Generic UI - Grid for Angular

Grid component

Generic UI Grid is one of the best free angular grid library. It offers many built-in features that work out of the box: editing, sorting, pagination, theming, summaries, column configuration, and many more. Performance is the main focus point, grid is able to present huge sets of data up to 1 000 000 rows. It greatly integrates with the best javascript framework there is Angular. All of that makes this library a great free to use Angular data table plugin.

Quick Example

Generic UI is easy to use, all you need to do is specify columns and source. Below is simple use of our grid with three columns and three items.

The creation of an gui-grid will be done in these simple steps:

Setup template

Specify columns and source in grid component Include GuiGridModule Setup template Add code below to you html template. Notice that <gui-grid> has two input [columns] and [source]. These will help you specify the shape of the grid and the data you wish to bind.

app.component.html:

<gui-grid [columns]="columns"
	  [source]="source">
</gui-grid>

Specify columns and source

Now write a variable inside app.component.ts named as columns, with it we will create column headers. In this example we are using two attributes:

• header represents displayed header name,
• field binds data from source.

You can find more column options in a columns section

app.component.ts:

columns: Array<GuiColumn> = [{
    header: 'Name',
    field: 'name'
}, {
    header: 'Type',
    field: 'type'
}, {
    header: 'Price',
    field: 'price'
}];

We got columns specified, now we need to bind it with source. Create new variable called source in app.component.ts and copy code below. Inside source are three items each has three values: name, type, price. These values are names of our columns fields.

app.component.ts

source: Array<any> = [{
    name: 'T-shirt',
    type: 'clothes',
    price: '15$'
}, {
    name: 'Shoes',
    type: 'footwear',
    price: '100$'
}, {
    name: 'Ball cap',
    type: 'headgear',
    price: '50$'
}];

Include GuiGridModule

The only thing that is left is to include GridModule in app.module.ts and we are done.

app.module.ts

import { GuiGridModule } from '@generic-ui/ngx-grid';

@NgModule({
	imports: [
		GuiGridModule
	]
})
export class BasicModule {
}

Installation

First you need to install @generic-ui/ngx-grid package with all it's peer dependencies.

Npm installation:

1npm install @generic-ui/ngx-grid element-resize-detector@1.1.14

Yarn installation:

1yarn add @generic-ui/ngx-grid element-resize-detector@1.1.14

Make sure that you use Angular in version at least 6.1.10 and Rxjs in version greater than 6.0.0.

Grid API

In this section you can find list of Inputs and Outputs that configures gui-grid.

In order to build the grid you need to have data source specified and defined columns. Source and columns need to work together, therefor columns have to be bound with data source. The basic section got an easy guide how to do it.

Generic UI is completely editable. You can specify:

• width and height,
• different theme like: Fabric, Material, Light, Dark,
• header placed at the top and/or bottom of the grid,
• disabled or enabled vertical and horizontal lines,
• rows color,
• loading indicator.

Generic UI also provides the output options that posts information anytime when:

• page changes,
• page size changes,
• grid row is selected.

Contact

Feel free to contact us with any questions or issues, as FAQ will be published in the near future. We will really appreciate it you letting us know how do you use this angular grid library. If you find any bug, let us know about it through Report an issue.

License:

Code released under the MIT license.