How to get started easily with Syncfusion Angular 8 button ?

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A quick start project that helps you to create an Angular 8 Button with a minimal code configurations.

Angular 8 Button

The following section explains the steps required to create a simple angular 8 button component.

Prerequisites

Before start, we need following items to create Angular Button in Angular 8 application.

Node.js (latest version)
Angular
Angular CLI
Visual studio code for editor.
Typescript 3.4+

Dependencies

The angular 8 button created from the Syncfusion ej2-angular-buttons package from npmjs, which are distributed in npm as @syncfusion scoped packages.

Creating Angular Project

Install Angular cli 8 using following command.
```
npm install -g @angular/cli@8.1.1
```

Note:

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

Adding Angular Button

After running the Angular 8 application successfully, configure the Angular Button in this application. Install Angular Button and EJ2 package using following command. The --save command will instruct the NPM to include a button package inside the dependencies section of the package.json.
```
npm install @syncfusion/ej2-angular-buttons --save
```

Import Button from installed package in app/app.module.ts.

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 { ButtonModule } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-buttons';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
 
@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    AppComponent
  ],
  imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    ButtonModule
  ],
  providers: [],
  bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }

Add the given below angular button’s styles in styles.css.

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

Add the angular buttons component in app.component.ts.

import { Component } from '@angular/core';
 
@Component({
  selector: 'app-root',
  template: `<button ejs-button>Button</button>`
})
export class AppComponent {}

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

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

Screenshot:

Button Preview

Change Button Type

To change the default button to flat button, set the cssClass to e-flat and text content of the button is set using content property.

import { Component } from '@angular/core';
 
@Component({
  selector: 'app-root',
  template: `<button ejs-button cssClass='e-flat' content='Button'></button>`
})
export class AppComponent {}

Summary

Refer to our documentation and online samples for more features. If you have any queries, please let us know in comments below. You can also contact us through our Support forum or Direct-Trac. We are happy to assist you!

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