
Angular’s reactive world revolves around Subjects, but the star is often the BehaviorSubject — why? Because it always starts with a value, and when you subscribe, you immediately get the latest emission (like receiving the current issue of a magazine). Meanwhile, ReplaySubject lets you go further by replaying multiple past values (no default), and a plain Subject is just “live only” — no past, no future. Let’s dig into when and why to use each.
Alain Chautard
October 8, 2025
The most common type of Subject used with Angular is BehaviorSubject. Why is that? Because a BehaviorSubject has two exciting features that a plain Subject does not have:
Imagine subscribing to a magazine and receiving its latest published issue immediately. That’s what a BehaviorSubject does. This is helpful if you have components that need to know about the app’s current user. When the component subscribes to the “current user,” we want to get that info immediately and not wait for the next user update.

Also, since behavior subjects always have a value, they have a getValue() method that synchronously returns the current value.
A ReplaySubject is very similar to a BehaviorSubject, with two key differences:
The constructor parameter determines how many values should be replayed to new subscribers:

A plain Subject has none of the above capabilities. When a value is emitted, current subscribers receive it, but future subscribers won’t. There is no replaying of the latest value(s), which makes plain Subjects less interesting to work with.
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