NgxPerfectLayout

The perfect layout for your Angular app: responsiveness, eye candy and many other features.

Demo

Why?

Because in each project based on the Angular framework I was copy/pasting the wheel, changing small details every time. Elder projects would not benefit from the enhancements made in new ones. A general frustration arose.

Features

Developer friendly

Just import the module in your app.module.ts

import { NgxPerfectLayoutModule, NgxPerfectLayoutService } from '@ziocampo/ngx-perfect-layout';

imports: [
  NgxPerfectLayoutModule,
],  
providers: [
    NgxPerfectLayoutService
]

Then use the component right in the app.component.html:

<ngx-perfect-main-layout>
    <ngx-perfect-page-header-left>
        header left zone
    </ngx-perfect-page-header-left>
    <ngx-perfect-page-header-right>
        header right zone
    </ngx-perfect-page-header-right>
    <ngx-perfect-page-content>
        <router-outlet></router-outlet>
    </ngx-perfect-page-content>
    <ngx-perfect-page-footer-left>
        footer left zone
    </ngx-perfect-page-footer-left>
    <ngx-perfect-page-footer-right>
        footer right zone
    </ngx-perfect-page-footer-right>
</ngx-perfect-main-layout>

For more details refer to the showcase project.

Service centerer for options

NgxPerfectLayout is centered around the NgxPerfectLayoutService. Any options you should want to set are there. In any component you can ask for the service by DI:

import { NgxPerfectLayoutService } from '@ziocampo/ngx-perfect-layout';

constructor(
  private _layoutService: NgxPerfectLayoutService
) { }

and then set some option as shown below.

A decent layout, optimized for responsiveness

Layout automatically adapts to many resolutions, from large panels to small ones.

Snap points are the ones that come with the @angular/flex-layout package.

A nice "wait" animation

Just by toggling a bool option you can display a nice wait animation.

this._layoutService.showWaitingAnimation = true;

Support for your own themes or for the standard ones

NgxPerfectLayout supports standard Angular themes (Indigo Pink etc.) as well as custom ones you can craft manually or at Material Theme Generator

To provide a list of custom themes just import them as usual in your styles.scss and declare a list of Theme objects:

import { Theme } from '@ziocampo/ngx-perfect-layout';

public themes: Theme[] = [{
    displayName: "Blue tango",
    name: "blue-tango-theme"
}, {
    displayName: "Coffee",
    name: "coffee-theme"
}, {
    displayName: "Relax",
    name: "relax-theme"
}];

then assign it to the themes parameter:

this._layoutService.themes = themes;

The themes will be displayed in a mat-select within the app drawer and applied upon the (selectionChange).

Menu from angular routes, the easy way

When you define your routes, just add a data element of type RouteData

import { RouteData } from '@ziocampo/ngx-perfect-layout';

export const routes: Routes = [
  {
    path: "",
    pathMatch: "full",
    redirectTo: "home"
  },
  {
    path: "home", 
    component: HomePageComponent,
    data:{
      displayName: "Home",
      iconClass: "la-home"
    } as RouteData
  },
  {
    path: "no-options", 
    component: NoOptionsPageComponent,
    data:{
      displayName: "No options",
      iconClass: "la-broom"
    } as RouteData
  }
];

then pass your routes to the routes parameter. Routes containing a RouteData element with a displayName will be shown as navigation.

this._layoutService.routes = routes;

If you want to have hierarchical menus (just one level) you can group menu items by adding a groupName:string property in the RouteData element:

  {
    path: "child1", 
    component: NoOptionsPageComponent,
    data:{
      displayName: "Child 1",
      iconClass: "la-broom",
      groupName:"With children"
    }as RouteData
  },
  {
    path: "child2", 
    component: NoOptionsPageComponent,
    data:{
      displayName: "No options",
      iconClass: "la-stream",
      groupName: "With children"
    }as RouteData
  },

Your hierarchical menu will be displayed as an expansion panel:

All the options

Option	Meaning	Type	Default value
title	The title of the page. If provided the page will display an H1 tag with the title.	string	undefined
routes	A Routes object.	Routes	undefined
themes	An array of Theme objects. If provided there will be a select in the drawer to allow switching the theme.	Theme[]	[]
showWaitingAnimation	If set to true a nice wait animation will be shown.	boolean	false
useBackgroundAnimation	If set to true a nice animated background will be shown on the drawer.	boolean	false
loginMode	If set to true hides anything not compatible with a login page, e.g.: drawer.	boolean	false
hamburgerMenuButtonPosition	Position of the drawer and drawer toggle.	"left", "right"	"left"
menuMinWidth	Minimum width of the menu, can be any CSS unit.	string	"260px"