Angular Event Plugins
How to use
- Add
EventPluginsModule
to your app module:
```typescript
import {NgModule} from '@angular/core';
import {BrowserModule} from '@angular/platform-browser';
import {EventPluginsModule} from '@tinkoff/ng-event-plugins'; // <-- THIS
@NgModule({
bootstrap: [
/*...*/
],
imports: [
/*...*/
BrowserModule,
EventPluginsModule, // <-- GOES HERE
],
declarations: [
/*...*/
],
})
export class AppModule {}
```
BrowserModule
orBrowserAnimationsModule
must go first. You will see a warning if you mess the order.
- Use new modifiers for events in templates and in
@HostListener
:
- `.stop` to call stopPropagation() on event
- `.prevent` to call preventDefault() on event
- `.self` to skip bubbled events
- `.silent` to call event handler outside Angular's `NgZone`
- `.capture` to listen to events in
[capture phase](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Event/eventPhase)
- `.passive` to add
[passive event listener](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/EventTarget/addEventListener#improving_scrolling_performance_with_passive_listeners)
- `.once` to remove event listener after first callback
For example:
```html
<div (mousedown.prevent)="onMouseDown()">Clicking on this DIV will not move focus</div>
```
```html
<div (click.stop)="onClick()">Clicks on this DIV will not bubble up</div>
```
```html
<div (mousemove.silent)="onMouseMove()">Callbacks to mousemove will not trigger change detection</div>
```
```html
<div (click.capture.stop)="onClick()">
<div (click)="never()">Clicks will be stopped before reaching this DIV</div>
</div>
```
- You can also re-enter
NgZone
and trigger change detection, using@shouldCall
decorator that takes a predicate
function as argument:
```html
Scrolling this DIV will only trigger change detection and onScroll callback if it is scrolled to bottom
```
```typescript
import {shouldCall} from '@tinkoff/ng-event-plugins';
export function scrollFilter({
scrollTop, scrollHeight, clientHeight
}: HTMLElement): boolean {
return scrollTop === scrollHeight - clientHeight;
}
// ...
@shouldCall(scrollFilter)
onScroll(element: HTMLElement): void {
this.someService.requestMoreData();
}
```
All examples above work the same when used with@HostListener
andCustomEvent
Important notes
- Predicate is called with the same arguments as the decorated method and in the context of class instance (has access
this
)
- Decorated method will be called and change detection triggered if predicate returns
true
.
- Predicates must be exported named function for AOT, arrow functions will trigger build error.
.silent
modifier will not work with built-in keyboard pseudo-events, such askeydown.enter
orkeydown.arrowDown
NgZone
inside internal handlers.
Observable host bindings
In this library there's also a plugin that enables observable host bindings. Sounds weird to do host binding with event plugin, but the code is actually pretty simple. You can read more about it in this article. To use it you need to couple@HostListener
and @HostBinding
on the same Observable
property with following syntax:
```ts
@HostBinding('$.disabled')
@HostListener('$.disabled')
readonly disabled$ = asCallable(this.service.loading$)
```
This supports all the native Angular syntax, such as class.class-name
or style.width.px
.
IMPORTANT NOTES:
- Until this issue is resolved you would have to use
NO_ERRORS_SCHEMA
in your module in order to bind to arbitrary properties
asCallable
is a utility function from this library that simply addsFunction
to the type so Angular thinks it
- To bind attributes you need to add
.attr
modifier in the end, not the beginning like in basic Angular binding. This
attr.
string in @HostBinding
decorator:
```ts
@HostBinding('$.aria-label.attr')
@HostListener('$.aria-label.attr')
readonly label$ = asCallable(this.translations.get$('label'));
```