When working with Angular Routing, it’s very useful to be able to respond to routing events – the most obvious and useful being when the route changes. In AngularJS this was accomplished with by attaching a callback function to one the “$routeChange” events on the $scope. In Angular the concept is similar but has some key (and in my opinion, useful) differences.
Once you have a reference to the Router for your application you can subscribe to its “events” observable. This observable will emit a route-event whenever applicable that you can listen for. Being an observable you can subscribe to it in multiple places, filter for the specific event you want, transform the raw event, or anything else you could do with an observable.
On a recent Angular 4 project I had the need to use some custom form validations. Out of the box, Angular 4 contains validators for required, email, pattern, and min/max length, and it is possible to write your own validators as well. In particular, the custom validation I needed to do was verify that two fields were equal. For example, a form where the user enters a phone number, and then confirms the phone number in a second form field. The custom validation would verify that the two text inputs had the same value.
Our company often does Angular projects so I’ve done a number of Angular 4 projects already and, currently, it’s a love/hate relationship. I wanted to try React so I wrote a side-project that uses React with Redux. This is my high-level comparison between the two.