The @HostListener decorator is used to set up an event binding on the host element and is applied to a method. The example directive relies on the browser’s DOM API to manipulate its host element, both to add and remove class memberships and to receive the click event. Working with the DOM API in an Angular application is a useful technique, but it does mean that your directive can be used only in applications that are run in a web browser. Angular is intended to be run in a range of different execution environments, and not all of them can be assumed to provide the DOM API.
Even if you are sure that a directive will have access to the DOM, the same results can be achieved in a more elegant way using standard Angular directive features: property and event bindings. Rather than use the DOM to add and remove classes, a class binding can be used on the host element. And rather than use the addEventListener method, an event binding can be used to deal with the mouse click.
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