[angular] How to truncate text in Angular2?

Here's an alternative approach using an interface to describe the shape of an options object to be passed via the pipe in the markup.

@Pipe({
  name: 'textContentTruncate'
})
export class TextContentTruncatePipe implements PipeTransform {

  transform(textContent: string, options: TextTruncateOptions): string {
    if (textContent.length >= options.sliceEnd) {
      let truncatedText = textContent.slice(options.sliceStart, options.sliceEnd);
      if (options.prepend) { truncatedText = `${options.prepend}${truncatedText}`; }
      if (options.append) { truncatedText = `${truncatedText}${options.append}`; }
      return truncatedText;
    }
    return textContent;
  }

}

interface TextTruncateOptions {
  sliceStart: number;
  sliceEnd: number;
  prepend?: string;
  append?: string;
}

Then in your markup:

{{someText | textContentTruncate:{sliceStart: 0, sliceEnd: 50, append: '...'} }}