Pipes in Angular2

Pipes are Angular 1.x filter being rethink. Pipes can be defined with special decorator @Pipe.
This entity can accept a value plus additional options parameters and return a transformed result.
By default you have available: DatePipe, UpperCasePipe, LowerCasePipe, CurrencyPipe, and PercentPipe;

Valuable changes:
1) filter and orderBy are not present anymore in Angular 2 because:

• they perform(ed) poorly on large datasets
• they prevent aggressive minification.

2) There are now 2 types of pipes:
Pure pipes - the regular ones, think of puyre function in FP - without detectable side-effects.
Impure pipes - this guys can involve more stuff outside it's body
and angular executes an impure pipe during every component change detection cycle.

•  AsyncPipe
•  caching pipe

In Angular 1.x you will do:
  //in controller
  $filter('date')(myDate, 'yyyy-MM-dd');

  //in template
  {{value | date:'yyyy-MM-dd'}}

In Angular 2.x you have following steps:
1) Custom pipe declaration
  
  //example-pipe.tcs
  import {Pipe} from '@angular/core';

  @Pipe({
      name: "example"
  })

  export class ExamplePipe{
      transform(value, [status]){

          return value.toLowerCase();
      }
  }

2) usage
  //component that uses ExamplePipe
  import {ExamplePipe} from './example-pipe';

  @Component({
    selector: 'todo-list',
    pipes: [ExamplePipe],
    ..
    constructor(private stringPipe: ExamplePipe) {}

    transformText(date) {
      return this.stringPipe.transform(myText);
    }
  //or in the template
  <p>{{mytext | example}}</p>


More detailed Pipes overview: https://auth0.com/blog/2015/09/03/angular2-series-working-with-pipes/
Official docs: https://angular.io/docs/ts/latest/guide/pipes.html