Quick start
NOTE The Documentations shown on this website are meant for Angular-Slickgrid v7.x and higher, for older versions please refer to the project Wikis.
1. Install NPM Package
Install the Angular-Slickgrid
, and other external packages like Bootstrap
(Bootstrap is optional, you can choose other framework if you wish)
Important note about ngx-translate
ngx-translate
Now optional
ngx-translate
is now optional as of version 2.10.0
, see more info below at step 5 NOTE however, please note that @ngx-translate
is still going to be installed behind the scene just to make DI (dependency injection) build properly because of our use of @Optional()
but it should be removed by the build tree shaking process once you run a production build. See their version compatibility table below
16+
15.x
13+ (Ivy only)
14.x
10-13
13.x
8-9
12.x
7
11.x
2. Modify the angular.json
and tsconfig.app.json
files
angular.json
and tsconfig.app.json
filesprevious Angular versions were using .angular-cli.json
.angular-cli.json
Then modify your angular.json
file with the following Styles and Scripts:
3. CSS / SASS Styles
Load the default Bootstrap theme style and/or customize it to your taste (either by using SASS or CSS variables)
CSS
Default compiled css
(if you use the plain Bootstrap Theme CSS, you could simply add it to your .angular-cli.json
file and be done with it).
Note: If you are also using Bootstrap-SASS
, then there is no need to include the bootstrap.css
in the styles: []
section.
Note Bootstrap is optional, you can use any other framework, other themes are also available as CSS and SCSS file extensions
slickgrid-theme-default.css
,slickgrid-theme-bootstrap.css
,slickgrid-theme-material.css
,slickgrid-theme-salesforce.css
SASS (scss)
You could also compile the SASS files with your own customization, for that simply take any of the _variables.scss (without the !default
flag) variable file and make sure to import the Bootstrap Theme afterward. For example, you could modify your style.scss
with the following changes:
4. Include it in your App Module (or App Config for Standalone)
Below are 2 different setups (with App Module (legacy) or Standalone) but in both cases the AngularSlickgridModule.forRoot()
is required, so make sure to include it. Also note that the GitHub demo is strictly built with an App Module which is considered the legacy approach.
App Module (legacy)
Include AngularSlickgridModule
in your App Module (app.module.ts
) Note Make sure to add the forRoot
since it will throw an error in the console when missing.
Standalone (App Config)
see this Stack Overflow answer for more details and Stackblitz demo
If your app is using standalone style, go to app.config.ts
Then import the AngularSlickgridModule
to the app.component.ts
Angular 7+
The new updated version of ng-packagr
use strict metadata and you might get errors about Lambda not supported
, to bypass this problem you can add the @dynamic
comment over the @NgModule
as shown below:
5. Install/Setup ngx-translate
for Localization (optional)
ngx-translate
for Localization (optional)If you don't want to use any Translate Service and use only 1 Locale then take a look at this demo
To provide locales other than English (default locale), you have 2 options that you can go with. If you only use English, there is nothing to do (you can still change some of the texts in the grid via option 1.)
Using Custom Locale, that is when you use only 1 locale (other than English)... this is a new feature starting from version
2.10.0
and up.Using Localization with I18N, that is when you want to use multiple locales dynamically.
NOTE you still need to install
@ngx-translate
(since it is a peer dependency) but it should be removed after doing a production build since it's optional.
Translation Keys
Also note that every time you want to use a translation key, you simply have to use a property with the Key
suffix. For example if you wish to have a column definition name
with a translation, just use the nameKey: 'TRANSLATE_KEY'
instead of name
. Below is a list of keys that can be used in the lib
name
nameKey
label
labelKey
title
titleKey
columnGroup
columnGroupKey
optionTitle
optionTitleKey
6. Create a basic grid
And finally, you are now ready to use it in your project, for example let's create both html/ts files for a grid-basic.component
example, configure the Column Definitions, Grid Options and pass a Dataset to the grid:
define Angular-Slickgrid in your View
7. Explore the Documentation
The last step is really to explore all the pages that are available in the documentation, everything you need to use the library should be available in here and so you should visit it often. For example a good starter is to look at the following
for all the
Grid Options
, take a look at all the Grid Options interface.Grid Menu ... and much more, just explore the Documentation through all the available pages.
8. How to load data with HttpClient
?
HttpClient
?You might notice that all demos are made with mocked dataset that are embedded in each examples, that is mainly for demo purposes, but you might be wondering how to connect this with an HttpClient
? Easy... just replace the mocked data, assigned to the dataset
property, by your HttpClient
call and that's it. The dataset
property can be changed at any time, which is why you can use local data and/or connect it to a Promise
or an Observable
with HttpClient
(internally it's just a SETTER that refreshes the grid). See Example 24 for a demo showing how to load a JSON file with HttpClient
.
9. Live Demo - Clone the Examples
The best way to get started is to clone the Angular-Slickgrid-demos, it has multiple examples and it is also updated frequently since it is used for the GitHub Bootstrap 5 demo page. Angular-Slickgrid
has 3 Bootstrap
repos, you can see a demo of each ones below.
Bootstrap 5 demo / examples repo (using
ngx-translate
)Bootstrap 5 - examples repo (single Locale, without using
ngx-translate
)
All Live Demo Examples have links to the actual code
If you would like to see the code to a particular Example, just click on the "see code" which is available in all live examples.
10. CSP Compliance
The project supports Content Security Policy (CSP) as long as you provide an optional sanitizer
in your grid options (we recommend DOMPurify). Review the CSP Compliance documentation for more info.
11. Missing Features compared to SlickGrid?
What if Angular-Slickgrid
is missing feature(s) versus the original SlickGrid
? Fear not and just use the SlickGrid
and DataView
objects directly, which are expose from the start through Custom Events. For more info continue reading on Docs - SlickGrid & DataView objects
12. Troubleshooting - Build Errors/Warnings
Visit the Troubleshooting section for more common errors.
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