[angular] Global Events in Angular

I'm using a message service that wraps an rxjs Subject (TypeScript)

Plunker example: Message Service

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { Subject } from 'rxjs/Subject';
import { Subscription } from 'rxjs/Subscription';
import 'rxjs/add/operator/filter'
import 'rxjs/add/operator/map'

interface Message {
  type: string;
  payload: any;
}

type MessageCallback = (payload: any) => void;

@Injectable()
export class MessageService {
  private handler = new Subject<Message>();

  broadcast(type: string, payload: any) {
    this.handler.next({ type, payload });
  }

  subscribe(type: string, callback: MessageCallback): Subscription {
    return this.handler
      .filter(message => message.type === type)
      .map(message => message.payload)
      .subscribe(callback);
  }
}

Components can subscribe and broadcast events (sender):

import { Component, OnDestroy } from '@angular/core'
import { MessageService } from './message.service'
import { Subscription } from 'rxjs/Subscription'

@Component({
  selector: 'sender',
  template: ...
})
export class SenderComponent implements OnDestroy {
  private subscription: Subscription;
  private messages = [];
  private messageNum = 0;
  private name = 'sender'

  constructor(private messageService: MessageService) {
    this.subscription = messageService.subscribe(this.name, (payload) => {
      this.messages.push(payload);
    });
  }

  send() {
    let payload = {
      text: `Message ${++this.messageNum}`,
      respondEvent: this.name
    }
    this.messageService.broadcast('receiver', payload);
  }

  clear() {
    this.messages = [];
  }

  ngOnDestroy() {
    this.subscription.unsubscribe();
  }
}

(receiver)

import { Component, OnDestroy } from '@angular/core'
import { MessageService } from './message.service'
import { Subscription } from 'rxjs/Subscription'

@Component({
  selector: 'receiver',
  template: ...
})
export class ReceiverComponent implements OnDestroy {
  private subscription: Subscription;
  private messages = [];

  constructor(private messageService: MessageService) {
    this.subscription = messageService.subscribe('receiver', (payload) => {
      this.messages.push(payload);
    });
  }

  send(message: {text: string, respondEvent: string}) {
    this.messageService.broadcast(message.respondEvent, message.text);
  }

  clear() {
    this.messages = [];
  }

  ngOnDestroy() {
    this.subscription.unsubscribe();
  }
}

The subscribe method of MessageService returns an rxjs Subscription object, which can be unsubscribed from like so:

import { Subscription } from 'rxjs/Subscription';
...
export class SomeListener {
  subscription: Subscription;

  constructor(private messageService: MessageService) {
    this.subscription = messageService.subscribe('someMessage', (payload) => {
      console.log(payload);
      this.subscription.unsubscribe();
    });
  }
}

Also see this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/36782616/1861779

Plunker example: Message Service