ngx-timeline-albe

Albe Timeline ^1.6.0

Albe Timeline is a simple yet highly customizable component that helps you render a responsive horizontal (or vertical) timeline from JSON data. The data will be automatically grouped by year and the events will be sorted by date.

• Content HTML highly manipulable.
• Styles for the template are easily customizable.
• Simplifies the aspects of internationalization, displaying dates and alternatives texts in a local format.

Version history:

Library	Angular
Lastet	17.3.0
1.5.0	16.0.0
1.4.1	15.2.6
1.3.0	14.2.0
1.2.11	11.2.4
1.2.0	10.1.2
1.1.0	8.0.0

Use license

The component is open source and released for free commercial use at no cost. Donations are welcome.

Installation

$ npm install ngx-timeline-albe

How to use

Import the module

import { NgxTimelineAlbeModule } from 'ngx-timeline-albe';

@NgModule({
    imports: [ NgxTimelineAlbeModule ],
    ...
})
export class AppModule {}

Template

<ngx-timeline [itens]="data"></ngx-timeline>

• Instance with options:

<ngx-timeline [itens]="data" 
    [formatDate]="'dd MMMM'" 
    [sortDesc]="true"
    [showMenu]="true" 
    [showGroup]="true" 
    [theme]="'basic'">
</ngx-timeline>

Component

import { TimelineItem } from 'ngx-timeline-albe';

  //The Json object is also accepted in string format.
  data: Array<TimelineItem> | String;

ngOnInit() {

    //Object type
    this.data = [
      {
        datetime: new Date('2020-03-29 23:59:59'),
        header: 'Sample of header',
        body: [
          {
            tag: 'h1',
            content: "Lorem ipsum"
          },
          {
            tag: 'p',
            content: 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, nisl lorem, wisi egestas orci tempus class massa.'
          }],
        footer: 'Sample of footer. See <a href=\"https://github.com/Albejr/ngx-timeline\" target=\"_blank\">more details</a>'
      }
    ];

    //OR Json format
    this.data = `[{
      "datetime": "2020-03-29 23:59:59",
      "header": "Sample of header",
      "body": [{
          "tag": "h1",
          "content": "Lorem ipsum"
        },
        {
          "tag": "p",
          "content": "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, nisl lorem, wisi egestas orci tempus class massa."
        }
      ],
      "footer": "Sample of footer. See <a href='https://github.com/Albejr/jquery-albe-timeline' target='_blank'>more details</a>"
    }]`;
  }

Options

Name		Type	Default	Description
[itens]	required	Array<TimelineItem> or String Json	[ ]	List of itens to be displayed.
[showGroup]	optional	Boolean	true	Sets the visibility of the annual grouper.
[showMenu]	optional	Boolean	true	Sets the anchor menu visibility for annual groupings (depends on 'showGroup').
[sortDesc]	optional	Boolean	true	Defines ordering of items, true: Descendente, false: Ascendente.
[formatDate]	optional	String	'dd MMMM'	Sets the date display format: 'dd MMMM' 'dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss' 'MM/dd/yyyy' 'yyyy/MM/dd'
[language]	optional	String	'pt-BR'	Specifies manually the display language of texts (i18n), if the token LocaleID is not configured.
[theme]	optional	String	'basic'	Defines the style: 'basic' 'horizontal' 'minimalist' 'mobile' 'vertical'

TimelineItem Type

Name		Type	Description
datetime	required	Date
icon	optional	string
header	optional	string
body	required	Array<ItemBody>
footer	optional	string

ItemBody Type

Name		Type	Description
tag	required	string
content	required	string
attr	optional	TagAttribute

TagAttribute Type

Name		Type	Description
href	optional	string
target	optional	string
title	optional	string
src	optional	string
width	optional	string
cssclass	optional	string

Html Structure

We'll have a similar result:

<ngx-timeline>
    <div id="timeline-albe" class="clasic">
        <section>
            <header class="group">2020</header>
            <div class="item">
                <div class="badge">
                    <span>29/03</span>
                </div>
                <article>
                    <header>Sample of header</header>
                    <div class="body">
                        <span>2017-03-29 23:59:59</span>
                        <h1>Lorem ipsum</h1>
                        <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, nisl lorem, wisi egestas orci tempus class massa.</p>
                    </div>
                    <footer>Sample of footer.</footer>
                </article>
                <div class="badge last">
                </div>
            </div>
        </section>
    </div>
<ngx-timeline>

Styling guide

There are several classes that help you to create your custom styles app.component.css

:host ::ng-deep #timeline-albe.minimalist {
  color: inherit;
  font-size: inherit;
  width: inherit;
  margin: 10px;
}

Notes

• The datetime element must meet the ISO 8601 standard in year-month-day format "yyyy-MM-dd" or "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"

Demo App

Follow these instructions to run the demo:

1. Clone the repository to your local machine
2. From the project folder, run npm i to install all required dependencies
3. Run ng b ngx-timeline-albe to build in dist folder.
4. Run ng s to serve the project from a live-updating server.
5. Go to localhost:4200 to see the demo site

To do

• [x] If 'json' (string) is passed, convert to 'object'.
• [x] Displays default message.
• [ ] Insert animation.
• [x] Sort items by date.
• [x] Multiple languages.
• [x] Multiple styles.
• [ ] Document CSS customization.
• [x] Document 'json' or 'object'.

Inspired on the plug-in: https://github.com/Albejr/jquery-albe-timeline