00-getting-started.md

Getting started with Angular

A brief guide on how to build a THEOplayer in an Angular environment.

Note that this information is for a basic player in a local testing environment. Additional information may be needed for specific cases.

Step-by-step guide:

1. Make sure you have the Angular CLI installed

npm install -g @angular/cli

2. If needed, create a new workspace and initial application ng new appname

3. In the root project, create a new component for the player (in this case appname)

cd appname
ng generate component theoplayer

4. add the THEOplayer.js files to the root project
5. In index.html add the /THEOplayer.js as a script tag and /ui.css as a stylesheet
6. In theoplayer.component.html add

<div class="theoplayer-container video-js theoplayer-skin"></div>

7. In theoplayer.component.ts add

import { Component, OnInit } from "@angular/core";
import * as THEOplayer from "../../../THEOplayer.js";

@Component({
  selector: "app-theoplayer",
  templateUrl: "./theoplayer.component.html",
  styleUrls: ["./theoplayer.component.css"]
})
export class TheoplayerComponent implements OnInit {
  constructor() {}

  ngOnInit() {
    this.createPlayer();
  }

  createPlayer() {
    const element = document.querySelector(".theoplayer-container");

    const player = new THEOplayer.Player(element, {
      libraryLocation: ""
    });

    player.source = {
      sources: [
        {
          src: "//cdn.theoplayer.com/video/elephants-dream/playlist.m3u8",
          type: "application/x-mpegurl" // sets type to MPEG-DASH
        }
      ]
    };
  }
}

Then

import * as THEOplayer from "../../../THEOplayer.js";

will make sure to get everything needed from our sdk.

9. In app.component.html add the following code to display the player in the app component.

<app-theoplayer></app-theoplayer>

10. Profit.

Related articles

• https://angular.io/guide/quickstart