Angular 4/5/6 Global Variables

Solution 1:

You can access Globals entity from any point of your App via Angular dependency injection. If you want to output Globals.role value in some component's template, you should inject Globals through the component's constructor like any service:

// hello.component.ts
import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { Globals } from './globals';

@Component({
  selector: 'hello',
  template: 'The global role is {{globals.role}}',
  providers: [ Globals ] // this depends on situation, see below
})

export class HelloComponent {
  constructor(public globals: Globals) {}
}

I provided Globals in the HelloComponent, but instead it could be provided in some HelloComponent's parent component or even in AppModule. It will not matter until your Globals has only static data that could not be changed (say, constants only). But if it's not true and for example different components/services might want to change that data, then the Globals must be a singleton. In that case it should be provided in the topmost level of the hierarchy where it is going to be used. Let's say this is AppModule:

import { Globals } from './globals'

@NgModule({
  // ... imports, declarations etc
  providers: [
    // ... other global providers
    Globals // so do not provide it into another components/services if you want it to be a singleton
  ]
})

Also, it's impossible to use var the way you did, it should be

// globals.ts
import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';

@Injectable()
export class Globals {
  role: string = 'test';
}

Update

At last, I created a simple demo on stackblitz, where single Globals is being shared between 3 components and one of them can change the value of Globals.role.

Solution 2:

I use environment for that. It works automatically and you don't have to create new injectable service and most usefull for me, don't need to import via constructor.

1) Create environment variable in your environment.ts

export const environment = {
    ...
    // runtime variables
    isContentLoading: false,
    isDeployNeeded: false
}

2) Import environment.ts in *.ts file and create public variable (i.e. "env") to be able to use in html template

import { environment } from 'environments/environment';

@Component(...)
export class TestComponent {
    ...
    env = environment;
}

3) Use it in template...

<app-spinner *ngIf='env.isContentLoading'></app-spinner>

in *.ts ...

env.isContentLoading = false 

(or just environment.isContentLoading in case you don't need it for template)

You can create your own set of globals within environment.ts like so:

export const globals = {
    isContentLoading: false,
    isDeployNeeded: false
}

and import directly these variables (y)