How to create custom pipes in Angular

While working with Angular, The situation occurs many times to change the format of the data we are trying to show in HTML template. There are some in-built pipes provided by angular itself like below:

1. DatePipe (for parsing Date objects)
2. UpperCasePipe (for uppercase-ing Strings)
3. LowerCasePipe (for lowercase-ing Strings)
4. CurrencyPipe (for formatting currencies)
5. AsyncPipe (for unwrapping asynchronous values, such as Observables!)

Apart from the in-built pipes, Custom pipes can also be created to achieve any specific requirement.

Here I am going to explain one example to show you how a custom pipe can be created. Here we will use the created pipe to reverse any number.

Let's Get Started.

Step 1: Create pipe(a file named reverse-string.pipe.ts)

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

@Pipe({name: 'reverseString'})
export class ReverseString implements PipeTransform {
transform(value: string): string {
let newStr: string = "";
for (var i = value.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
newStr += value.charAt(i);
}
return newStr;
}
}

Step 2: Add this pipe in app.module.ts file.

import { ReverseStr } from './reverse-string.pipe.ts';
.......
......

@NgModule({
declarations: [
........,
ReverseStr,
.......
],
......
......
})

Step 3: Use the pipe in template

item.first_name | ReverseString

Pipe with Multi arguments

In any case we want to append/ or add deduct some value from the available data then multiple arguments can also be passed using below way:

myData | date:'fullDate':'arg1':'arg2'

export class DatePipe implements PipeTransform {

transform(value:any, arg1:any, arg2:any):any {
...
}

Interested to find more blogs on Angular, Read at https://jsonworld.com/blog