Data Module

~/src/app/data

The data module is a top level directory and holds the types (models/entities) and services (repositories) for data consumed by the application.

By default there are two subdirectories:

~/src/app/data
  /types
  /service

The types directory holds the class definition files for data structures. An example data structure:

export class Project {
  link: string;
  title: string;
  thumbnail: string;
}

The service directory holds the services for fetching data. The service files are not necessarily a 1:1 match with types files. An example service file:

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

import { Project } from '../types/project';
import { ApiService } from './api.service';

const routes = {
    projects: '/projects',
    project: (id: number) =>  `/projects/${id}`
};

@Injectable({
  providedIn: 'root'
})
export class ProjectService {
    constructor(
      private apiService: ApiService) {}

    getAll(): Observable<Array<Project>> {
        return this.apiService.get(routes.projects);
    }

    getSingle(id: number): Observable<Project> {
        return this.apiService.get(routes.project(id));
    }
}

Multiple Data Sources

If your application consumes data from more than one source then the data directory should be restructured to contain subdirectories for each data source. Do not create multiple modules for each data source:

~/src/app/data
  /data-source-one
    /types
    /service
  /data-source-two
    /types
    /service
  /data.module.ts

Schema Naming Standard

A type file is very much like an entity file in an Object Relational Mapper. This type file is central to your application’s consumption of data and therefore does not need cursory decorators such as calling it ProjectSchema or ProjectModel. Schemas are special because they are the only plain-named class in the application.

Install

ng generate module Data

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