--- title: Composition and inheritance in Angular | daily.dev description: A practical walkthrough of why inheritance in Angular components can lead to tightly coupled code and constructor over-injection problems. Using a real-world... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/composition-and-inheritance-in-angular-owqwa7e0w twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Composition and inheritance in Angular | daily.dev og:description: A practical walkthrough of why inheritance in Angular components can lead to tightly coupled code and constructor over-injection problems. 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