Understanding When and Where Angular's Dependency Injection Actually Works If you have ever encountered the NG0203 error — inject() must be called from an injection context — and spent time wondering why a perfectly valid service injection works in one place but fails in another, this article explains exactly why. Angular's dependency injection does not work everywhere. It requires a specific runtime environment called the Injection Context . Once you understand what that is, where it exists, and how to create it manually, you will stop guessing and start writing predictable, testable Angular code. Before we dive into the examples, a quick note: The code snippets provided here may be syntax from earlier Angular versions. Code Snippets just for understanding only.…