Child listens for parent event in Angular 2

For the sake of posterity, just thought I’d mention the more conventional solution to this: Simply obtain a reference to the ViewChild then call one of its methods directly.

@Component({
  selector: 'app-child'
})
export class ChildComponent {

  notifyMe() {
    console.log('Event Fired');
  }
}

@Component({
  selector: 'app-parent',
  template: `<app-child #child></app-child>`
})
export class ParentComponent {

  @ViewChild('child')
  private child: ChildComponent;

  ngOnInit() {
    this.child.notifyMe();
  }
}