angular2 ngIf true or false condition

Question

Can someone help me with this ngIf condition, I'm trying to hide the logout when key doesn't exist and show it when its exist in the localStorage. I'm getting confused about multiple conditions in the ngIf but the checks are correct.

This check is being used as a directive.

checkSession() {
  var checkKey = localStorage.getItem('sessionKey');
  if(checkKey == null){
      var showLogout = false;
      console.log('null key: ', checkKey);
  } else {
      showLogout = true;
      //this check will only be available once the user is logged in
      console.log('key exist: ' checkKey);
  }

}

Html

 <a (click)="logout()" title="Logout" *ngIf="showLogout || (!showLogout && !showLogout)">
    <i class="fa fa-sign-out fa-2x" aria-hidden="true" ></i>
 </a>

Answer 1

It seems what you want is

export class MyComponent {

  /// other stuff

  showLogout:boolean = false;

  checkSession() {
    var checkKey = localStorage.getItem('sessionKey');
    if(checkKey == null){
        this.showLogout = false; // changed
        console.log('null key: ', checkKey);
    } else {
        this.showLogout = true; // changed
        //this check will only be available once the user is logged in
        console.log('key exist: ' checkKey);
    }
  }
}

A local variable won't be available in the template. The template can only access top-level properties and methods of your components class directly.