Why & How to Use the Facade Pattern in Angular – A Practical Guide

What is the Facade Pattern in Angular?

Have you ever found your Angular components cluttered with business logic, making them hard to maintain and test? Do you struggle with handling state management cleanly? If yes, then the Facade Pattern is what you need!

In this article, you'll learn:

• What the Facade Pattern is and why you should use it in Angular.
• How to implement it step-by-step with a real-world example.
• Best practices to keep your Angular applications scalable and maintainable.

By the end, you'll have a cleaner and more structured Angular app, improving both readability and testability.

Understanding the Facade Pattern

The Facade Pattern is a structural design pattern that provides a simple interface to complex subsystems. In Angular, it acts as a bridge between components and services, reducing direct dependencies and making state management easier.

🔥 Why Use the Facade Pattern?

✅ Decouples Components from Services – Prevents components from directly interacting with multiple services.

✅ Enhances Code Readability – Centralizes logic, making code cleaner and easier to follow.

✅ Improves Maintainability – Changes in the business logic affect only the facade, not all components.

✅ Simplifies Unit Testing – Components depend on a single facade instead of multiple services.

Implementing the Facade Pattern in Angular

🛠 Step 1: Create a Service

First, we create a service to handle API interactions.

@Injectable({ providedIn: 'root' })
export class ProductService {
  constructor(private http: HttpClient) {}

  getProducts(): Observable<Product[]> {
    return this.http.get<Product[]>('https://api.example.com/products');
  }
}

🛠 Step 2: Create a Facade

The facade will act as a bridge between the component and service.

@Injectable({ providedIn: 'root' })
export class ProductFacade {
  private productsSubject = new BehaviorSubject<Product[]>([]);
  products$ = this.productsSubject.asObservable();

  constructor(private productService: ProductService) {}

  loadProducts() {
    this.productService.getProducts().subscribe(products => {
      this.productsSubject.next(products);
    });
  }
}

🛠 Step 3: Use the Facade in a Component

@Component({
  selector: 'app-product-list',
  template: `
    <div *ngFor="let product of products$ | async">
      {{ product.name }} - {{ product.price }}
    </div>
    <button (click)="loadProducts()">Load Products</button>
  `,
})
export class ProductListComponent {
  products$ = this.productFacade.products$;

  constructor(private productFacade: ProductFacade) {}

  loadProducts() {
    this.productFacade.loadProducts();
  }
}

🎯 Best Practices

✔ Keep the facade thin – Only delegate responsibilities, don’t add unnecessary logic.

✔ Use RxJS Subjects – To store and manage data reactively.

✔ Make facades reusable – Multiple components should benefit from them.

✔ Avoid direct service calls in components – Let the facade handle that.

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