ng-notifications-bar

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

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

MIT

tommaitland / ng-notifications-bar