Is this the correct way to implement a Pipe in Angular 2

Question

I am working on an Angular 2 application with Webpack.

I am implementing a pipe in Angular 2 to format phone number using google-libphonenumber. Everything is working as expected. I am not very knowledgeable on how require works i.e., it is as simple as using an existing JS function or loads a library doing an expensive operation. So I'm not sure if I have to define PNF and phoneUtil in the example below, outside the transform function in pipe.

export class PhonePipe implements PipeTransform {
    transform(value: string) {
        let PNF = require('google-libphonenumber').PhoneNumberFormat;
        // Get an instance of `PhoneNumberUtil`.
        let phoneUtil = require('google-libphonenumber').PhoneNumberUtil.getInstance();
        // Add a leading '+' sign if not available. Assumption is all numbers contain country code prefixed.
        let newValue = value.length > 0 && value.charAt(0) != "+" ? "+" + value : value;
        // Format the number.
        let parsedPhoneObj = phoneUtil.parse(newValue, 'US');
        console.log(parsedPhoneObj);
        return phoneUtil.format(parsedPhoneObj, PNF.INTERNATIONAL);
    }
}

Will appreciate any suggestions. My goal is optimize the application performance.

Answer 1

I would do:

import * as libphonenumber from 'google-libphonenumber';

export class PhonePipe implements PipeTransform {
    transform(value: string) {

        let PNF = libphonenumber.PhoneNumberFormat;

        // Get an instance of `PhoneNumberUtil`.
        let phoneUtil = libphonenumber.PhoneNumberUtil.getInstance();

        // Add a leading '+' sign if not available. Assumption is all numbers contain country code prefixed.
        let newValue = value.length > 0 && value.charAt(0) != "+" ? "+" + value : value;

        // Format the number.
        let parsedPhoneObj = phoneUtil.parse(newValue, 'US');

        return phoneUtil.format(parsedPhoneObj, PNF.INTERNATIONAL);
    }
}

You don't really use require with typescript, instead you can use import as showed. This also gives you 1 import rather than 2 like you had before.