@coveo/angular

The @coveo/angular package contains the necessary components to set up a search page using Coveo Headless and Angular Material with the Angular CLI.

If you want to create a new Coveo Headless-powered search page with the Angular web framework from scratch, it is simpler to use the coveo ui:create:angular command in the Coveo CLI. The Coveo CLI will handle a lot of complexity for you. Calling the @coveo/angular package directly from the Angular CLI should rather be done to help you integrate a search page to an already existing Angular project.

Installation

To add a Coveo Headless-powered search page using Material Angular to an existing Angular project, execute the following steps:

• Run ng add @coveo/angular --org-id=<org-id> --api-key=<api-key>, where you replace <org-id> by the unique identifier of your Coveo organization, and <api-key> by an API key granting the impersonate privilege in the target organization.
• Answer the questions prompted in your terminal to configure your interface styling.
• In your project, navigate to the new server folder. This is an Express server which generates Coveo search tokens.
• The folder should contain a .env.example file. Create a copy of that file and rename it .env.
• In that new .env file, replace all placeholder variables (<...>) by the proper information for your organization. For more involved configurations, you can modify the request parameters used in the middlewares/searchToken.ts file.
• You can now go back to the root directory of your project and serve it by running ng serve.

Contributing

Component schematics

TODO

Development

TODO

Testing

To test the schematic locally, install @angular-devkit/schematics-cli globally and use the schematics command-line tool. That tool mimics generate and add commands of the Angular CLI.

Check the documentation with

schematics --help

First of all, create a new project:

ng new my-test-app --routing --style css

Make sure to link your local schematic to the project you want to use it in.

cd my-test-app
npm link /path/to/coveo-cli/packages/angular

You can also use npm pack in your schematics project, then npm install /path/to/artifact.tar.gz in your Angular project. This mimics npm install more than npm link.

Run your schematic

schematics @coveo/angular:headless-engine --org-id<org-id> --api-key=<api-key> --dry-run

Unit Testing

npm run test will run the unit tests, using Jasmine as a runner and test framework.

Publishing

To publish, simply do:

npm run build
npm publish

That's it!