Angular 5 Firebase CRUD operations with AngularFire2 v5

In this tutorial, we’re gonna create a simple Angular 5 App that does CRUD to create, read, update, delete data to/from Firebase Realtime Database using AngularFire2.

I. Technology

– Angular 5
– AngularFire2 5.0

II. How to do

1. Set up the Firebase Project & Install AngularFire2

Please visit this post to know step by step.

2. Object

2.1 Create an object binding/ Retrieve

item: FirebaseObjectObservable<any>;
// db: AngularFireDatabase
this.item = db.object('item').valueChanges();

item: FirebaseObjectObservable<any>;

// db: AngularFireDatabase

this.item = db.object('item').valueChanges();

2.2 Create

// db: AngularFireDatabase
const itemRef = db.object('item');

// set() for destructive updates
itemRef.set({ name: 'javasampleapproach'});

// db: AngularFireDatabase

const itemRef = db.object('item');

// set() for destructive updates

itemRef.set({ name: 'javasampleapproach'});

2.3 Update

// db: AngularFireDatabase
const itemRef = db.object('item');
itemRef.update({ url: 'grokonez.com'});

// db: AngularFireDatabase

const itemRef = db.object('item');

itemRef.update({ url: 'grokonez.com'});

2.4 Delete

// db: AngularFireDatabase
const itemRef = db.object('item');
itemRef.remove();

// db: AngularFireDatabase

const itemRef = db.object('item');

itemRef.remove();

3. List of Objects

3.1 Create a list binding/ Retrieve

– Returns an Observable of data as a synchronized array of JSON objects without snapshot metadata. It is simple to render to a view:

items: Observable<any[]>;
// db: AngularFireDatabase
this.items = db.list('items').valueChanges();

items: Observable<any[]>;

// db: AngularFireDatabase

this.items = db.list('items').valueChanges();

– Returns an Observable of data as a synchronized array of AngularFireAction<DatabaseSnapshot>[] with metadata (the underyling DatabaseReference and snapshot key):

items: Observable<any[]>;
// db: AngularFireDatabase
this.items = db.list('items').snapshotChanges();

items: Observable<any[]>;

// db: AngularFireDatabase

this.items = db.list('items').snapshotChanges();

3.2 Create

// db: AngularFireDatabase
const itemsRef = db.list('items');
itemsRef.push({ site: 'grokonez.com' });

// db: AngularFireDatabase

const itemsRef = db.list('items');

itemsRef.push({ site: 'grokonez.com' });

3.3 Update

// set(): destructive update
// delete everything currently in place, then save the new value
const itemsRef = db.list('items'); // db: AngularFireDatabase
itemsRef.set('key', { url: 'jsa.com' });

// update(): non-destructive update
// only updates the values specified
const itemsRef = db.list('items'); // db: AngularFireDatabase
itemsRef.update('key', { url: 'javasampleapp.com' });

// set(): destructive update

// delete everything currently in place, then save the new value

const itemsRef = db.list('items'); // db: AngularFireDatabase

itemsRef.set('key', { url: 'jsa.com' });

// update(): non-destructive update

// only updates the values specified

const itemsRef = db.list('items'); // db: AngularFireDatabase

itemsRef.update('key', { url: 'javasampleapp.com' });

3.4 Delete

// db: AngularFireDatabase
const itemsRef = db.list('items');
itemsRef.remove('key');

// delete entire list
itemsRef.remove();

// db: AngularFireDatabase

const itemsRef = db.list('items');

itemsRef.remove('key');

// delete entire list

itemsRef.remove();

III. Practice

1. Project Overview

1.1 Goal

We will build an Angular 5 Firebase App using AngularFire2 that can:
– add/remove Customer
– show all Customers
– update Customer’s status

angular-5-firebase-crud-goal

1.2 Structure

angular-5-firebase-crud-structure

2. Step by step

2.1 Set up the Firebase Project & Install AngularFire2

Please visit this post to know step by step.

2.2 Add Firebase config to environments variable

Open /src/environments/environment.ts, add your Firebase configuration that we have saved when Popup window was shown:

export const environment = {
  production: false,
  firebase: {
    apiKey: 'xxx',
    authDomain: 'jsa-angular5.firebaseapp.com',
    databaseURL: 'https://jsa-angular5.firebaseio.com',
    projectId: 'jsa-angular5',
    storageBucket: '',
    messagingSenderId: 'xxx'
  }
};

export const environment = {

production: false,

firebase: {

apiKey: 'xxx',

authDomain: 'jsa-angular5.firebaseapp.com',

databaseURL: 'https://jsa-angular5.firebaseio.com',

projectId: 'jsa-angular5',

storageBucket: '',

messagingSenderId: 'xxx'

}

};

2.3 Setup @NgModule

import { AppRoutingModule } from './app-routing.module';
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { FormsModule } from '@angular/forms';

import { AngularFireModule } from 'angularfire2';
import { AngularFireDatabaseModule } from 'angularfire2/database';

import { environment } from '../environments/environment';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';

import { CustomersListComponent } from './customers/customers-list/customers-list.component';
import { CustomerDetailsComponent } from './customers/customer-details/customer-details.component';
import { CreateCustomerComponent } from './customers/create-customer/create-customer.component';

import { CustomerService } from './customers/customer.service';

@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    AppComponent,
    CustomersListComponent,
    CustomerDetailsComponent,
    CreateCustomerComponent
  ],
  imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    FormsModule,
    AppRoutingModule,
    AngularFireModule.initializeApp(environment.firebase),
    AngularFireDatabaseModule, // for database
  ],
  providers: [CustomerService],
  bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})

export class AppModule { }

import { AppRoutingModule } from './app-routing.module';

import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';

import { FormsModule } from '@angular/forms';

import { AngularFireModule } from 'angularfire2';

import { AngularFireDatabaseModule } from 'angularfire2/database';

import { environment } from '../environments/environment';

import { AppComponent } from './app.component';

import { CustomersListComponent } from './customers/customers-list/customers-list.component';

import { CustomerDetailsComponent } from './customers/customer-details/customer-details.component';

import { CreateCustomerComponent } from './customers/create-customer/create-customer.component';

import { CustomerService } from './customers/customer.service';

@NgModule({

declarations: [

AppComponent,

CustomersListComponent,

CustomerDetailsComponent,

CreateCustomerComponent

imports: [

BrowserModule,

FormsModule,

AppRoutingModule,

AngularFireModule.initializeApp(environment.firebase),

AngularFireDatabaseModule, // for database

providers: [CustomerService],

bootstrap: [AppComponent]

})

export class AppModule { }

2.4 Model Class

export class Customer {
  key: string;
  name: string;
  age: number;
  active = true;
}

export class Customer {

key: string;

name: string;

age: number;

active = true;

}

2.5 Service

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { AngularFireDatabase, AngularFireList } from 'angularfire2/database';
import { Customer } from './customer';
import { QueryFn } from 'angularfire2/database/interfaces';

@Injectable()
export class CustomerService {

  private dbPath = '/customers';

  customersRef: AngularFireList<Customer> = null;

  constructor(private db: AngularFireDatabase) {
    this.customersRef = db.list(this.dbPath);
  }

  createCustomer(customer: Customer): void {
    this.customersRef.push(customer);
  }

  updateCustomer(key: string, value: any): void {
    this.customersRef.update(key, value).catch(error => this.handleError(error));
  }

  deleteCustomer(key: string): void {
    this.customersRef.remove(key).catch(error => this.handleError(error));
  }

  getCustomersList(): AngularFireList<Customer> {
    return this.customersRef;
  }

  deleteAll(): void {
    this.customersRef.remove().catch(error => this.handleError(error));
  }

  private handleError(error) {
    console.log(error);
  }
}

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';

import { AngularFireDatabase, AngularFireList } from 'angularfire2/database';

import { Customer } from './customer';

import { QueryFn } from 'angularfire2/database/interfaces';

@Injectable()

export class CustomerService {

private dbPath = '/customers';

customersRef: AngularFireList<Customer> = null;

constructor(private db: AngularFireDatabase) {

this.customersRef = db.list(this.dbPath);

}

createCustomer(customer: Customer): void {

this.customersRef.push(customer);

}

updateCustomer(key: string, value: any): void {

this.customersRef.update(key, value).catch(error => this.handleError(error));

}

deleteCustomer(key: string): void {

this.customersRef.remove(key).catch(error => this.handleError(error));

}

getCustomersList(): AngularFireList<Customer> {

return this.customersRef;

}

deleteAll(): void {

this.customersRef.remove().catch(error => this.handleError(error));

}

private handleError(error) {

console.log(error);

}

2.6 Customer Details Compoment

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

import { CustomerService } from '../customer.service';
import { Customer } from '../customer';

@Component({
  selector: 'customer-details',
  templateUrl: './customer-details.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./customer-details.component.css']
})
export class CustomerDetailsComponent implements OnInit {

  @Input() customer: Customer;

  constructor(private customerService: CustomerService) { }

  ngOnInit() {
  }

  updateActive(isActive: boolean) {
    this.customerService.updateCustomer(this.customer.key, { active: isActive });
  }

  deleteCustomer() {
    this.customerService.deleteCustomer(this.customer.key);
  }

}

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

import { CustomerService } from '../customer.service';

import { Customer } from '../customer';

@Component({

selector: 'customer-details',

templateUrl: './customer-details.component.html',

styleUrls: ['./customer-details.component.css']

})

export class CustomerDetailsComponent implements OnInit {

@Input() customer: Customer;

constructor(private customerService: CustomerService) { }

ngOnInit() {

}

updateActive(isActive: boolean) {

this.customerService.updateCustomer(this.customer.key, { active: isActive });

}

deleteCustomer() {

this.customerService.deleteCustomer(this.customer.key);

}

customer-details.component.html:

<div *ngIf="customer">
	<div>
		<label>First Name: </label> {{customer.name}}
	</div>
	<div>
		<label>Age: </label> {{customer.age}}
	</div>
	<div>
		<label>Active: </label> {{customer.active}}
	</div>

	<span class="button is-small btn-primary" *ngIf='customer.active' (click)='updateActive(false)'>Inactive</span>
	
	<span class="button is-small btn-primary" *ngIf='!customer.active' (click)='updateActive(true)'>Active</span>

	<span class="button is-small btn-danger" (click)='deleteCustomer()'>Delete</span>
	
	<hr/>
</div>

<div>

<label>First Name: </label> {{customer.name}}

</div>

<div>

<label>Age: </label> {{customer.age}}

</div>

<div>

<label>Active: </label> {{customer.active}}

</div>

<span class="button is-small btn-primary" *ngIf='customer.active' (click)='updateActive(false)'>Inactive</span>

<span class="button is-small btn-primary" *ngIf='!customer.active' (click)='updateActive(true)'>Active</span>

<span class="button is-small btn-danger" (click)='deleteCustomer()'>Delete</span>

<hr/>

</div>

2.7 Customers List Component

import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';

import { CustomerService } from '../customer.service';
import { Customer } from '../customer';

@Component({
  selector: 'customers-list',
  templateUrl: './customers-list.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./customers-list.component.css']
})
export class CustomersListComponent implements OnInit {

  customers: any;

  constructor(private customerService: CustomerService) { }

  ngOnInit() {
    this.getCustomersList();
  }

  getCustomersList() {
    // Use snapshotChanges().map() to store the key
    this.customerService.getCustomersList().snapshotChanges().map(changes => {
      return changes.map(c => ({ key: c.payload.key, ...c.payload.val() }));
    }).subscribe(customers => {
      this.customers = customers;
    });
  }

  deleteCustomers() {
    this.customerService.deleteAll();
  }
}

import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';

import { CustomerService } from '../customer.service';

import { Customer } from '../customer';

@Component({

selector: 'customers-list',

templateUrl: './customers-list.component.html',

styleUrls: ['./customers-list.component.css']

})

export class CustomersListComponent implements OnInit {

customers: any;

constructor(private customerService: CustomerService) { }

ngOnInit() {

this.getCustomersList();

}

getCustomersList() {

// Use snapshotChanges().map() to store the key

this.customerService.getCustomersList().snapshotChanges().map(changes => {

return changes.map(c => ({ key: c.payload.key, ...c.payload.val() }));

}).subscribe(customers => {

this.customers = customers;

});

}

deleteCustomers() {

this.customerService.deleteAll();

}

customers-list.component.html:

<h1>Customers</h1>
<div *ngFor="let customer of customers" style="width: 300px;">
	<customer-details [customer]='customer'></customer-details>
</div>
<div style="margin-top:20px;">
	<button type="button" class="button btn-danger" (click)='deleteCustomers()'>Delete All</button>
</div>

<h1>Customers</h1>

<customer-details [customer]='customer'></customer-details>

</div>

<button type="button" class="button btn-danger" (click)='deleteCustomers()'>Delete All</button>

</div>

2.8 Create Customer Component

import {Component, OnInit} from '@angular/core';
import {FormsModule} from '@angular/forms';

import {Customer} from '../customer';
import {CustomerService} from '../customer.service';

@Component({
  selector: 'create-customer',
  templateUrl: './create-customer.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./create-customer.component.css']
})
export class CreateCustomerComponent implements OnInit {

  customer: Customer = new Customer();
  submitted = false;

  constructor(private customerService: CustomerService) {}

  ngOnInit() {
  }

  newCustomer(): void {
    this.submitted = false;
    this.customer = new Customer();
  }

  save() {
    this.customerService.createCustomer(this.customer);
    this.customer = new Customer();
  }

  onSubmit() {
    this.submitted = true;
    this.save();
  }
}

import {Component, OnInit} from '@angular/core';

import {FormsModule} from '@angular/forms';

import {Customer} from '../customer';

import {CustomerService} from '../customer.service';

@Component({

selector: 'create-customer',

templateUrl: './create-customer.component.html',

styleUrls: ['./create-customer.component.css']

})

export class CreateCustomerComponent implements OnInit {

customer: Customer = new Customer();

submitted = false;

constructor(private customerService: CustomerService) {}

ngOnInit() {

}

newCustomer(): void {

this.submitted = false;

this.customer = new Customer();

}

save() {

this.customerService.createCustomer(this.customer);

this.customer = new Customer();

}

onSubmit() {

this.submitted = true;

this.save();

}

create-customer.component.html:

<h3>Create Customer</h3>
<div [hidden]="submitted" style="width: 300px;">
	<form (ngSubmit)="onSubmit()">
		<div class="form-group">
			<label for="name">Name</label> <input type="text"
				class="form-control" id="name" required [(ngModel)]="customer.name"
				name="name">
		</div>

		<div class="form-group">
			<label for="age">Age</label> <input type="text"
				class="form-control" id="age" required [(ngModel)]="customer.age"
				name="age">
		</div>

		<button type="submit" class="btn btn-success">Submit</button>
	</form>
</div>

<div [hidden]="!submitted">
	<h4>You submitted successfully!</h4>
	<button class="btn btn-success" (click)="newCustomer()">Add</button>
</div>

<h3>Create Customer</h3>

<label for="name">Name</label> <input type="text"

class="form-control" id="name" required [(ngModel)]="customer.name"

name="name">

</div>

<label for="age">Age</label> <input type="text"

class="form-control" id="age" required [(ngModel)]="customer.age"

name="age">

</div>

<button type="submit" class="btn btn-success">Submit</button>

</form>

</div>

<h4>You submitted successfully!</h4>

</div>

2.9 Routing Module

import { CreateCustomerComponent } from './customers/create-customer/create-customer.component';
import { CustomersListComponent } from './customers/customers-list/customers-list.component';

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { RouterModule, Routes } from '@angular/router';

const routes: Routes = [
  { path: '', redirectTo: 'customers', pathMatch: 'full' },
  { path: 'customers', component: CustomersListComponent },
  { path: 'add', component: CreateCustomerComponent }
];

@NgModule({
  imports: [RouterModule.forRoot(routes)],
  exports: [RouterModule]
})

export class AppRoutingModule { }

import { CreateCustomerComponent } from './customers/create-customer/create-customer.component';

import { CustomersListComponent } from './customers/customers-list/customers-list.component';

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';

import { RouterModule, Routes } from '@angular/router';

const routes: Routes = [

{ path: '', redirectTo: 'customers', pathMatch: 'full' },

{ path: 'customers', component: CustomersListComponent },

{ path: 'add', component: CreateCustomerComponent }

];

@NgModule({

imports: [RouterModule.forRoot(routes)],

exports: [RouterModule]

})

export class AppRoutingModule { }

app.component.html:

<div class="container-fluid">
  <div style="color: blue;">
    <h1>{{title}}</h1>
    <h3>{{description}}</h3>
  </div>

  <nav>
    <a routerLink="customers" class="btn btn-primary active" role="button" routerLinkActive="active">Customers</a>
    <a routerLink="add" class="btn btn-primary active" role="button" routerLinkActive="active">Add</a>
  </nav>
  <router-outlet></router-outlet>
</div>

<h1>{{title}}</h1>

<h3>{{description}}</h3>

</div>

<nav>

<a routerLink="customers" class="btn btn-primary active" role="button" routerLinkActive="active">Customers</a>

</nav>

<router-outlet></router-outlet>

</div>

To understand how to use Angular Routing Module, please visit:
How to work with Angular Routing – Spring Boot + Angular 4

3. Check Result

– Open browser with url http://localhost:4200/.

– Add Customer:
angular-5-firebase-crud-result-add-customer

– View Customers and change Active Status:
angular-5-firebase-crud-result-update-customer

>> Firebase Console:
angular-5-firebase-crud-result-console-customer

– Delete a Customer:
angular-5-firebase-crud-result-delete-customer

– Delete all Customers:
angular-5-firebase-crud-result-delete-all-customer

>> Firebase Console is clean now.

III. Source Code

Angular5FirebaseCRUD

By grokonez | February 17, 2018.

Last updated on November 29, 2018.

12 thoughts on “Angular 5 Firebase CRUD operations with AngularFire2 v5”

Serg says:
February 19, 2018 at 12:16 pm
Add source code link, please.
1. JavaSampleApproach says:
  February 19, 2018 at 3:44 pm
  Hi Serg,
  Here you are 🙂
  Angular5FirebaseCRUD
  Regards,
  JSA.
Jack Stepanyan says:
February 27, 2018 at 2:44 pm
Thank you for this tutorial. I was trying to find the right tutorial for angular 5, and this was it. I had problems with other tutorials as they were using angular 4 which in this case could be problematic.
Fernando J says:
March 22, 2018 at 8:29 pm
hi, i’m new with angular+firebase.
how can i get a single object from database and show it in html?
thanks 🙂
1. Rajan Bhadauria says:
  July 19, 2018 at 3:08 pm
  this.db.object(‘/users/’+ uid);
Cuauhtémoc says:
May 28, 2018 at 4:27 am
I’m getting an error when I’m using customerService.getCustomersList()
Uncaught TypeError: Object(…) is not a function
at SwitchMapSubscriber.eval [as project] (changes.js:7)
at SwitchMapSubscriber._next (switchMap.js:91)
at SwitchMapSubscriber.Subscriber.next (Subscriber.js:95)
at RefCountSubscriber.Subscriber._next (Subscriber.js:131)
at RefCountSubscriber.Subscriber.next (Subscriber.js:95)
at Subject.next (Subject.js:56)
at ConnectableSubscriber.Subscriber._next (Subscriber.js:131)
at ConnectableSubscriber.Subscriber.next (Subscriber.js:95)
at Notification.observe (Notification.js:32)
at AsyncAction.DelaySubscriber.dispatch (delay.js:91)
Any idea how to fix this?
Rodrigo says:
June 1, 2018 at 3:42 pm
I’m getting he same error when I’m using customerService.getCustomersList()
Uncaught TypeError: Object(…) is not a function
at SwitchMapSubscriber.eval [as project] (changes.js:7)
at SwitchMapSubscriber._next (switchMap.js:91)
at SwitchMapSubscriber.Subscriber.next (Subscriber.js:95)
at RefCountSubscriber.Subscriber._next (Subscriber.js:131)
at RefCountSubscriber.Subscriber.next (Subscriber.js:95)
at Subject.next (Subject.js:56)
at ConnectableSubscriber.Subscriber._next (Subscriber.js:131)
at ConnectableSubscriber.Subscriber.next (Subscriber.js:95)
at Notification.observe (Notification.js:32)
at AsyncAction.DelaySubscriber.dispatch (delay.js:91)
Any idea how to fix this?
1. Rajan Bhadauria says:
  July 19, 2018 at 3:12 pm
  You can do like this
  subscribe(abc=>{
  }).unsubscribe()
Gospel Darlington says:
June 19, 2018 at 5:01 pm
Hello Sir,
I have been following your tutorials and i have absolutely found them updated to
the latest versions of angular and they work.
My question is about how to unsubscribe from a firebase list data.
I would like to unsubscribe from it once i finish adding data to an array.
1. Rajan Bhadauria says:
  July 19, 2018 at 3:13 pm
  You can do like this
  subscribe(abc=>{
  }).unsubscribe()
Deep Karmakar says:
September 2, 2018 at 6:35 am
Thanks for the example. Now I have made another page for editing those customers. On clicking the edit page i put
Edit
it goes to edit page and I get that key on edit page by
id = this.route.snapshot.paramMap.get(‘id’);
but I can’t fetch the whole object for that particular key (-LJiOhfDZOG_njZeSYch). can you please help me?
Thank you.
Oliver says:
November 17, 2018 at 9:24 pm
Finally. Something updated and works well…. Thank you! The documentation thru google and elsewhere is just not as straightforward as you presented it. Well done.

Angular 5 Firebase CRUD operations with AngularFire2 v5

I. Technology

II. How to do

1. Set up the Firebase Project & Install AngularFire2

2. Object

2.1 Create an object binding/ Retrieve

2.2 Create

2.3 Update

2.4 Delete

3. List of Objects

3.1 Create a list binding/ Retrieve

3.2 Create

3.3 Update

3.4 Delete

III. Practice

1. Project Overview

1.1 Goal

1.2 Structure

2. Step by step

2.1 Set up the Firebase Project & Install AngularFire2

2.2 Add Firebase config to environments variable

2.3 Setup @NgModule

2.4 Model Class

2.5 Service

2.6 Customer Details Compoment

2.7 Customers List Component

2.8 Create Customer Component

2.9 Routing Module

3. Check Result

III. Source Code

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I. Technology

II. How to do

1. Set up the Firebase Project & Install AngularFire2

2. Object

2.1 Create an object binding/ Retrieve

2.2 Create

2.3 Update

2.4 Delete

3. List of Objects

3.1 Create a list binding/ Retrieve

3.2 Create

3.3 Update

3.4 Delete

III. Practice

1. Project Overview

1.1 Goal

1.2 Structure

2. Step by step

2.1 Set up the Firebase Project & Install AngularFire2

2.2 Add Firebase config to environments variable

2.3 Setup @NgModule

2.4 Model Class

2.5 Service

2.6 Customer Details Compoment

2.7 Customers List Component

2.8 Create Customer Component

2.9 Routing Module

3. Check Result

III. Source Code

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