How to get started easily with Syncfusion Angular 11 Menu Bar?
A quick start project that helps you to create an Angular 11 Menu with a minimal code configurations.
The following section explains you how to create a simple angular 11 Menu component.
Prerequisites
Before start, we need following items to create Angular Menu in Angular 11 application
- Node.js (latest version)
- Angular 11
- Angular CLI
- Typescript 4+
- Visual Studio Code for editor
Dependencies
The angular 11 Menu is created from the Syncfusion ej2-angular-navigations package from npmjs, which are distributed in npm as @syncfusion scoped packages.
Creating Angular Project
- Install Angular cli 11 using following command.
npm install -g @angular/cli@11.2.3
If you would like to follow and run the application in Angular6 or Angular5 or Angular4, you need to replace the CLI command version number with the corresponding angular version number.
npm install -g @angular/cli@<CLI VERSION>
- Create a new Angular 11 project using angular cli and navigate to that folder.
ng new angular11-app cd angular11-app
Adding Angular Menu
- After running the Angular 11 application successfully, configure the Angular Menu in this application. Install Angular Menu and EJ2 package using following command.
npm install @syncfusion/ej2-angular-navigations --save
The --save command will instruct the NPM to include a Menu package inside the dependencies section of the package.json.
- Import Menu from installed package.
- Import and inject the other required modules within the providers section of app.module.ts.
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser'; import { NgModule } from '@angular/core'; import { MenuModule } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-navigations'; import { AppComponent } from './app.component'; import { enableRipple } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base'; enableRipple(true); @NgModule({ declarations: [ AppComponent ], imports: [ BrowserModule, MenuModule ], providers: [], bootstrap: [AppComponent] }) export class AppModule {}
- Add the given below angular menu’s styles in styles.css.
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-base/styles/material.css"; @import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-navigations/styles/material.css";
- Add the angular Menu component in app.component.ts.
import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { MenuItemModel } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-navigations';
@Component({
selector: 'app-root',
template: `<ejs-menu [items]='menuItems'></ejs-menu>`
})
export class AppComponent {
public menuItems: MenuItemModel[] = [
{
text: 'File',
items: [
{text: 'Open'},
{text: 'Save'},
{text: 'Exit'}
]
},
{
text: 'Edit',
items: [
{text: 'Cut'},
{text: 'Copy'},
{text: 'Paste'}
]
},
{
text: 'View',
items: [
{text: 'Toolbar'},
{text: 'Sidebar'}
]
},
{
text: 'Tools',
items: [
{text: 'Spelling & Grammar'},
{text: 'Customize'},
{text: 'Options'}
]
},
{text: 'Go'},
{text: 'Help'}
];
}
- Now serve the application using following command.
ng serve
Once the files are compiled successfully, it will serve the site at localhost:4200
Screenshot:
Group Menu Items with Separator
The separators are both horizontal and vertical lines used to separate the menu items. You can enable separators to group the menu items using the separator property. In the following sample Open and Save sub menu items are grouped using the separator property.
[app.component.ts]
import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { MenuItemModel } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-navigations';
@Component({
selector: 'app-root',
template: `<ejs-menu [items]='menuItems'></ejs-menu>`
})
export class AppComponent {
public menuItems: MenuItemModel[] = [
{
text: 'File',
items: [
{text: 'Open'},
{text: 'Save'},
{separator: true},
{text: 'Exit'}
]
},
{
text: 'Edit',
items: [
{text: 'Cut'},
{text: 'Copy'},
{text: 'Paste'}
]
},
{
text: 'View',
items: [
{text: 'Toolbar'},
{text: 'Sidebar'},
{text: 'Full Screen'}
]
},
{
text: 'Tools',
items: [
{text: 'Spelling & Grammar'},
{text: 'Customize'},
{text: 'Options'}
]
},
{text: 'Go'},
{text: 'Help'}
];
}
Screenshot
Conclusion
I hope you enjoyed learning about how to get started easily with Angular 11 Menu Bar.
You can refer to our Angular Menu Bar feature tour page to know about its other groundbreaking feature representations documentation and how to quickly get started for configuration specifications. You can also explore our Angular Menu Bar example to understand how to create and manipulate data.
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