I'm trying to get a legacy jQuery library called SlickGrid working in Angular 4 and I cannot seem to figure out the best way to do that (I'm also new to Angular 4 so that doesn't help). So far, I found an npm package for @types/slickgrid and installed it. I then try to import it in my component with this
import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import * as $ from 'jquery';
import {Grid} from 'slickgrid';
However this throws me some error in the console
app.component.ts(5,24): error TS2306: File 'C:/demo/node_modules/@types/slickgrid/index.d.ts' is not a module.
I also tried with this import 'slickgrid'
but I get the same error
Here is my full component.ts
file
import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import * as $ from 'jquery';
import {Grid} from 'slickgrid';
@Component({
selector: 'my-app',
template: `<td valign='top' width='50%'>
<div id='myGrid' style='width:600px;height:500px;'></div>
</td>`
})
export class AppComponent implements OnInit {
ngOnInit(): void {
let grid;
let columns = [
{id: 'title', name: 'Title', field: 'title'},
{id: 'duration', name: 'Duration', field: 'duration'},
{id: '%', name: '% Complete', field: 'percentComplete'},
{id: 'start', name: 'Start', field: 'start'},
{id: 'finish', name: 'Finish', field: 'finish'},
{id: 'effort-driven', name: 'Effort Driven', field: 'effortDriven'}
];
let options = {
enableCellNavigation: true,
enableColumnReorder: false
};
let data = [];
for (let i = 0; i < 500; i++) {
data[i] = {
title: 'Task ' + i,
duration: '5 days',
percentComplete: Math.round(Math.random() * 100),
start: '01/01/2009',
finish: '01/05/2009',
effortDriven: (i % 5 === 0)
};
}
$(() => {
grid = new Grid('#myGrid', data, columns, options);
});
}
}
And my index.html
where I import the libraries (I could go with WebPack eventually, if I can get this going)
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/node_modules/slickgrid-6pac/slick.grid.css"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/components/css/SlickGrid.css"/>
</head>
<body>
<my-app> Loading... </my-app>
</body>
<script src="/node_modules/slickgrid-6pac/lib/jquery-1.11.2.js"></script>
<script src="/node_modules/slickgrid-6pac/lib/jquery.event.drag-2.2.js"></script>
<script src="/node_modules/underscore/underscore-min.js"></script>
<script src="/node_modules/slickgrid-6pac/slick.core.js"></script>
<script src="/node_modules/slickgrid-6pac/slick.grid.js"></script>
<!-- Polyfill(s) for older browsers -->
<script src="/node_modules/core-js/client/shim.min.js"></script>
<script src="/node_modules/zone.js/dist/zone.min.js"></script>
<script src="/node_modules/reflect-metadata/Reflect.js"></script>
<script src="/node_modules/systemjs/dist/system.src.js"></script>
<script src="/dist/basic_slickgrid_ts/systemjs.config.js"></script>
<script>
System.import('app').catch(function(err){ console.error(err); });
</script>
</html>
I really need to get this working and I don't know what else to try.
Thanks a lot to @Rahul Singh who posted a comment that answers my question. With the instructions shown below, I was able to create a new Open Source lib Angular-Slickgrid which everyone can now enjoy.
Install Angular-CLI and modify the angular-cli.json
file
{
"apps": [
{
"styles": [
"../node_modules/slickgrid/slick.grid.css",
"styles.css"
],
"scripts": [
"../node_modules/slickgrid/lib/jquery-1.8.3.js",
"../node_modules/slickgrid/lib/jquery.event.drag-2.2.js",
"../node_modules/slickgrid/slick.core.js",
"../node_modules/slickgrid/slick.grid.js"
],
}
Do an npm install of the legacy library
npm install slickgrid
add <div>
for the grid in the component.html
file
<div id='myGrid' style='width:600px;height:500px;'></div>
and finally the component.ts
import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import $ from 'jquery/dist/jquery';
import jQuery from 'jquery/dist/jquery';
// using external js modules in Angular
declare var Slick: any;
@Component({
selector: 'app-root',
templateUrl: './app.component.html',
styleUrls: ['./app.component.css']
})
export class AppComponent implements OnInit {
title = 'app';
ngOnInit(): void {
let grid;
const columns = [
{id: 'title', name: 'Title', field: 'title'},
{id: 'duration', name: 'Duration', field: 'duration'},
{id: '%', name: '% Complete', field: 'percentComplete'},
{id: 'start', name: 'Start', field: 'start'},
{id: 'finish', name: 'Finish', field: 'finish'},
{id: 'effort-driven', name: 'Effort Driven', field: 'effortDriven'}
];
const options = {
enableCellNavigation: true,
enableColumnReorder: false
};
let data = [];
for (let i = 0; i < 500; i++) {
data[i] = {
title: 'Task ' + i,
duration: '5 days',
percentComplete: Math.round(Math.random() * 100),
start: '01/01/2009',
finish: '01/05/2009',
effortDriven: (i % 5 === 0)
};
}
$(() => {
grid = new Slick.Grid('#myGrid', data, columns, options);
});
}
}
and it works, again thanks @Rahul