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Dependency Injection

Dependency injection library for JavaScript and TypeScript in 5.2K. It is an extraction of the Angular’s dependency injection which means that it’s feature complete, fast, reliable and well tested.

Why not Angular version 5 and above?

Angular version 5 deprecated the ReflectiveInjector API and introduced StaticInjector. In short, the dependency injection in the newest versions of Angular will happen entirely compile-time so reflection will not be necessary.

However, if you want to use dependency injection in your Node.js, Vue, React, Vanilla JS, TypeScript, etc. application you won’t be able to take advantage of StaticInjector the way that Angular will because your application won’t be compatible with Angular compiler.

This means that if you need dependency injection outside of Angular @angular/core is not an option. In such case, use injection-js for fast, small, reliable, high-quality, well designed and well tested solution.

How to use?

$ npm i injection-js
# OR
$ yarn add injection-js

Note:

For ES5 Class syntax and TypeScript you need a polyfill for the Reflect API. You can use:

Also for TypeScript you will need to enable experimentalDecorators and emitDecoratorMetadata flags within your tsconfig.json

TypeScript

import 'reflect-metadata';
import { ReflectiveInjector, Injectable, Injector } from 'injection-js';

class Http {}

@Injectable()
class Service {
  constructor(private http: Http) {}
}

@Injectable()
class Service2 {
  constructor(private injector: Injector) {}

  getService(): void {
    console.log(this.injector.get(Service) instanceof Service);
  }

  createChildInjector(): void {
    const childInjector = ReflectiveInjector.resolveAndCreate([Service], this.injector);
  }
}

const injector = ReflectiveInjector.resolveAndCreate([Service, Http]);

console.log(injector.get(Service) instanceof Service);

ES6

const { Inject, ReflectiveInjector } = require('injection-js');

class Http {}

class Service {
  static get parameters() {
    return [new Inject(Http)];
  }

  constructor(http) {
    this.http = http;
  }
}

const injector = ReflectiveInjector.resolveAndCreate([Http, Service]);

console.log(injector.get(Service) instanceof Service);

ES5

require('reflect-metadata');
var di = require('injection-js');

var Http = di.Class({
  constructor: function() {},
});

var Service = di.Class({
  constructor: [
    Http,
    function(http) {
      this.http = http;
    },
  ],
});

var injector = di.ReflectiveInjector.resolveAndCreate([Http, Service]);

console.log(injector.get(Service) instanceof Service);

API

For full documentation check Angular DI docs:

Ecosystem

This is a list of libraries that are using injection-js. If you have a suggestion on what to add, please don’t hesitate to submit a PR.

Libraries

License

MIT