Adding the notification component to an Angular application
Introduction
Angular is a development platform for building WEB, mobile and desktop applications using HTML, CSS and TypeScript (JavaScript). Currently, Angular is at version 15 and Google is the main maintainer of the project.
ngx-toastr is a notification component library with many configuration options.
Prerequisites
Before you start, you need to install and configure the tools:
Getting started
Create the Angular application
1. Let’s create the application with the Angular base structure using the @angular/cli with the route file and the SCSS style format.
2. Install and configure the Bootstrap CSS framework. Do steps 2 and 3 of the post Adding the Bootstrap CSS framework to an Angular application.
3. Install the ngx-toastr library.
4. Configure the ngx-toastr library. Change the angular.json file and add the toastr.css file as below.
5. Import the BrowserAnimationsModule and ToastrModule modules. Change the app.module.ts file and add the lines as below.
6. Remove the contents of the AppComponent class from the src/app/app.component.ts file. Import the ToastrService service and create the showSuccess, showInfo, showWarning and showError methods as below.
7. Remove the contents of the src/app/app.component.html file. Add the buttons as below.
8. Run the application with the command below.
9. Ready! Access the URL http://localhost:4200/ and check if the application is working. See the application working on GitHub Pages and Stackblitz.
The application repository is available at https://github.com/rodrigokamada/angular-toastr.
This tutorial was posted on my blog in portuguese.
