Ng Select

Overview:

The ng-select is a lightweight all-in-one UI Select, Multiselect, and Autocomplete Angular component. It offers a variety of features such as custom binding, keyboard navigation, themes, and more. It provides support for browsers compatible with Angular and allows for extensive customization.

Features:

• Custom Binding: Enables custom binding to a property or object.
• Custom Templates: Supports custom option, label, header, and footer templates.
• Virtual Scroll: Provides support for large data sets with virtual scrolling (>5000 items).
• Infinite Scroll: Allows for infinite scrolling functionality.
• Keyboard Navigation: Facilitates navigation using the keyboard.
• Multiselect: Supports selecting multiple options.
• Flexible Autocomplete: Offers autocomplete with client/server filtering.
• Customization: Allows for custom search, tags, append to, and group items.
• Output Events: Provides events for interacting with selected items.
• Accessibility: Ensures accessibility features are implemented.
• Themes: Supports theming to customize the appearance.

Installation:

1. Step 1: Install ng-select

   • NPM: npm install ng-select
   • YARN: yarn add ng-select

2. Step 2: Import NgSelectComponent and Modules

   // Standalone component
   import { NgSelectComponent } from 'ng-select';
   
   // NgModule
   import { NgSelectModule } from 'ng-select';
   import { FormsModule } from '@angular/forms';
   

3. Step 3: Include a Theme

   • Add a theme to your application for better styling.

4. Step 4: Configuration (Optional)

   • Customize global configuration and localization messages with NgSelectConfig service.

5. Usage

   • Define options in your component and use the ng-select component in your template.

6. SystemJS Configuration

   • Adjust SystemJS configuration to point to the UMD bundle.

Summary:

The ng-select Angular component is a versatile solution for creating user-friendly select, multiselect, and autocomplete elements. With features like custom templates, keyboard navigation, accessibility, and theming support, it offers a comprehensive toolkit for enhancing user interactions. By following the installation steps and utilizing its extensive API, developers can easily integrate and customize the ng-select component in their Angular applications.