Understanding, creating and subscribing to observables in Angular

Luuk Gruijs
5 min readAug 19, 2017

When version 2 of Angular came out, it introduced us to observables. The Observable isn’t an Angular specific feature, but a new standard for managing async data that will be included in the ES7 release. Angular uses observables extensively in the event system and the HTTP service. Getting your head around observables can be quite a thing, therefore i’m here to explain it the easy way.

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