After updating my app to 2.0.0-beta.7/Angular 2.0.0-rc.1 I cannot get a reference to the nav inside a service. I’ve tried the @ViewChild and NavController methods but both fail. I’m not an Angular expert so, is this normal behaviour? I’ve also read that it might be a bad practice to control the view from a service and it should be done via events instead. Is that correct?

Actually using getActiveNav() fixes my issue.

[image] Why can't I import NavController and ViewController into Service or App? ionic-v3 I’m attempting to inject NavController and ViewController into either my app.js file or a custom service. My objective is (or was) to pass the current view into a “LeftMenuManager” service class. Some pages I need the leftmenu to be disabled, others I do not. The LeftMenuManager service would be responsible for flipping the switch based on the view name. However, I’m unable to inject these dependencies - I get an error about “No provider for NavController…”. I get the sense that I’m doing som…

[image] nunoarruda: I’ve also read that it might be a bad practice to control the view from a service and it should be done via events instead. Is that correct? I absolutely think so. Services should live in service-land, completely independent of component-dom-land. Personally, every time I’ve felt the need to do what you’re doing, I’ve eventually ended up yelling at myself and redoing the design.

Oh, that’s so honest. The endpoint of yelling at yourself, and starting again, is all too familiar along the learning path :slight_smile:

What's the best practice if you want to control the navigation from a service?

Ionic Framework ionic-v3

xr0master May 21, 2016, 11:13am 2

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