How to get started easily with Syncfusion Angular 9 List Box ?

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A quick start project that helps you to create an Angular 9 List Box with a minimal code configurations.

Angular 9 List Box

The following section explains you how to create a simple Angular 9 List Box component.

Prerequisites

Before start, we need following items to create Angular List Box in Angular 9 application

Node.js (latest version)
Angular
Angular CLI
Visual studio code for editor.
Typescript 3.7+

Dependencies

The Angular 9 List Box is created from the Syncfusion ej2-angular-dropdowns package from npmjs, which are distributed in npm as @syncfusion scoped packages.

Creating Angular Project

Install Angular cli 9 using following command.
```
 npm install -g @angular/cli@9.0.2
```

Note:

If you would like to follow and run the application in Angular 8 or Angular 7 or Angular 6 or Angular 5 or Angular 4, 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 9 project using angular cli and navigate to that folder.
```
ng new <project name>
cd <project name>
```

Adding Angular List Box

After running the Angular 9 application successfully, configure the Angular List Box in this application. Install Angular List Box and EJ2 package using following command. The --save command will instruct the NPM to include a List Box package inside the dependencies section of the package.json.
```
npm install @syncfusion/ej2-angular-dropdowns --save
```

Import list Box 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 { ListBoxComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-dropdowns';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import { FormsModule, ReactiveFormsModule } from '@angular/forms';
 
 
@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    AppComponent,
    ListBoxComponent,
    
 
  ],
  imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    FormsModule,
    ReactiveFormsModule
 
  ],
  providers: [],
  bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule {}

Add the given below angular list box’s styles in styles.css.

@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-dropdowns/styles/material.css";

Add the angular List Box component in app.component.ts.

 import { Component,ViewEncapsulation } from '@angular/core';
@Component({
    selector: 'app-root',
    template: `<ejs-listbox [dataSource]='data'></ejs-listbox>`,
    encapsulation: ViewEncapsulation.None
})
 
export class AppComponent {
    public data: { [key: string]: Object }[] = [
        { text: 'Hennessey Venom', id: 'list-01' },
        { text: 'Bugatti Chiron', id: 'list-02' },
        { text: 'Bugatti Veyron Super Sport', id: 'list-03' },
        { text: 'SSC Ultimate Aero', id: 'list-04' },
        { text: 'Koenigsegg CCR', id: 'list-05' },
        { text: 'McLaren F1', id: 'list-06' },
        { text: 'Aston Martin One- 77', id: 'list-07' },
        { text: 'Jaguar XJ220', id: 'list-08' },
        { text: 'McLaren P1', id: 'list-09' },
        { text: 'Ferrari LaFerrari', id: 'list-10' }
    ];
}

Now serve the application using following command.
```
ng serve 
```

Once the files are compiled successfully, it will serve the site at localhost:4200

Screenshot:

angular 8 list box

Summary

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