Craft cross framework Components using

Angular

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Pankaj Parkar

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Angular is ideal for building complete applications

Rob Wormald, Angular Team

But it becomes challenging for scenarios that don't fit in Single Page Application Model

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Challenges

  1. Reusability of code (cross platform)

  2. Enhance existing application

  3. Content Management System pages

  4. Embed Widgets inside another app

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Running Angular on Mixed environment

  • AngularJS
  • React
  • Polymer 
  • jQuery
  • Aurelia
  • Vue
  • Vanilla JS
  • etc..

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Angular components are tough to use outside Angular

Rob Wormald, Angular Team

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Why you want to use Angular outside?

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Ecosystem

Can we use something that follow Web Standards and address our issue?

Web Component

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Before moving further, lets flashback

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HTML 1

HTML 2

(1990)

INPUT   FORM  SELECT

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BODY   A  H2   IMG   UL   LI

(1995)

HTML 5

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INPUT    FORM    SELECT

BUTTON   VIDEO   AUDIO

DIALOG   CANVAS   TEXTAREA

DATALIST   IMG   PROGRESS

Input had 8 types when it got introduced

Now input have 22 types

Unix

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(1970)

ls

lpr

cat

grep

sort

chmod

echo

alias

less

more

head

who

time

find

tail

echo

kill

mkdir

pwd

ps

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Do One Thing and Do It Well

Unix Philosophy

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy

  • Write programs that do one thing and do it well.
  • Write programs to work together.
  • Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.
  • Output of one program should become input for other.

Web Component

  1. Template
  2. Shadow DOM
  3. Html Imports
  4. Custom Elements

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Web Components are a set of features currently being added by the W3C to the HTML and DOM specifications that allow for the creation of reusable widgets or components in web documents and web applications.

Specs

1. Template

<template id="content">
  <h1>Hello World!</h1>
  <img src="success.jpg" />
  <script> 
    //some big javascript 
  </script>
</template>
var content = document.getElementById('content');
var div = document.createElement('div');
var clone = document.importNode(template.content, true);
document.body.appendChild(div);

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We have similar technique, that used inside `ng-template`

2. Shadow DOM

<body>
  <div>
    <#shadow-root>
      <h1 class=”title”></h1>
    </shadow-root>
  </div>
</body>

We can do this for component using viewEncapsulation set to Native.

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<body>
    <div>Hello, World!</div>
    <script>
      var host = document.querySelector(‘div’);
      var root = host.createShadowRoot();
      root.textContent = ‘Hello, Treehouse!’;
    </script>
</body>

3. HTML Imports

<head>
   <link 
    rel="import" 
    href="my-widget.html" />
</head>

This spec is deprecated, this is not going to implement by browsers.

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4. Custom Element

<body>
  <my-navbar></my-navbar>
  <div class="content">
    <my-sidebar></my-sidebar>
    <my-main-content></my-main-content> 
  </div>
  <my-footer></my-footer>
</body>

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Custom Element

  • Standard way of defining web component
  • Extend the browser vocabulary

Custom element should have dash used in their name, they can't be single word

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Web Component Support

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Custom Elements

class FancyDatePicker extends HTMLElement {}

window.customElements
  .define(‘fancy-datepicker’, FancyDatePicker);

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It has below native DOM objects

  1. Attributes

  2. Events

  3. Properties

  4. Method

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Custom Elements - Attributes

class FancyDatePicker extends HTMLElement {

  static observedAttributes = [‘current-date’];

  attributeChangedCallback(oldV, newV, key){
    //update the DOM somehow
  }
}

<fancy-datepicker 
  current-date=”10/10/2017”>
</fancy-datepicker>

const picker = document.querySelector(‘fancy-datepicker’);
picker.setAttribute(‘current-date’, new Date().toString());

Declarative

Imperative

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Custom Elements - Properties

class FancyDatePicker extends HTMLElement {

  set currentDate(value){
    //update the DOM
  }

  get currentDate(){ … }  
}
const fancyDatePicker = 
    document.querySelector(‘fancy-datepicker’);
fancyDatePicker.currentDate = new Date();

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Custom Elements - Event

const picker = document.querySelector(‘fancy-datepicker’);

const onDateChange = (date) => console.log(date);
picker.addEventListener(‘date-change’, onDateChange);

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Custom Elements - Method

class FancyDatePicker extends HTMLElement {
  emitDateChange(details){
    let dateChangeEv = 
       new CustomEvent(‘date-change’,{details});
    this.dispatchEvent(dateChangeEv);
  } 
}
const fancyDatePicker = 
     document.querySelector(‘fancy-datepicker’);
fancyDatePicker.emitDateChange(); //calling method

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Usage

Custom Elements - Reactions /Lifecycle Hooks

class FancyDatePicker extends HTMLElement {

  connectedCallback(){ … }

  disconnectedCallback(){ … }

  attributeChangedCallback(oldV, newV, key){ … }

  adoptedCallback(){ … }

}

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Web Component works out of the box in Angular, it supports by design

<my-angular-app>
  <my-input
    [attr.foo]=”someString”
    [someProp]=”someProp”
    (someEvent)=”doStuff()”>
   </my-input>
</my-angular-app>

Angular with Web Component

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Then why not use Web Components?

Text

https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/web-components/examples/howto-checkbox

Source: http://pascalprecht.github.io/slides/angular-elements/#/14

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Angular API looks similar to CE

NG

CE

@HostBindings

@Input

@Output

@Lifecycle Hooks

Attributes

Properties

CustomEvent

Reactions

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Angular Elements

Angular Elements

  • Export Angular Components as custom-element that can re-usable on any application
  • Self bootstrapping
  • Follow current web standard
  • Now zone is optional since Angular version 5

Angular Component packaged as web component

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web-component

Component

Angular Elements API

Component

Even other guys are doing it

SkateJS

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How to setup Angular elements

// app.module.ts
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { NgModule, Injector, Type } from '@angular/core';
import { createCustomElement } from '@angular/elements';

import { HelloWorldComponent } from './hello-world';
export const CEComponents = [HelloWorldComponent];

@NgModule({
  imports: [BrowserModule],
  declarations: CEComponents,
  //Step 1: Include all Custom elements here
  entryComponents: CEComponents
})
export class AppModule { 
  constructor(private injector: Injector){
    //Step 2: Register CEs here with module Injector
    const customElement = createCustomElement(VoteComponent, 
       { injector: this.injector }
    );
    customElements.define('vote-cmp', customElement);
  }
  ngDoBootstrap(){ }
}

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Demo Time

  • Angular with CE Component - Demo
  • ReactJS - Demo

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How it look in general

<html>
  <head>
    ...
    ...
    <script src="my-customelement.bundle.js"></script>
    ...
  </head>
  <body>
    ...
    <my-ng-component></my-ng-component>
    ...
  </body>
</html>

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Where is it heading?

<html>
  <head>
    ...
    ...
    <script src="angular-mini.js"></script>
    <script src="my-custom-element.bundles.js"></script>
    ...
  </head>
  <body>
    ...
    <my-ng-component></my-ng-component>
    ...
  </body>
</html>

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jQuery datepicker

Jquery dialog modal example

<html>
  <head>
    ...
    ...
    <script src="jquery.js"></script>
    <script src="jquery.datepicker.js"></script>
    ...
  </head>
  <body>
    ...
    <input id="my-datepicker" />
    <script type="javascript">
       $('#my-datepicker').datePicker({
         format: 'dd-MM-yyyy'
       })
    </script>
    ...
  </body>
</html>

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Future?

Angular Ivy Renderer (beta) +

Angular Elements

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Q & A

References

  • https://blog.angular.io/the-angular-team-at-angularmix-2d56fd7fde65

  • https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/21706

  • http://slides.com/andreiantal/ng-europe_angular-elements#/33

  • http://slides.com/andreiantal/ng-europe_angular-elements#/3

  • https://github.com/andrei-antal/ng-europe-demo-angular-elements (Thanks Andrei Antal)

  • https://github.com/pankajparkar/ng-india-angular-elements-demo

  • https://github.com/pankajparkar/ng-india-vueapp

  • https://github.com/pankajparkar/ng-india-reactapp

  • https://medium.com/@ezekizibzibadze/angular-and-web-components-a-k-a-angular-elements-e009b057cd75

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy

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