What is the difference between ngAfterViewInit() and ngAfterViewChecked()?

Question

I am learning Angular 2. In the angular 2 lifecycle hooks

ngAfterContentInit -- Component content has been initialized ngAfterContentChecked -- Component content has been Checked ngAfterViewInit -- Component views are initialized ngAfterViewChecked -- Component views have been checked 

I can't understand the difference between the ngAfterContentInit Vs ngAfterContentChecked, ngAfterViewInit Vs ngAfterViewChecked.

They mentioned Component content has been Checked and Component views have been checked. I can't understand what that word "Checked" mentioned?

Can any one explain.

Answer 1

The best article out there that explains lifecycle hooks in details is Everything you need to know about change detection in Angular.

ngAfterViewInit Vs ngAfterVIewChecked

As explained in the article the ngAfterVIewChecked is called every time Angular has finished running change detection on a component and it's children. ngAfterViewInit is called only during first change detection cycle. You can use it if you need to know when the first change detection cycle runs. For example, you need to setup listeners for some jQuery elements and you need to wait until they are initialized:

ngAfterViewInit() {   this.widget = $(this.location.nativeElement).slider({value: this.value});    this.widget.on('slidestop', (event, ui) => {     this.onChange(ui.value);   }); } 

The same holds for ngAfterContentInit with the difference that Angular runs change detection for projected content (through ng-content) instead of the children specified in the components template.

I can't understand what that word "Checked" mentioned?

Checking means running change detection and performing change detection related operations like DOM update, querylist update and child component bindings update.

Answer 2

You can refer to the docs which clearly states of these:

ngAfterContentInit()

Respond after Angular projects external content into the component's view. Called once after the first ngDoCheck().

ngAfterContentChecked()

Respond after Angular checks the content projected into the component. Called after the ngAfterContentInit() and every subsequent ngDoCheck().

ngAfterViewInit()

Respond after Angular initializes the component's views and child views. Called once after the first ngAfterContentChecked().

ngAfterViewChecked()

Respond after Angular checks the component's views and child views. Called after the ngAfterViewInit and every subsequent ngAfterContentChecked().

That means Checked states to say it runs after Init. Initialization means it runs at first and Checking for the changes runs many times after initialization.