Toggling Templates Dynamically
Learn how to toggle templates dynamically based on roles in Angular.
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We have already seen various use cases for attribute directives. In this lesson, we will learn about structural directives that are not so widely used. A typical scenario in enterprise Angular applications is that users should have access to certain application parts according to their role. We may think that we could use the ngIf
built-in directive for this. It would be valid for a simple case, but usually, checking a role involves calling some service to get the current user and extracting their role. We could create a more specific structural directive:
Run the following Angular CLI command to create a
permission
directive:
Note: The command below is for creating a directive on the local machine using the Angular CLI.
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