Schematics

4 Apr 20231 minute to read

The Syncfusion Angular components now supports the schematics.
The NPM packages are installed by using the Angular CLI add command.

Creating Angular application

To create an Angular application, instal the Angular CLI globally using the following command.

npm install -g @angular/cli

Then, create a new Angular application using the following command.

ng new my-app

This will download all the required files and initialize the NPM install.

Syncfusion package initialization

All the Syncfusion Angular packages can be installed using the following command in the CLI application.
ng add 'package-name'

For example,

ng add @syncfusion/ej2-angular-grids

The above command does the following configuration to your Angular app,

  • Adds @syncfusion/ej2-angular-grids package and its peer dependencies to your package.json file.
  • Imports the GridModule in your application module app.module.ts.
  • Registers the Syncfusion UI default theme (material) in the angular.json file.

Adding specific modules from multiple component package

The EJ2 Angular Schematics support adding a specific module from the component package to the app.module.ts file.

While initializing the package, we can pass the preferred module as a parameter using the following command.

ng add @syncfusion/<ej2-angular-package-name> --module=module_1,module_2,module_3

NOTE: While passing module names, there should be no space between them. If any, it will be ignored.

For example,

ng add @syncfusion/ej2-angular-popups -–module=tooltip
ng add @syncfusion/ej2-angular-inputs -–module=slider,colorpicker,maskedtextbox
ng add @syncfusion/ej2-angular-navigation -–module=treeview,tab,contextmenu

Invalid and misspelled module names

When you pass valid and invalid module names, the schematics will add all the valid modules and throw an error for the invalid modules.

For example,

ng add @syncfusion/ej2-angular-popups -–module=tooltip,treeview

Here, the tooltip is a valid module, but the treeview is invalid since it does not belong to @syncfusion/ej2-angular-popups package. Schematics add only the tooltip but it will throw the following error message for treeview. It is also applicable for a misspelt module name.

The treeview module is not a part of the package, @syncfusion/ej2-angular-popups. The available modules are Tooltip, Dialog.