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ng-notifications-bar

Angular.js, Animate.css, Glyphicons, based component for stylish and flexible application notifications.

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Overview

Web applications requires notify users of ongoing events. Common cases are errors, successful completion notifications etc. With ng-notifications-bar it's as easy as,

<body>
	<notifications-bar class="notifications"></notifications-bar>
	...

Installation

Npm installation,

$ npm install ng-notifications-bar --save

Or bower installation,

$ bower install ng-notifications-bar --save

Update your scripts and styles section or use the require for browserified applications.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="bower_components/ng-notifications-bar/dist/ngNotificationsBar.min.css" />
<script scr="bower_components/angular-notifications-bar/dist/ng-notifications-bar.min.js"></script>

For browserify applications, require module in yours application module,

require('ng-notifications-bar');

In case you are using sass in project, it's possible to just import ngNotificationsBar styles,

@import "../../node_modules/ng-notifications-bar/sass/ngNotificationsBar";

In application module,

angular.module('app', ['ngNotificationsBar']);

Please note, since ng-notifications-bar have a dependency on glyphicons you have to copy /fonts folder into yours /public folder manually.

API

The module consists of there elements - directive, service and provider.

Directive

notifications-bar element directive, should be placed once, typically right after <body> open tag.

<notifications-bar class="notifications"></notifications-bar>

Possible to use as attribute, as well

<div notifications-bar class="notifications"></div notifications-bar>

Service

notification service is used by controllers (or other directives), to show notifications.

app.controllers('app', function ($scope, api, notifications) {
	api.get({resource: 'tasks'})
		.then(function (tasks) {
			$scope.tasks = tasks;
		}, function (error) {
			notifications.showError({message: error.message});
		});

	$scope.submitTask = function () {
		api.post({resource: 'tasks'}, {description: this.description})
			.then(function () {
				notifications.showSuccess({message: 'Your task posted successfully'});
			}, function (error) {
				notifications.showError({message: 'Oh no! Task submission failed, please try again.'});
			});
	}
});

Provider

notificationsConfigProvider is used to override some notifications bar defaults.

app.config(['notificationsConfigProvider'], function (notificationsConfigProvider) {
	// auto hide
	notificationsConfigProvider.setAutoHide(true)

	// delay before hide
	notificationsConfigProvider.setHideDelay(3000)
}])

Settings

It is possible to setup the whole notifications bar module in module config and each notification separately in controller

Available options:

  • autoHide
  • hideDelay

During configuration

app.config(['notificationsConfigProvider'], function (notificationsConfigProvider) {
	// auto hide
	notificationsConfigProvider.setAutoHide(true);

	// delay before hide
	notificationsConfigProvider.setHideDelay(3000);
}])

Override in controller

app.controller('main', function ($scope, notifications) {
	$scope.showError = function () {
		notifications.showError({
			message: 'Oops! Something bad just happened! (hides faster)',
			hideDelay: 1500, //ms
			hide: true //bool
		});
	};
});

Development

Install bower dependencies,

$ bower install

Install npm dependencies,

$ npm install

Run grunt build,

$ grunt

as result, /dist folder is created with ready to use .js and .css file.

Project doesn't have tests at the moment, so run example and check the functionality,

$ grunt start:example

Licence

Copyright (c) 2014, [email protected]

MIT

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