How to create and fire a custom event in angular

Question

I'm new in Angular and I've read about event binding so I can do something like this:

<button (click)="doSomething()"></button>

I'd like to know if it's possible to create a custom event and do the same thing. Let's say that I want to have a custom event like: deleteItem, is it possible to do something like this? And how?

<my-component (deleteItem)="doSomething()"></my-component>

Answer 1

You should check out Angular's documentations example for parent listens to child event:

You declare a class property with the @Output() decorator and instantiate it to a new EventEmitter instance.

Example from the Angular docs

import { Component, EventEmitter, Input, Output } from '@angular/core';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-voter',
  template: `
    <h4>{{name}}</h4>
    <button (click)="vote(true)"  [disabled]="didVote">Agree</button>
    <button (click)="vote(false)" [disabled]="didVote">Disagree</button>
  `
})
export class VoterComponent {
  @Input()  name: string;
  @Output() voted = new EventEmitter<boolean>();
  didVote = false;

  vote(agreed: boolean) {
    this.voted.emit(agreed);
    this.didVote = true;
  }
}

Remember it is good practice to always add generic typing to the EventEmitter if it emits a value.

If an event emits a boolean value you should instantiate it with @Output() eventName = new EventEmitter<boolean>();

The component above could be used in a parent component with <app-voter (voted)="handleVote($event)"></app-voter>

Answer 2

EventEmitter can used to create your own custom events, eventemitter are objects in angular framework.

@Output() deleteItem= new EventEmitter<{itemName:string}>(); ItemName=''; this.deleteItem.emit({ItemName=this.itemName});