javascript - How to listen for value changes from class property TypeScript - Angular

Question

In AngularJS, we can listen variable change using $watch, $digest... which is no longer possible with the new versions of Angular (5, 6).

In Angular, this behaviour is now part of the component lifecycle.

I checked on the official documention, articles and especially on Angular 5 change detection on mutable objects, to find out how to listen to a variable (class property) change in a TypeScript class / Angular

What is proposed today is :

import { OnChanges, SimpleChanges, DoCheck } from '@angular/core';


@Component({
  selector: 'my-comp',
  templateUrl: 'my-comp.html',
  styleUrls: ['my-comp.css'],
  inputs:['input1', 'input2']
})
export class MyClass implements OnChanges, DoCheck, OnInit{

  //I can track changes for this properties
  @Input() input1:string;
  @Input() input2:string;
  
  //Properties what I want to track !
  myProperty_1: boolean
  myProperty_2: ['A', 'B', 'C'];
  myProperty_3: MysObject;

  constructor() { }

  ngOnInit() { }

  //Solution 1 - fired when Angular detects changes to the @Input properties
  ngOnChanges(changes: SimpleChanges) {
    //Action for change
  }

  //Solution 2 - Where Angular fails to detect the changes to the input property
  //the DoCheck allows us to implement our custom change detection
  ngDoCheck() {
    //Action for change
  }
}

Answer 1

You can still check component's field members value change by KeyValueDiffers via DoCheck lifehook.

import { DoCheck, KeyValueDiffers, KeyValueDiffer } from '@angular/core';

differ: KeyValueDiffer<string, any>;
constructor(private differs: KeyValueDiffers) {
  this.differ = this.differs.find({}).create();
}

ngDoCheck() {
  const change = this.differ.diff(this);
  if (change) {
    change.forEachChangedItem(item => {
      console.log('item changed', item);
    });
  }
}

see demo.