How to use FullCalendar within Angular 2

Question

I'm fairly new to Angular 2 and are trying to get a grip of how to integrate Angular 2 with existing Javascript UI Framework libraries.

Now I'm trying to play with the jQuery plugin http://fullcalendar.io Or actually I want to use the premium add-on called Scheduler.

However I created a simple example in Plunker...

Feel free to use it and enlighten me in how to make it display and also how to respond to clicking on specific events.

https://plnkr.co/edit/eMK6Iy

...the component FullCalendarComponent needs modification of course. Problem is I don't know how.

import {Component} from 'angular2/core';

@Component({
    selector: 'full-calendar',
    template: '<p>Here I would like to see a calendar</p>'
})

export class FullCalendarComponent { }

Answer 1

ng-fullcalendar wraps the fullcalendar module for Angular 2.

https://github.com/jamaks/ng-fullcalendar

I do not think wrapping it by yourself is a good idea and ng2-fullcalendar is not under maintain. ng-fullcalendar is a relatively new project and has many active check-in.

Answer 2

The angular2-fullcalendar is not running with the latest versions of Angular CLI. I opened a bug informing about the solution here: Angular2-fullcalendar is not an NgModule. Unexpected directive CalendarComponent

Answer 3

I created an npm package

npm install angular2-fullcalendar --save

you can use the options input to fully customize the fullcalendar component

check out the docs here https://github.com/nekken/ng2-fullcalendar

Answer 4

Before starting, some prerequisites in javascript directory:

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery.min.js

fullcalendar.js

calendar.js

angular.js

bootstrap.js

Files that will be needed in CSS directory:

fullcalendar.css

bootstrap.css

Now create the controller to handle the data and events:-

angular.module('myCalendarApp', ['ui.calendar']);
function CalendarCtrl($scope, $http) {

    var date = new Date();
    var d = date.getDate();
    var m = date.getMonth();
    var y = date.getFullYear();
    var currentView = "month";


    //event source that pulls from google.com
    $scope.eventSource = {
            url: "http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/usa__en%40holiday.calendar.google.com/public/basic",
            className: 'gcal-event',           // an option!
            currentTimezone: 'America/Chicago' // an option!
    };


    //This will call onLoad and you can assign the values the way you want to the calendar
    //here DataRetriever.jsp will give me array of JSON data generated from the database data
    $http.get('DataRetriever.jsp').success(function(data) {
        for(var i = 0; i < data.length; i++)
        {
            $scope.events[i] = {id:data[i].id, title: data[i].task,start: new Date(data[i].start), end: new Date(data[i].end),allDay: false};
        }
    });

    /*
    //to explicitly add events to the calendar
    //you can add the events in following ways
    $scope.events = [
      {title: 'All Day Event',start: new Date('Thu Oct 17 2013 09:00:00 GMT+0530 (IST)')},
      {title: 'Long Event',start: new Date('Thu Oct 17 2013 10:00:00 GMT+0530 (IST)'),end: new Date('Thu Oct 17 2013 17:00:00 GMT+0530 (IST)')},
      {id: 999,title: 'Repeating Event',start: new Date('Thu Oct 17 2013 09:00:00 GMT+0530 (IST)'),allDay: false},
      {id: 999,title: 'Repeating Event',start: new Date(y, m, d + 4, 16, 0),allDay: false},
      {title: 'Birthday Party',start: new Date(y, m, d + 1, 19, 0),end: new Date(y, m, d + 1, 22, 30),allDay: false},
      {title: 'Click for Google',start: new Date(y, m, 28),end: new Date(y, m, 29),url: 'http://google.com/'}
    ];
    //we don't need it right now*/


    //with this you can handle the events that generated by clicking the day(empty spot) in the calendar
    $scope.dayClick = function( date, allDay, jsEvent, view ){
        $scope.$apply(function(){
          $scope.alertMessage = ('Day Clicked ' + date);
        });
    };


    //with this you can handle the events that generated by droping any event to different position in the calendar
     $scope.alertOnDrop = function(event, dayDelta, minuteDelta, allDay, revertFunc, jsEvent, ui, view){
        $scope.$apply(function(){
          $scope.alertMessage = ('Event Droped to make dayDelta ' + dayDelta);
        });
    };


    //with this you can handle the events that generated by resizing any event to different position in the calendar
    $scope.alertOnResize = function(event, dayDelta, minuteDelta, revertFunc, jsEvent, ui, view ){
        $scope.$apply(function(){
          $scope.alertMessage = ('Event Resized to make dayDelta ' + minuteDelta);
        });
    };

    /*
    //this code will add new event and remove the event present on index
    //you can call it explicitly in any method
      $scope.events.push({
        title: 'New Task',
        start: new Date(y, m, 28),
        end: new Date(y, m, 29),
        className: ['newtask']
      });

    $scope.events.splice(index,1);*/


    //with this you can handle the click on the events
    $scope.eventClick = function(event){           
        $scope.$apply(function(){
          $scope.alertMessage = (event.title + ' is clicked');
        });
    };


    //with this you can handle the events that generated by each page render process
    $scope.renderView = function(view){    
        var date = new Date(view.calendar.getDate());
        $scope.currentDate = date.toDateString();
        $scope.$apply(function(){
          $scope.alertMessage = ('Page render with date '+ $scope.currentDate);
        });
    };


    //with this you can handle the events that generated when we change the view i.e. Month, Week and Day
    $scope.changeView = function(view,calendar) {
        currentView = view;
        calendar.fullCalendar('changeView',view);
        $scope.$apply(function(){
          $scope.alertMessage = ('You are looking at '+ currentView);
        });
    };


    /* config object */
    $scope.uiConfig = {
      calendar:{
        height: 450,
        editable: true,
        header:{
          left: 'title',
          center: '',
          right: 'today prev,next'
        },
        dayClick: $scope.dayClick,
        eventDrop: $scope.alertOnDrop,
        eventResize: $scope.alertOnResize,
        eventClick: $scope.eventClick,
        viewRender: $scope.renderView
      }    
    };

    /* event sources array*/
    $scope.eventSources = [$scope.events, $scope.eventSource, $scope.eventsF];
}

Now in your view file(jsp, gsp or html) add the following codes:- This have to be added before the head, AngularJS norms (for more detail go through AngularJS tutorial)

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<html lang="en" ng-app="myCalendarApp" id="top">

This will give the basic calendar structure with 3 agenda buttons.

<div class="btn-toolbar">
    <div class="btn-group">
        <button class="btn btn-success" ng-click="changeView('agendaDay', myCalendar)">Day</button>
        <button class="btn btn-success" ng-click="changeView('agendaWeek', myCalendar)">Week</button>
        <button class="btn btn-success" ng-click="changeView('month', myCalendar)">Month</button>
    </div>
</div>
<div class="calendar" ng-model="eventSources" calendar="myCalendar" config="uiConfig.calendar" ui-calendar="uiConfig.calendar"></div>

This is where the alert message will be shown

<div class="alert-success calAlert" ng-show="alertMessage != undefined && alertMessage != ''">
    <h4>{{alertMessage}}</h4>
</div>

This will give the list of task for the current date

<ul class="unstyled">
    <li ng-repeat="e in events | filter:currentDate">
        <div class="alert alert-info">
            <a class="close" ng-click="remove($index)"><i class="icon-remove"></i></a>
            <b> {{e.title}}</b> - {{e.start | date:"MMM dd"}}
        </div>
    </li>
</ul>

Answer 5

Here is the way I managed to get the Scheduler working in an Angular2 project. I started with the component called Schedule created by PrimeNG as suggested in a comment above by Cagatay Civici.

I had to modify the file scheduler.component.ts like below.

export class Scheduler {
// Support for Scheduler
@Input() resources: any[];   
@Input() resourceAreaWidth: string;            
@Input() resourceLabelText: string; 
// End Support for Scheduler

// Added functionality
@Input() slotLabelFormat: any;
@Input() titleFormat: any;
@Input() eventBackgroundColor: any;
// End added properties

@Input() events: any[];
............
............
ngAfterViewInit() {
    this.schedule = jQuery(this.el.nativeElement.children[0]);
    this.schedule.fullCalendar({
        resources: this.resources,
        resourceAreaWidth: this.resourceAreaWidth,
        resourceLabelText: this.resourceLabelText,
        titleFormat: this.titleFormat,
        slotLabelFormat: this.slotLabelFormat,
        eventBackgroundColor: this.eventBackgroundColor,
        theme: true,
        header: this.header,
...........

Then I had to add the css and script for fullcalendar and scheduler to the index.html.