Is it possible to use pipe in typescript component or service class?

Question

In v15 I bootstrap the app component using bootstrapApplication.

Inside the ts I import AppHeaderComponent and write it in imports section. The AppHeaderComponent inject foo = inject(FooService); . The FooService is inject BazPipe. BazPipe is contain the following pipe (with standalone is true):

import { Pipe, PipeTransform } from '@angular/core';

@Pipe({
  name: 'baz',
  standalone: true,
})
export class BazPipe implements PipeTransform {
  constructor() {}

  transform(value) {
    return value;
  }
}

Why angular throw error in the console?

ERROR
Error: R3InjectorError(Environment Injector)[FooService -> BazPipe -> BazPipe]:
NullInjectorError: No provider for BazPipe!

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Answer 1

If you want to resolve pipe using dependency injection you need to provide BazPipe as provider in root component

bootstrapApplication(AppComponent,{  providers:[BazPipe]});

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Answer 2

You cannot use pipe as injectable service class. Pipe is like the component class, should be used directly in place and does not participate in DI. But you can do this for use pipe everywhere in code with a static method:

@Pipe({
  name: 'baz',
  standalone: true,
})
export class BazPipe implements PipeTransform {
  static transform(value) {
    return value;
  }

  transform(value) {
    return BazPipe.transform(value);
  }
}

Answer 3

You CAN use pipe in DI, you just need to provide them in module, but I wouldn't suggest you that because there are big issue with pipe providers: they can't be providedIn: 'root'. Why is this a problem, if you could just provide the pipe in your root module? Well, after you providing something manually in root module this thing will not be tree-shacked and will be always in your main.js bundle.

So there are 2 possible solutions:

• Create static method in your pipe and use this static method where you need in your code (as was mentioned by Anton Marinenko).
• Move pipe logic to a service and use this service in components and other services.

I should also mention that I have faced the same problem with Angular CurrencyPipe which I wanted to use in my service that is providedIn: 'root' since CurrencyPipe has no static method or service I've ended up providing this pipe in my app.module.

Answer 4

You can simply add @Injectable({ providedIn: 'root' }) to the pipe and use it as a service.