Discussion on: The Principles for Writing Awesome Angular Components

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Replies for: I find using input output for view only components to be simpler. If I have a parent component whos child component is a button. The input could be...

Giancarlo Buomprisco • Oct 9 '19

I agree, your comment is on point!

I would stress that ideally a dumb component should never access a service for state.

Of course I am quite sure there are situations where a service could be needed

Brooks Forsyth • Oct 9 '19

haha I had dumb component written but changed it to view only component. I felt as if dumb may be offensive. Im not sure why components don't have feelings =)

Andrew Vitale • Oct 10 '19

Thanks to you both. The considerations for I/O vs a service make much more sense to me now. Like most thing in programming (and life), it depends!