How to get started easily with Syncfusion Angular 7 Menu?

A quick start project that helps you to create an Angular 7 Menu with a minimal code configurations.

Angular 7 Menu

The following section explains you how to create a simple angular 7 Menu component.

Prerequisites

Before start, we need following items to create Angular Menu in Angular 7 application

• Node.js (latest version)
• Angular
• Angular CLI
• Visual studio code for editor.
• Typescript 2.6+

Dependencies

The angular 7 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 7 using following command.

  npm install -g @angular/cli@7.0.5
  

• Create a new Angular 7 project using angular cli and navigate to that folder.

  ng new <project name>
  cd <project name>
  

Adding Angular Menu

• After running the Angular 7 application successfully, configure the Angular Menu in this application. Install Angular Menu and EJ2 package using following command. The --save command will instruct the NPM to include a Menu package inside the dependencies section of the package.json.

  npm install @syncfusion/ej2-angular-navigations --save
  

• 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

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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'}
    ];
}

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