What is @angular/flex-layout?
@angular/flex-layout is a powerful layout library for Angular that provides a sophisticated API using Flexbox CSS and mediaQuery. It allows developers to create responsive and adaptive layouts with ease.
What are @angular/flex-layout's main functionalities?
Responsive Layouts
This feature allows you to create responsive layouts that adapt to different screen sizes. The example shows a row layout that changes to a column layout on extra-small screens.
<div fxLayout="row" fxLayout.xs="column">
<div fxFlex>Item 1</div>
<div fxFlex>Item 2</div>
<div fxFlex>Item 3</div>
</div>
Grid Layouts
This feature allows you to create grid layouts with flexible spacing and alignment. The example shows a row layout with items taking 25%, 50%, and 25% of the available space, respectively.
<div fxLayout="row" fxLayoutGap="10px">
<div fxFlex="25">Item 1</div>
<div fxFlex="50">Item 2</div>
<div fxFlex="25">Item 3</div>
</div>
Alignment and Justification
This feature allows you to align and justify content within a layout. The example shows a row layout with content centered both horizontally and vertically.
<div fxLayout="row" fxLayoutAlign="center center">
<div fxFlex>Centered Item</div>
</div>
Show/Hide Elements
This feature allows you to conditionally show or hide elements based on screen size. The example shows text that is hidden on screens larger than small.
<div fxShow fxHide.gt-sm>
This text is hidden on screens larger than small.
</div>
Other packages similar to @angular/flex-layout
ngx-flexible-layout
ngx-flexible-layout is another Angular library that provides a flexible layout system using CSS Flexbox. It offers similar functionalities to @angular/flex-layout but with a different API and potentially fewer features.
Flex Layout
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Angular Flex Layout provides a sophisticated layout API using FlexBox CSS + mediaQuery.
This module provides Angular (v4.x and higher) developers with component layout features using a
custom Layout API, mediaQuery observables,and DOM flexbox-2016 css.
The Layout engine intelligently automates the process of applying appropriate FlexBox CSS to
browser view hierarchies. This automation also addresses many of the complexities and workarounds
encountered with the traditional, manual, CSS-only application of Flexbox CSS.
Responsive API
The real power of Flex Layout, however, is its responsive engine.
The Responsive API
enables developers to easily specify different layouts, sizing, visibilities for different
viewport sizes and display devices.
Deprecated support
Beta.9 provides support for Angular 4.x, AOT, Universal builds. This also means that Beta.9 (or higher) will not support Angular 2.x.
Updated CHANGELOG
Please consult our CHANGELOG for latest changes and new features.
Why choose Flex-Layout
While other Flexbox CSS libraries are implementations of:
- pure CSS-only implementations, or
- the JS+CSS Stylesheets implementation of Angular Material v1.x Layouts.
Angular Flex Layout - in contrast - is a pure-Typescript UI Layout engine with an implementation that:
- uses HTML attributes (aka Layout API) to specify the layout configurations
- is currently only available for Angular (v4.1 or higher) Applications.
- is independent of Angular Material (v1 or v2).
- requires no external stylesheets.
- requires Angular v4.1 or higher.
Browser Support
NPM Installs
Playing with the nightly changes in master is also possible
npm install https://github.com/angular/flex-layout-builds.git
Or you can easily install the latest release from NPM using:
npm install @angular/flex-layout@latest --save
Quick Links
Developer Guides
Documentation
Demos
Templates
Quick Links
License
License: MIT
The sources for this package are in the Flex-Layout repository.
Please file issues and pull requests against that repo.