What is the difference between subscribing to subject and subscribing to asObservable?

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What is the difference between the following?

 this.subject.subscribe((data) => this.datas.push(data));

 this.subject.asObservable().subscribe((data) => this.datas.push(data));

Seems like both are same!

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score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 24 '21 at 14:16

From the subscription side, there is no difference; emissions are received exactly the same.

asObservable() is used to hide the Observer behavior from consumers, preventing them from nexting values into the subject.

In angular, you'll see this in a lot services where you want consumers of the service to have access to the emitted values, but you don't want them to be able to call .next on the subject:

class SomeService {
    private subject$ = new Subject();
    public observable$ = this.subject$.asObservable();
}

What is the difference between subscribing to subject and subscribing to asObservable?

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