Angular Icon Picker

• ==> Library still in work in progress
• Largely inspired by ngx-color-picker

Angular IconPicker Directive/Component with no dependencies required.

This is an Icon Picker Directive/Component for Angular 2+.

Installing and usage

npm install ngx-icon-picker --save

Or with yarn :

yarn add ngx-icon-picker

Load the module for your app:

import { IconPickerModule } from 'ngx-icon-picker';

@NgModule({
  ...
  imports: [
    ...
    IconPickerModule
  ]
})

Use it in your HTML template:

<input [iconPicker]="icon" (iconPickerSelect)="onIconPickerSelect(newIcon)"/>

Available inputs and output :

[iconPicker]                // The icon to select in the grid.

[ipWidth]                    // Use this option to set icon picker dialog width (default: '230px').
[ipHeight]                   // Use this option to force icon picker dialog height (default: 'auto').
[ipMaxHeight]                // Use this option to force icon picker dialog max-height (default: '200px').

[ipIconPack]                 // Icon pack (Font Awesome / Bootstrap Glyphicon): 'fa', 'bs', 'all' (default: 'all').
[ipFallbackIcon]             // Is used when the icon is undefined (default: 'fas fa-user-plus').
[ipPosition]                 // Dialog position: 'right', 'left', 'top', 'bottom' (default: 'right').
[ipPlaceHolder]              // Search input placeholder (default: 'Search icon...').

(iconPickerSelect)           // On selected icon value.

Installing from a brand new @angular/cli project

Version of @angular/cli used is V1.2.0.

• Generate a new project (here we use LESS preprocessor) : ng new myproject --style less
• cd myproject
• Update package.json with :

      "bootstrap": "3.3.7",
      "font-awesome": "4.7.0",
      "ngx-icon-picker": "0.0.8",

  or with npm command :

  npm install --save [email protected]
  npm install --save [email protected]
  npm install --save [email protected]

• Install dependancies : yarn install (or npm install).
• Update styles.less with :

@import '~bootstrap/less/bootstrap.less';
@import '~font-awesome/less/font-awesome.less';

• Import IconPickerModule in app.module.ts (also CommonModule and ReactiveFormsModule):

import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';

import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import { CommonModule } from '@angular/common';
import { IconPickerModule } from 'ngx-icon-picker/dist/index';
import { ReactiveFormsModule } from '@angular/forms';

@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    AppComponent
  ],
  imports: [
    CommonModule,
    ReactiveFormsModule,
    BrowserModule,
    IconPickerModule
  ],
  providers: [],
  bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }

• Update the template app.component.html :

<div class="container">
  <div [formGroup]="myFormGroup">
    <label>Icon</label>
    <div class="input-group">
        <span class="input-group-addon"><i [ngClass]="iconCss.value"></i></span>
        <input type="text" name="iconCss" class="form-control"
               formControlName="iconCss"
               [iconPicker]="icon"
               [ipPosition]="'bottom'"
               [ipWidth]="'250px'"
               [ipPlaceHolder]="'Choose an icon'"
               [ipFallbackIcon]="fallbackIcon"
               (iconPickerSelect)="onIconPickerSelect($event)"/>
      </div>
  </div>
</div>

• Update the component app.component.ts :

import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { FormControl, FormGroup } from '@angular/forms';

@Component({
  selector   : 'app-root',
  templateUrl: './app.component.html',
  styleUrls  : ['./app.component.less']
})
export class AppComponent implements OnInit {
  myFormGroup: FormGroup;
  iconCss = new FormControl();
  fallbackIcon = 'fas fa-book';
  icon: string;

  ngOnInit(): void {
    this.myFormGroup = new FormGroup({iconCss: this.iconCss});
  }

  onIconPickerSelect(icon: string): void {
    this.iconCss.setValue(icon);
  }
}

• Start your project with yarn start (or npm start) and go to localhost:4200

• You should now be able to change icon by clicking input field :

Build the library

npm install
npm run build
npm run inline

Library development

npm link
cd example
npm link ngx-icon-picker

Running the example

cd example
npm install
npm start

go to localhost:4200