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Angular Contentful Service

A contentful.js wrapper for Angular that makes our lives just a bit easier. Also, requests to the Contentful API are cached for improved performance!

Installation

Install with NPM

npm i --save angular-contentful-service

Install contentful

If you haven't already, make sure you install contentful

npm i --save contentful

Add to your app module

import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import { ContentfulModule } from 'angular-contentful-service';

@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    AppComponent
  ],
  imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    ContentfulModule.forRoot({
      space: 'yadj1kx9rmg0', // your space ID
      accessToken: 'fdb4e7a3102747a02ea69ebac5e282b9e44d28fb340f778a4f5e788625a61abe', // your access token
    }),
  ],
  bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }

Use the Contentful Service

import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { ContentfulService } from 'angular-contentful-service'

@Component({
  selector: 'app-root',
  templateUrl: './app.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./app.component.css']
})
export class AppComponent {

  constructor(private cs: ContentfulService) {}

  getEntries(query?: any) {
    this.cs.getEntries(query).then(res => console.log(res));
  }

  getEntry(id: string, query?: any) {
    this.cs.getEntry(id, query).then(res => console.log(res));
  }
}

Configuration options

{
  space: string;
  accessToken: string;
  insecure?: boolean;
  host?: string;
  basePath?: string;
  httpAgent?: any;
  httpsAgent?: any;
  proxy?: {
    host: string;
    port?: number;
    auth?: {
      username: string;
      password: string;
    };
  };
  headers?: any;
  application?: string;
  integration?: string;
  resolveLinks?: boolean;
  retryOnError?: boolean;
}

Service methods

getEntries()

Return all entries filtered by Contentful query

getEntries(query?: any): Promise<EntryCollection<any>>

Information on EntryCollection type found here: https://github.com/contentful/contentful.js/blob/master/index.d.ts#L34

Example:

this.cs.getEntries({include: 2});

getEntry()

Return a single entry object based on id and optional query params

getEntry(id: string, query?: any): Promise<Entry<any>>

Information on Entry type found here: https://github.com/contentful/contentful.js/blob/master/index.d.ts#L65

Example:

this.cs.getEntry('3xd57HfJlSM2qmm8C6cueK', {include: 2})

Contribute

Please feel free to contribute to this repository. To do so, simply clone this repository and run ng serve to get the project working locally.

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