components

Components module has 3 main parts:

Core

Mostly services or one interesting core directive such as:

IncludeComponentDirective which is key building block in order to render dynamic UI (MetaUI).

e.g:

<aw-include-component [name]="'TextFieldComponent'"  [bindings]=bindings >
</aw-include-component>

You just pass a string and component is rendered dynamically.

GenericContainerComponent is really generic component which can help you literary render any html element. Also key building block for generating UI on the fly. We are using this component to dynamically wrap other components.

<aw-generic-container tagName="h1" >
    My title
</aw-generic-container>

Layouts

FormTable: Pretty much every place that needs to render form fields uses this component. It support either only 1 zone layout (1 column) or multi zone layout:

<aw-form-table [labelsOnTop]="labelsOnTop" >
   <aw-form-row [label]="'a label 1'" [name]="'name'" [size]="'medium'">
           <aw-input-field [name]="'name'" [value]="value1"></aw-input-field>
    </aw-form-row>

    <aw-form-row [label]="'a label 2'" [name]="'name2'" [size]="'medium'">
        <aw-input-field [name]="'name'" [value]="value1"></aw-input-field>
    </aw-form-row>=
</aw-form-table>

or

<aw-form-table [useFiveZone]="fiveZone" >
    <aw-left>
        <aw-form-row [label]="'a label 1'" [name]="'name'" [size]="'medium'">
            <aw-input-field [name]="'name'" [value]="value1"></aw-input-field>
        </aw-form-row>
    </aw-left>


    <aw-right>
        <aw-form-row [label]="'a label 1'" [name]="'name'" [size]="'medium'">
            <aw-input-field [name]="'name'"  [value]="value1"></aw-input-field>
        </aw-form-row>
    </aw-right>
</aw-form-table>

Declarative layout

This is still on our todo list in order to loose dependency on PrimeNG grid system or any css grid system we might use in the future. We just want to have a component that could look like this e.g. :

<aw-flex-layout pattern=" (hbox (vzone MYLEFT) (vzone MYRIGHT))" >
        <aw-flex-content zone="MYLEFT">
                some fields
        </aw-flex-content>
              
         <aw-flex-content zone="MYRIGHT">
                some fields        
         </aw-flex-content>

</aw-flex-layout>

It would render one horizontal box with two named columns left and right for holding a content. aw-flex-content would just place your content into specific zone. With this you can define any kinds of layouts on the page. Basically the layout pattern would be parsed into a tree and then we would traverse a tree and render each box and zone. We don't want developers to trouble with detail of any css layout system.

Widgets

Contains basic set of widgets extending existing 3th-party library http://www.primefaces.org/primeng/ to match our custom usecases.