Ignite UI directives for AngularJS

Use the directives found in igniteui-angularjs.js to use Ignite UI controls in AngularJS pages. Work with the running samples here or quickly bootstrap your AngularJS project with this preconfigured application - Ignite UI AngularJS seed.

IMPORTANT The repository has been renamed from igniteui-angular to igniteui-angularjs. This is to avoid confusion caused by the new naming convention of Angular.

Requirements

• jQuery v1.8 and later
• AngularJS v1.0 and later
• Ignite UI 13.1 and later

Note: The Ignite UI AngularJS directives do not work with the Ignite UI ASP.NET MVC Helpers

Install

You can install this package either with npm or with bower. This is a development repo!

igniteui-angularjs depends on the ignite-ui-full licensed package. Follow this guide on setting up access to the Ignite UI private npm feed and add the dependency to the package.json.

"dependencies": {
	"@infragistics/ignite-ui-full": "latest"
}

npm

npm install igniteui-angularjs

bower

bower install igniteui-angularjs

Building

Build will produce an obfuscated and minified version of the src/igniteui-angularjs.js in the dist/igniteui-angularjs.min.js.
The build will also put the original and the minified version of the src/igniteui-angularjs.js in the dist/npm for distribution to npm. The build uses Grunt, so you need Node.js installed on your machine.
To build the project use the following steps:

1. Open a console in the folder where the igniteui-angularjs project is located
2. Run npm install
3. Run grunt build

Getting Started

There are two ways of getting started with the Ignite UI directives. The first one is to use the Ignite UI AngularJS quick start application which is described below. The other way is to configure the application yourself following the page setup instructions step by step.

Ignite UI AngularJS quick start application

Ignite UI AngularJS seed is an application skeleton for a typical AngularJS web app using the Ignite UI directives for AngularJS. You can use it to quickly bootstrap your angular webapp projects and dev environment for these projects.

The seed contains a sample AngularJS application and is preconfigured to install the Angular framework and a bunch of development and testing tools for instant web development gratification.

Page setup

In the page markup include the Ignite UI AngularJS directives file found in dist/igniteui-angularjs.min.js along with the Ignite UI scripts:

<script src="jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
<script src="angular.min.js"></script>

<script src="infragistics.core.js"></script>
<script src="infragistics.lob.js"></script>

<script src="igniteui-angularjs.min.js"></script>

Reference the igniteui-directives in your AngularJS module:

var sample_app = angular.module('igniteui-sample-app', ['igniteui-directives']);

Initializing controls

Controls can be initialized in two ways:

1. Markup Initialization: directly in an HTML page by using custom tags
2. Controller Initialization: a control placeholder is located in an HTML page, but its initialization options are located in the page controller

Markup Initialization

Custom tags

Each control implements a custom tag directive where the tag name is formed by splitting each capital letter in the control name with the - symbol (This naming convention follows the standard AngularJS normalization process).

Note: It is recommended to use closing tags (</ig-combo>) over the self-closing tags (<ig-combo/>), because the latter are known to make issues on some browsers (depending on the used document mode).

Examples:

Configuring Control Options

Simple type control options (string, number, bool etc.) are configured as an attributes on the control element. The options follow the same naming convention logic as the tag name.

Examples:

Defining complex type control options (arrays & objects) are configured as a child elements of the main control.

Example:

<ig-grid>
	<features>
		<feature name="Filtering">
		</feature>
	</features>
</ig-grid>

Handling events

Binding to control events is done again with attributes. Event attribute names are prefixed with the prefix event- followed by the event name delimited with the - symbol. Once defined the attribute values corresponds to a function name in the scope so you can gain access to the events.

Examples:

Controller Initialization

Each control also implements a custom attribute directive where the attribute name is formed by splitting each capital letter in the control name with the - symbol (this naming convention follows the standard AngularJS normalization process) and the attribute value corresponds to the scope object holding the control options.

Examples:

Element placeholder considerations

By default all controls have default element placeholders. You can configure element placeholder by setting the element attribute to a name of a DOM element.

Example: <ig-text-editor id="editor1" text-mode="multiline" element="textarea"></ig-text-editor>

One-way Data Binding

The following controls currently support one-way data binding:

1. igHtmlEditor
2. igDataChart
3. igSparkline
4. igFunnelChart

Two-way Data Binding

The following controls currently support two-way data binding:

1. igGrid
2. igCombo
3. igEditors
4. igTree

Note: When using control API methods which modify the data source outside the AngularJS framework you need to explicitly call Scope.$apply() in order to see AngularJS view updated.

Testing

There are two kinds of tests in igniteui-angularjs: Unit tests and End to End tests. All of them are written in Jasmine.

Setup

Simply do:

npm install

The command is preconfigured and it will also call bower install behind the scenes.

Then you need to instrument the source file with:

npm run instrument

Running Unit Tests

The easiest way to run the unit tests is to use the npm script:

npm test

This will start the Karma test runner and execute the tests. By default the browser is Chrome.

To run the tests for a single run you can use:

npm run test-single

To run the tests on Firefox you can use:

npm run test-single-firefox

End to end testing

These tests are run with the Protractor test runner, it simulates interaction.

Setup

Before proceeding you need to download and install the latest version of the stand-alone WebDriver tool:

npm run update-webdriver

After that make sure you have Java Development Kit (JDK) installed on your machine. It is required for the Standalone Selenium Server.

Running tests

So first the web server should be brought up so that Protractor can execute the tests against it:

npm start

Running the tests is done with:

npm run protractor

Note: You will need to run the protractor on a separate bash

Code coverage

After running the Karma or Protractor tests by default a coverage will be created for each of them.

To combine the both reports into one single report you need to execute:

npm run cover-combined

After that the default directory where you can open the code coverage is igniteui-angularjs/coverage/final/lcov/src.

Running specific coverage:

To view only the Karma coverage you can see it under coverage/karma/**/lcov-report/src.

To view the code coverage only for the Protractor you need to run the command:

npm run cover-protractor

After that the location is the same(igniteui-angularjs/coverage/final/lcov/src). That is because the Protractor report is not easily readable by default.

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