How to extract and reuse nav bar template and logic in Ionic 2 app? - ionic-framework

Question

Having had some experience with Angular 1.x (but not Ionic 1.x), I am now trying to develop a small mobile app using Ionic 2, which is based on Angular 2.
I am familiar with URL-based routing principles such as those used in ui-router. The concept in Ionic 2 is different and is based on pushing/popping pages on top of a root page.
So far I have managed to create 2 pages (Search and Person) with a nav bar on top, and to navigate from one to the other, and back. The navbar has a button to return to the root (Search) page (because later it will be possible to navigate from a person to other pages, further away from the root page).
However I could not figure out how to extract the navbar and navbar controller in a separate file. So the markup and the button handler (goToSearch) are repeated in every page.
How can I extract the navbar template and logic so as not to repeat it ?
Bonus question (and strongly related) : Can someone explain the difference between the ion-nav in app.html and the ion-navbar in the pages ?
app.ts :
import 'es6-shim';
import {App, Platform} from 'ionic-angular';
import {StatusBar} from 'ionic-native';
import {TabsPage} from './pages/tabs/tabs';
import {Search} from './pages/search/search'
#App({
templateUrl: 'build/pages/app.html',
config: {} // http://ionicframework.com/docs/v2/api/config/Config/
})
export class MyApp {
rootPage: any = Search;
constructor(platform: Platform) {
platform.ready().then(() => {
// Okay, so the platform is ready and our plugins are available.
// Here you can do any higher level native things you might need.
StatusBar.styleDefault();
});
}
}
app.html :
<ion-nav [root]="rootPage">
<ion-buttons end>
<button>
<ion-icon name="search"></ion-icon>
</button>
</ion-buttons>
</ion-nav>
search.ts :
import {Page} from 'ionic-angular';
import {Nav} from 'ionic-angular';
import {Person} from '../person/person'
#Page({
templateUrl: 'build/pages/search/search.html',
})
export class Search {
nav:Nav;
constructor(nav:Nav) {
this.nav = nav;
}
goToPerson() {
this.nav.push(Person);
}
}
search.html:
<ion-navbar *navbar>
<ion-title>Search</ion-title>
<ion-buttons end>
<button>
<ion-icon name="search"></ion-icon>
</button>
</ion-buttons>
</ion-navbar>
<ion-content padding class="page1">
<h2>Welcome to SEARCH</h2>
<button (click)="goToPerson()">Go to person</button>
</ion-content>
person.ts :
import {Page} from 'ionic-angular';
import {Nav} from 'ionic-angular';
import {Search} from '../search/search'
#Page({
templateUrl: 'build/pages/person/person.html',
})
export class Person {
nav:Nav;
constructor(nav:Nav) {
this.nav = nav;
}
goToSearch() {
this.nav.push(Search);
}
}
person.html :
<ion-navbar *navbar>
<ion-title>Person</ion-title>
<ion-buttons end>
<button (click)="goToSearch()">
<ion-icon name="search"></ion-icon>
</button>
</ion-buttons>
</ion-navbar>
<ion-content padding class="page1">
<h2>Welcome to PERSON</h2>
<button (click)="goToSearch()">Go to search</button>
</ion-content>

Answer 1

you could create a component to hold your header config, components are reusable and can be very dynamic, just dont forget to import it on your module
default-header.html
<ion-navbar *navbar>
<ion-title>{{pageTitle}}</ion-title>
<ion-buttons end>
<button (click)="goToSearch()">
<ion-icon name="{{icon}}"></ion-icon>
</button>
</ion-buttons>
</ion-navbar>
default-header.ts
import { Component, Input, Inject, ViewChild } from "#angular/core";
import { Content } from "ionic-angular";
import { NavController } from "ionic-angular/navigation/nav-controller";
import {Person} from '../person/person'
#Component({
selector: "default-header",
templateUrl: "default-header.html"
})
export class DefaultHeaderComponent {
#Input() pageTitle: any;
#Input() icon= true;
#ViewChild(Content) content: Content;
constructor(
public navCtrl: NavController,
) {
console.log("Hello DefaultHeaderComponent Component");
}
ionViewDidLoad() {
const self = this;
}
gotNotificationsPage() {
this.global.setRoot("NotificationsPage");
}
}
and call it in the place of your navbar like this in any page
<default-header [title]="'Person'" [icon]="'search'"></default-header>