Vanilla Installation

NOTE these instructions are for the latest v5.x and might differ from earlier versions of the lib.

1. Install NPM Package

Install the Angular-Slickgrid, and other external packages like Bootstrap and Font-Awesome (Bootstrap, Font-Awesome are optional, you can choose other lib if you wish)

npm install --save @slickgrid-universal/common

# install whichever UI framework you want to use like Bootstrap, Bulma, ...
npm install bootstrap

2. 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 basic example.

1. define a grid container in your View

<h1>My First Grid</h1>

<div class="grid1">
</div>

2. configure the Column Definitions, Grid Options and pass a Dataset to the grid

below we use mounted, but it could be totally different dependending on what framework you use (it could be mounted, attached, onRender, ...)

import { Column, GridOption, Slicker } from '@slickgrid-universal/common';

export class GridBasicComponent {
  columnDefinitions: Column[] = [];
  gridOptions: GridOption = {};

  constructor() {
    this.prepareGrid();
  }

  mounted() {
    const container = document.querySelector(`.grid1`) as HTMLDivElement;
    this.sgb = new Slicker.GridBundle(container, this.columnDefinitions, this.getData());
  }

  getData() {
    // ...
  }

  prepareGrid() {
    this.columnDefinitions = [
      { id: 'title', name: 'Title', field: 'title', sortable: true },
      { id: 'duration', name: 'Duration (days)', field: 'duration', sortable: true },
      { id: '%', name: '% Complete', field: 'percentComplete', sortable: true },
      { id: 'start', name: 'Start', field: 'start' },
      { id: 'finish', name: 'Finish', field: 'finish' },
    ];

    this.gridOptions = {
      enableAutoResize: true,
      enableSorting: true
    };

    // fill the dataset with your data (or read it from the DB)
    this.dataset = [
      { id: 0, title: 'Task 1', duration: 45, percentComplete: 5, start: '2001-01-01', finish: '2001-01-31' },
      { id: 1, title: 'Task 2', duration: 33, percentComplete: 34, start: '2001-01-11', finish: '2001-02-04' },
    ];
  }
}

3. CSS / SASS Styles

Load your prefered theme, choose between Bootstrap (default), Material or Salesforce themes. You can also customize them to your taste (either by using SASS or CSS variables).

CSS

Default compiled css, you can load it through HTML or import it in your JS code depending on your project.

# Bootstrap Theme
<link rel="stylesheet" href="@slickgrid-universal/common/dist/styles/css/slickgrid-theme-bootstrap.css">

Note to use a different theme, simply replace the theme suffix, for example "slickgrid-theme-material.css" for the Material Theme.

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:

/* for example, let's change the mouse hover color */
$cell-odd-background-color: lightyellow;
$row-mouse-hover-color: lightgreen;

/* make sure to add the @import the SlickGrid Theme AFTER the variables changes */
@import '@slickgrid-universal/common/dist/styles/sass/slickgrid-theme-bootstrap.scss';

4. Explore the Documentation

The last step is really to explore all the pages that are available on the documentation website which are often updated. For example a good starter is to look at the following

• all the Grid Options you can take a look at, Slickgrid-Universal - Grid Options interface

• Formatters

• Editors

• Filters

• Grid Menu ... and much more, just explorer the Documentation through the table of content (on your left)

5. Get Started

The best way to get started is to clone either the Slickgrid-Universal Vite Demo or Slickgrid-Universal WebPack Demo.

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" that is available in every live examples.

... and that should cover it, now let's code!