The beautiful thing about the web was that this article is outdated before I even started writing it. I am going to show how I was able to encapsulate SignalR functionality behind a simple service that works nicely in an Angular 2+ environment. I find myself frequently ruminating about the fact that Angular 2+ is more of an "environment" than a framework. It's not just a handful of libraries strewn together - it literally drives your development process - pretty much forcing you to introduce Node.js, TypeScript and a build tool (eg., Webpack) into your daily activities. It also strongly reinforces how you organize your files and what you name them. It's so painfully opinionated and I love it!
If you are working on an Angular 2+ application and you don't have a lot of services, you are doing something woefully wrong. One of the biggest parts of getting your head wrapped around Angular 2+ is familiarizing yourself with their new approach to dependency injection an