Simple, easily customizable, animated sidebar menu in angular 7+

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Simple sidenav is a simple, easily customizable, animated menu, with the possibility of infinite nesting that was built specifically for Angular apps.
Simple, easily customizable, animated sidebar menu in angular 7+

Installation

Install Plugin via NPM

npm install simple-sidenav --save



Module

# app.module.ts
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { BrowserAnimationsModule } from '@angular/platform-browser/animations';
 
import { AppRoutingModule } from './app-routing.module';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import { SimpleSidenavModule } from 'simple-sidenav';
 
@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    AppComponent
  ],
  imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    AppRoutingModule,
    SimpleSidenavModule,
    BrowserAnimationsModule
  ],
  bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }

Component

# app.component.ts
import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { SimpleMenu } from 'simple-sidenav';
 
@Component({
  selector: 'app-root',
  templateUrl: './app.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./app.component.scss']
})
export class AppComponent {
  menu: SimpleMenu[] = [...];
  animation: SimpleAnimation = {
    in: { value: 'slide-in-stagger' },
    out: { value: 'slide-out', duration: 200 }
  };
 
  onClick(item: {id: number|string, name: string, icon: string, index: number}) {
    ...
  }
}



HTML

# app.component.html
<sm-simple-sidenav
  [menu]="menu"
  [activeID]="'2'"
  [animation]="animation"
  [withArrow]="true"
  (onSidenav)="onClick($event)">
</sm-simple-sidenav>

Menu Example

menu: SimpleMenu[] = [
  { "id": "1", "name": "Ruby on Rails", "icon": "assets/images/rails.png", "menu": [
    { "id": "1", "name": "Models", "menu": [
      { "id": "1", "name": "Active Record Basics" },
      { "id": "2", "name": "Active Record Migrations" },
      { "id": "3", "name": "Active Record Validations" },
      { "id": "4", "name": "Active Record Callbacks" },
      { "id": "5", "name": "Active Record Associations" },
      { "id": "6", "name": "Active Record Query Interface", "menu": [...] }
    ] },
    ] },
  { "id": "2", "name": "Angular", "icon": "assets/images/angular.png", "menu": [...] },
  ...
]

List of properties you can use to customize the plugin

Props Default value Interface Description Required
[menu] none SimpleMenu[] See example above. true
[animation] false SimpleAnimation Pass object with animation name. See example above. false
(onSidenav) ---- -------- Pass callback function to listen for sidenav clicks. $event contains an id and index of the clicked element. false
[animate] false boolean Set to true if you want to animate the first appearance of the sidenav. false
[withArrow] true boolean Set to false if you want to hide an arrow icon. false
[activeID] none string Pass an ID of menu item if you want it to be opened by default. false

See live demo and download source code.

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This awesome plugin is developed by codica2. Visit their official github repository for more information and follow for future updates.


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