For an Angular project for one of our clients, I’ve recently started using ng-bootstrap to implement standard modal dialogs in a ModalService. This service has methods to launch confirmation dialogs, input dialogs, message dialogs, etc; you can see a simplified version of this service on StackBlitz.
An addition to the reusable standard dialogs, we also needed to support custom one-off dialogs, and we wanted to use the same general approach, without adding a bunch of duplicate code. Most of the implementation was straight-forward, but adding type safety to the generic launcher was more interesting. Read below to see how interfaces from TypeScript and Angular made it easy.
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