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hey everyone welcome back to another video by simply learn in this video we're going to learn all about angular pipes so now imagine if you could change the way certain information looked on the screen this could be with respect to styling size or even format you could do this with the help of pipes now angular pipes allow its users to change the format in which data is being displayed on the screen we learn about this topic in detail so but before beginning if you haven't subscribed to our channel already make sure to hit the subscribe button and the bell icon to never miss an update all right so here's what's in store for you so we'll see what exactly angular pipes are then we'll understand how to use built-in pipes in angular then we'll create some custom pipes and finally we'll understand what pure and impure pipes are so let's begin what are angular pipes now as mentioned earlier pipes transform data you can think of this as makeup rooms where you can beautify the data into a more desirable format they also do not alter the data but change how they appear so pipes are simple functions that accept an input value process and return a transformed value angular supports several built-in pipes we'll learn about them in the coming section however you can also create custom pipes some key features of pipes include the following that is pipes are defined using the pipe symbol pipes can be chained with other pipes and lastly pipes can be provided with arguments by using the colon sign so moving on let's see how built-in pipes and angular work now angular provides several built-in pipes to beautify the data being shown on the user interface now you can see we have the date pipe which formats a date value we have the upper case pipe the transforms text to uppercase the lowercase pipe that transforms text to lowercase we have the currency pipe we have the decimal pipe that transforms the number into a string with a decimal point and then we have the percent pipe that transforms a number to a percentage now let's see how these built-in pipes are used in angular so for that let's head to our editor that is vs code so here i've created a folder for pipes and then created a component called pipes again and inside the pipes.component.ts file i'm creating two properties for date and name all right so here let's just create them saying date today string you just type string then we have a name again of type string all right and within this i'm going to say this dot date today equals new date dot 2 d string all right and then i'm going to say this dot name equals simply long so here the date today property will hold today's date all right and according to our requirements we can change the way it is displayed on the ui so for that let's go to the component.html file [Music] and here let me just display h1 date which is basically today's date and i'm going to be interpolating the property here date today and i'm just going to display the date in its normal format next thing i'm going to do date pipe using the date pipe i can say date today date in uppercase all right and then another way i can display it is i can say date pipe date today date in short you'll see this in the output and then i can say lowercase and then finally for name i can just say name i'm just going to display them in uppercase and i'm going to slice it so let's say name uppercase all right and then i'm going to say name and i'm going to slice it so six all right so now let's save this and have a look at our browser now here you can see that date has been displayed in the normal format first and then in the upper case and you can see that it does not display the day of the week and finally when you use the short pipe it makes sure that it's displayed in this format and finally name is displayed in uppercase and when i slice it it is displayed from the sixth character all right so that is how you make use of built-in pipes so moving on next up let's have a look at creating custom pipes now angular pipes are typescript classes with the at pipe decorator so the decorator has a name property in its metadata that specifies the pipe and how it is used alright so the general steps that you need to take to create custom pipes include first you have to create a typescript class with an export keyword then you can decorate it with the add pipe decorator and pass the name property to it then you have to implement the pipe transform interface in the class next up they have to return the transform data with the pipe and lastly we have to add this pipe class to the declarations area of the module where you want to use it so alternatively you can use a simple command that is ng pipe and name of the pipe once you run the command two files are created one is the spec.ts file and one is the dot ts file all right so now let's have a look at the editor and see how to create these custom pipes so here i am creating a pipe so let's see ng g pipe and the name i'm giving is custom pipe yeah all right so you can see two uh files have been created we have the spector ts and the dot ts file so now here in our custom pipe dot ts file i'm just going to create my own custom pipe you can see that the pipe transform interface has been added here and then the transform uh method is used to transform the data right so what i'm going to be doing is i'll write the code to reverse a string okay so uh for that i'll write down the code here so within my pipe transform interface i'm going to first create a value which is going to be the n value which is basically the transformed value and it is initialized to string all right and then we have the transform method i'm just going to change unknown to any now what i'm going to be doing is this dot n value equals value dot i'm going to make use of the split method [Music] and then i'm going to make use of the reverse method and finally i'm going to join it all right and then i'm just going to return this dot n value and back in my component.html file i'll just say h one again i'll say the reverse of simply learn is let's say simply learn and then pass the custom pipe all right so basically it has to display the reverse of the string simply learn so let's save this and have a look at the browser all right here we go so the reverse of the string is being displayed on the screen so this is how you can make use of custom pipes you can create pipes according to your requirements uh remember that it does not change the data at all it only displays it in a different format altogether all right so now moving on let's have a look at pure and impure pipes now pipes in angular are classified into pure and impure vibes all right now pure pipes use pure functions as a result of this the pipe doesn't use any internal state and the output of the pipe remains the same as long as the parameters remain the same okay so angular calls the pipe only when it detects a change in the parameters that are being passed and a single instance of the pure pipe is used throughout all the components talking about impure pipes an impure pipe is called for every change detection cycle in the input fields multiple pipe instances are created for these pipes now inputs passed to these pipes can be mutable and by default all pipes are pure pipes however you can specify impure pipes using the pure property all right so let me just show that to you back in our pipe.ts file here you can always specify if it is pure or impure so just say pure you can set it to true or false so when you say true it means it's a pure pipe and if it's false then it's an impure pipe by default all the pipes that you create are pure pipes so with that we come to the end of this session if you have any doubts or queries regarding this topic let us know in the comment section below so i hope you enjoyed this tutorial and watch out for more videos from us until then keep learning and stay tuned to simply learn hi there if you like 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Length: 11min 13sec (673 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 01 2021