NGX Copy to clipboard

Your module to copy content to clipboard in Angular applications easier 🎯.

Why Copy to clipboard?

This is a common concept, but why use this directive instead solve it via server-side rendering?

The idea of this directive is make this process transparent and easier. So the main point is integrate this directive with other tooling process, such as:

• Server-side rendering;
• Progressive rendering;
• Any other that you like :)

You can integrate with WebSockets or handling this in a EventSourcing architecture. It's totally transparent for you and you can integrate easier in your application.

• Demo
• Install
• Setup
• Development
• Contribute

Demo

Try out our demo on Stackblitz!

Install

You can get it on NPM installing ngx-copy-to-clipboard module as a project dependency.

npm install ngx-copy-to-clipboard --save

Setup

You'll need to add NgxCopyToClipboardModule to your application module. So that, the <ngx-copy-to-clipboard> components will be accessible in your application.

...
import { NgxCopyToClipboardModule } from 'ngx-copy-to-clipboard';
...
@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    YourAppComponent
  ],
  imports: [
    ...
    NgxCopyToClipboardModule,
    ...
  ],
  providers: [],
  bootstrap: [YourAppComponent]
})

export class YourAppComponent {}

Now you just need to add a configuration in your components and, after that, you can use the ngx-copy-to-clipboard component in your templates, passing the required attributes to make it work properly.

import { Component } from '@angular/core';

@Component({
  selector: 'component-docs',
  template: `
    <section class="section">
      <h2>Copying data from textarea element</h2>
      <textarea name="text-content" id="text-content" rows="5" cols="33">
Demonstration content...
      </textarea
      >
      <ngx-copy-to-clipboard
        target="#text-content"
        [action]="cut"
        [success]="onSuccess"
        [error]="onError"
        >Copy</ngx-copy-to-clipboard
      >
    </section>
  `,
})
export class ComponentDocsComponent {
  copiedText = '';

  constructor() {
    this.onSuccess = this.onSuccess.bind(this);
    this.onError = this.onError.bind(this);
  }

  onSuccess(e) {
    this.copiedText = e.text;
  }

  onError(e) {
    this.copiedText = 'Error trying to copy your text';
  }
}

You should bind the success and error function callbacks before passing through the component to make sure your component will be running based on the same scope.

Development

Run demo locally

1. This project uses Angular CLI as base. That means you just need to run npm start and access the link http://localhost:4200 in your browser

Run tests

1. Run npm test for run tests. In case you want to test using watch, please use npm run tdd

Publish

this project is using np package to publish, which makes things straightforward. EX: np <patch|minor|major> --contents=dist/ngx-copy-to-clipboard

For more details, please check np package on npmjs.com

Contribute

For any type of contribution, please follow the instructions in CONTRIBUTING.md and read CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md files.

Author

Wilson Mendes (willmendesneto)

• https://twitter.com/willmendesneto
• http://github.com/willmendesneto