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ng2-meta

Update HTML meta tags for title, description and others automatically based on the route in your Angular app.

ng2-meta v5.0.0+ requires Angular 6. On Angular 5 or lower, use ng2-meta v4.0.0 (npm install ng2-meta@4.0.0)

For the AngularJS (1.x) module, check out ngMeta

Getting started

Install

To install this library, run:

$ npm install ng2-meta --save

Modify routes

Add meta tags and MetaGuard to routes. By default, title and description values are duplicated for og:title and og:description, so there's no need to add them separately.

Import MetaModule

Update AppComponent

You're all set! ng2-meta will update the meta tags whenever the route changes.

Options

Set defaults

Set default values for tags. These values are used when routes without meta: {} information are encountered.

import { MetaConfig, MetaService } from 'ng2-meta';

const metaConfig: MetaConfig = {
  //Append a title suffix such as a site name to all titles
  //Defaults to false
  useTitleSuffix: true,
  defaults: {
    title: 'Default title for pages without meta in their route',
    titleSuffix: ' | Site Name',
    'og:image': 'http://example.com/default-image.png',
    'any other': 'arbitrary tag can be used'
  }
};

@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    AppComponent,
    ...
  ],
  imports: [
    ...,
    MetaModule.forRoot(metaConfig)
  ],
  bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})

Change meta tags programmatically

import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';

class ProductComponent implements OnInit {
  ...
  constructor(private metaService: MetaService) {}

  ngOnInit() {
    this.product = //HTTP GET for product in catalogue
    this.metaService.setTitle('Product page for '+this.product.name);
    this.metaService.setTag('og:image',this.product.imageURL);
  }
}

Define fallback meta content in HTML

While Google executes Javascript and extracts meta tags set by ng2-meta, many bots (like Facebook and Twitter) do not execute Javascript. Consider defining fallback meta tags in your HTML for such bots. The fallback content is overridden by ng2-meta in Javascript-enabled environments.

<html>
  <head>
    <meta name="title" content="Website Name">
    <meta name="og:title" content="Website Name">
    <meta name="description" content="General description of your site">
    <meta name="og:description" content="General description of your site">
    <meta name="og:image" content="http://example.com/fallback-image.png">
  </head>
</html>

Contribute

If you wish to contribute to this repo, please check out the open issues.

If you notice a bug that has not already been reported or would like to make a feature request, please create a new issue. This helps to start a discussion with the community and avoid duplication of effort before you make any changes.