Provider vs Service in CLI

Ionic Framework ionic-v3
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Hi everyone,

Why does ionic cli generate Provider and Angular one does generate Service ?

Thanks !

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What do you mean with this sentence?

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With Ionic CLI

Command : ionic generate provider test
Class name in result : TestProvider

With Angular CLI

Command : ng g service test
Class name in result : TestService

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Kneejerk reply: Because you asked Ionic to create a Provider, and Angular to create a Service… :stuck_out_tongue:

But you are asking why a Angular “Service” is called “Provider” in Ionic land.

Good question.

My guess: When Ionic went for this naming convention the Angular “best practices” weren’t pinned down yet, and provider was a common name with Ionic1/AngularJS, so they went with that. Maybe also because services are quite often used to provide data to pages in Ionic… but that’s just another wild guess.

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They’re really the same thing. Just a name difference.

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Thanks @mhartington.

But, like @Sujan12 said previously : Why a Angular “Service” is called “Provider” in Ionic land ?

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We went with provider because when you want to include them in your ngModule, they go in the providers array :smile:

Can’t answer for Angular, but I’m going to guess it’s because in AngularJS, you have angular.service, so it makes it may make it easier to understand what it does.

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@mhartington, any plans to re-align with Angular ? To me, ionic is an extension of Angular, and I would love to have them perfectly aligned

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I think the same, also each time I return to an Ionic project after a long pause I have to rethink again… "is this suppose to be provider or service???

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Finally found peace with Providers vs Service in ionic.

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