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Cleaning Up Subscriptions

Be sure to clean up your observable subscriptions to avoid memory leaks.

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Written by David Knapp
Updated 3 years ago
Less than a minute read

Angular use observables to pass values that change over time. A common example is listening to the current path of the app:

this.router.events.subscribe((event) => {
	if (event instanceof NavigationEnd) {
		debug('this.router.url',this.router.url);
	}
})

If you call a .subscribe method like the example above, you can cause a memory leak. You need to be sure to unsubscribe when your UI is unloaded.

Single Subscription

If your component only uses one subscription, you can add a subscription property to your UI:

Subscription property definition dialog

And add an unsubscribe UI method to clean it up:

Unsubscribe method dialog window

Multiple Subscriptions

If your app uses more than one subscription, you can make the property subscriptions:

Property definition dialog

And subscribe to the observable like this:

this.subscriptions.push(
	this.router.events.subscribe((event) => {
		if (event instanceof NavigationEnd) {
			debug('this.router.url',this.router.url);
		}
	})
);

And make the unsubscribe method like this:

while (this.subscriptions.length > 0) {
	this.subscriptions.pop().unsubscribe();
}

You can use the multiple pattern for a single subscription as well. You never know when you might need to add another!

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