Angular 2 – multiple instance of service created

update Angular >= 2.0.0-RC.6

Don’t add the service to the providers of the component.
Instead add it to

@NgModule({ providers: [...], ...

(of a module that is not lazy loaded because lazy loaded modules introduce their own scope)

@Component ({
    selector : 'Sub-Component',
    template : `<hr>
            This is the Sub-Component !
            <BR>
            StateService Log : 
            <pre>{{ _stateService.log }}</pre>
            <button (click)="WriteToLog ()">Write to log</button>
            `,
    // providers : [StateService] <== remove
})

Angular <=2.0.0-RC.5

If you add it on a component you get a new service instance for each component instance. Instead add it to

bootstrap(AppComponent, [StateService]);

You can have more fine-grained control by adding it to a single component, then this component and all children get the same instance injected but otherwise the application works with the instance created by bootstrap(). This is the “hierarchical” in Angulars DI.

See also
http://blog.thoughtram.io/angular/2015/05/18/dependency-injection-in-angular-2.html
http://blog.thoughtram.io/angular/2015/09/17/resolve-service-dependencies-in-angular-2.html

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