Using @View annotation vs specifying parameters in the @Component annotation

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In the Angular.io docs it says that "Each Angular component requires a single @Component and at least one @View annotation." LINK But even the example that it has, does not use an @View annotation.

My question is, what is the difference between using @View or specifying the parameters (templateUrl, StyleUrls, Etc.) in the @Component annotation?

Thanks guys!

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33401442/angular-2-0-difference-view-component — Eric Martinez, Nov 09 '15 at 20:45
`@View()` is about to be removed https://github.com/angular/angular/pull/7495 — Günter Zöchbauer, Mar 09 '16 at 20:29

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 09 '15 at 20:52

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As you can see here - @View is now optional (the docs are outdated).

Both options are the same - using @View as a separate annotation (for later use of different view per component) or using 'template' etc from within @Component annotation.

Hope that answers your question.

answered Nov 09 '15 at 20:52

Yaniv Efraim

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Thanks @YanivEfraim! So the docs are out of date. Good to know. Yeah, because I prefer specifying all of my templates and such inside my Component annotation. But then I read on the docs that I had to use View. So I got a little confused. Thanks for the help! ;) – Zorthgo Nov 10 '15 at 03:05
Here's were/when the change was made. Ref: https://github.com/angular/angular/pull/4566 – Evan Plaice Feb 21 '16 at 07:50

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:09

As i read from the officials of angular2 there is nothing major difference between these two. @View is optional. Still there is something which differentiate these two in the future:

@Component(/* ... */)
@View({
  media: 'Desktop',
  template: 'Template for desktop'
})
@View({
  media: 'Mobile',
  template: 'Template for Mobile'
})
extends class Component_Name() {}

This feature is not implemented yet.but may be used in the future as said by @alexpods here. i hope this will clear the difference upto some extent.

Using @View annotation vs specifying parameters in the @Component annotation

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