typescript - localStorage is not defined (Angular Universal)

Question

I am using universal-starter as backbone.

When my client starts, it read a token about user info from localStorage.

@Injectable()
export class UserService {
  foo() {}

  bar() {}

  loadCurrentUser() {
    const token = localStorage.getItem('token');

    // do other things
  };
}

Everything works well, however I got this in the server side (terminal) because of server rendering:

EXCEPTION: ReferenceError: localStorage is not defined

I got the idea from ng-conf-2016-universal-patterns that using Dependency Injection to solve this. But that demo is really old.

Say I have these two files now:

main.broswer.ts

export function ngApp() {
  return bootstrap(App, [
    // ...

    UserService
  ]);
}

main.node.ts

export function ngApp(req, res) {
  const config: ExpressEngineConfig = {
    // ...
    providers: [
      // ...
      UserService
    ]
  };

  res.render('index', config);
}

Right now they use both same UserService. Can someone give some codes to explain how to use different Dependency Injection to solve this?

If there is another better way rather than Dependency Injection, that will be cool too.

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UPDATE 1 I am using Angular 2 RC4, I tried @Martin's way. But even I import it, it still gives me error in the terminal below:

Terminal (npm start)

/my-project/node_modules/@angular/core/src/di/reflective_provider.js:240 throw new reflective_exceptions_1.NoAnnotationError(typeOrFunc, params); ^ Error: Cannot resolve all parameters for 'UserService'(Http, ?). Make sure that all the parameters are decorated with Inject or have valid type annotations and that 'UserService' is decorated with Injectable.

Terminal (npm run watch)

error TS2304: Cannot find name 'LocalStorage'.

I guess it is somehow duplicated with the LocalStorage from angular2-universal (although I am not using import { LocalStorage } from 'angular2-universal';), but even I tried to change mine to LocalStorage2, still not work.

And in the meanwhile, my IDE WebStorm also shows red:

BTW, I found a import { LocalStorage } from 'angular2-universal';, but not sure how to use that.

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UPDATE 2, I changed to (not sure whether there is a better way):

import { Injectable, Inject } from '@angular/core';
import { Http } from '@angular/http';
import { LocalStorage } from '../../local-storage';

@Injectable()
export class UserService {
  constructor (
    private _http: Http,
    @Inject(LocalStorage) private localStorage) {}  // <- this line is new

  loadCurrentUser() {
    const token = this.localStorage.getItem('token'); // here I change from `localStorage` to `this.localStorage`

    // …
  };
}

This solves the issue in UPADAT 1, but now I got error in the terminal:

EXCEPTION: TypeError: this.localStorage.getItem is not a function

Answer 1

These steps resolved my issue:

Step 1: Run this command:

npm i localstorage-polyfill --save

Step 2: Add these two lines in server.ts file:

import 'localstorage-polyfill'

global['localStorage'] = localStorage;

Once you are done, run build command (eg: npm run build:serverless)

All set now. Start the server again and you can see the issue is resolved.

Note: Use localStorage not window.localStorage, eg: localStorage.setItem(keyname, value)