eye on the method's performance characteristics.
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The results are illuminating:
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figure.image-display
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img(src='/resources/images/devguide/lifecycle-hooks/do-check-anim.gif' alt="DoCheck")
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:marked
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We now are able to detect when the hero's `name` has changed. But we must be careful.
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The `ngDoCheck` hook is called with enormous frequency —
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after _every_ change detection cycle no matter where the change occurred.
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It's called over twenty times in this example before the user can do anything.
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Most of these initial checks are triggered by Angular's first rendering of *unrelated data elsewhere on the page*.
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Mere mousing into another input box triggers a call.
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Relatively few calls reveal actual changes to pertinent data.
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Clearly our implementation must be very lightweight or the user experience may suffer.
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.l-sub-section
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:marked
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We also see that the `ngOnChanges` method is called in contradiction of the
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[incorrect API documentation](../api/core/DoCheck-interface.html).
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.l-main-section
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:marked
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## AfterView
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The *AfterView* sample explores the `AfterViewInit` and `AfterViewChecked` hooks that Angular calls
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*after* it creates a component's child views.
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Here's a child view that displays a hero's name in an input box:
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+makeExample('lifecycle-hooks/ts/app/after-view.component.ts', 'child-view', 'ChildComponent')(format=".")
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:marked
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The `AfterViewComponent` displays this child view *within its template*:
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+makeExample('lifecycle-hooks/ts/app/after-view.component.ts', 'template', 'AfterViewComponent (template)')(format=".")
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:marked
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The following hooks take action based on changing values *within the child view*
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which we can only reach by querying for the child view via the property decorated with
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[@ViewChild](../api/core/ViewChild-var.html).
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+makeExample('lifecycle-hooks/ts/app/after-view.component.ts', 'hooks', 'AfterViewComponent (class excerpts)')(format=".")
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.a(id="wait-a-tick")
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:marked
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### Abide by the unidirectional data flow rule
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The `doSomething` method updates the screen when the hero name exceeds 10 characters.
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+makeExample('lifecycle-hooks/ts/app/after-view.component.ts', 'do-something', 'AfterViewComponent (doSomething)')(format=".")
|
||
:marked
|
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Why does the `doSomething` method wait a tick before updating `comment`?
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Because we must adhere to Angular's unidirectional data flow rule which says that
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we may not update the view *after* it has been composed.
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Both hooks fire after the component's view has been composed.
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Angular throws an error if we update component's data-bound `comment` property immediately (try it!).
|
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block tick-methods
|
||
:marked
|
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The `LoggerService.tick` methods, which are implemented by a call to `setTimeout`, postpone the update one turn of the of the browser's JavaScript cycle ... and that's long enough.
|
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|
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:marked
|
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Here's *AfterView* in action
|
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figure.image-display
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img(src='/resources/images/devguide/lifecycle-hooks/after-view-anim.gif' alt="AfterView")
|
||
:marked
|
||
Notice that Angular frequently calls `AfterViewChecked`, often when there are no changes of interest.
|
||
Write lean hook methods to avoid performance problems.
|
||
|
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.l-main-section
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:marked
|
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## AfterContent
|
||
The *AfterContent* sample explores the `AfterContentInit` and `AfterContentChecked` hooks that Angular calls
|
||
*after* Angular projects external content into the component.
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||
|
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### Content projection
|
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*Content projection* is a way to import HTML content from outside the component and insert that content
|
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into the component's template in a designated spot.
|
||
|
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.l-sub-section
|
||
:marked
|
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Angular 1 developers know this technique as *transclusion*.
|
||
|
||
:marked
|
||
We'll illustrate with a variation on the [previous](#afterview) example
|
||
whose behavior and output is almost the same.
|
||
|
||
This time, instead of including the child view within the template, we'll import it from
|
||
the `AfterContentComponent`'s parent. Here's the parent's template.
|
||
+makeExample('lifecycle-hooks/ts/app/after-content.component.ts', 'parent-template', 'AfterContentParentComponent (template excerpt)')(format=".")
|
||
:marked
|
||
Notice that the `<my-child>` tag is tucked between the `<after-content>` tags.
|
||
We never put content between a component's element tags *unless we intend to project that content
|
||
into the component*.
|
||
|
||
Now look at the component's template:
|
||
+makeExample('lifecycle-hooks/ts/app/after-content.component.ts', 'template', 'AfterContentComponent (template)')(format=".")
|
||
:marked
|
||
The `<ng-content>` tag is a *placeholder* for the external content.
|
||
They tell Angular where to insert that content.
|
||
In this case, the projected content is the `<my-child>` from the parent.
|
||
figure.image-display
|
||
img(src='/resources/images/devguide/lifecycle-hooks/projected-child-view.png' width="230" alt="Projected Content")
|
||
:marked
|
||
.l-sub-section
|
||
:marked
|
||
The tell-tale signs of *content projection* are (a) HTML between component element tags
|
||
and (b) the presence of `<ng-content>` tags in the component's template.
|
||
:marked
|
||
### AfterContent hooks
|
||
*AfterContent* hooks are similar to the *AfterView* hooks. The key difference is the kind of child component
|
||
that we're looking for.
|
||
|
||
* The *AfterView* hooks concern `ViewChildren`, the child components whose element tags
|
||
appear *within* the component's template.
|
||
|
||
* The *AfterContent* hooks concern `ContentChildren`, the child components that Angular
|
||
projected into the component.
|
||
|
||
The following *AfterContent* hooks take action based on changing values in a *content child*
|
||
which we can only reach by querying for it via the property decorated with
|
||
[@ContentChild](../api/core/ContentChild-var.html).
|
||
|
||
+makeExample('lifecycle-hooks/ts/app/after-content.component.ts', 'hooks', 'AfterContentComponent (class excerpts)')(format=".")
|
||
|
||
:marked
|
||
### No unidirectional flow worries
|
||
|
||
This component's `doSomething` method update's the component's data-bound `comment` property immediately.
|
||
There's no [need to wait](#wait-a-tick).
|
||
|
||
Recall that Angular calls both *AfterContent* hooks before calling either of the *AfterView* hooks.
|
||
Angular completes composition of the projected content *before* finishing the composition of this component's view.
|
||
We still have a window of opportunity to modify that view.
|