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Breadcrumpy 🍞

Awesome breadcrumbs for Angular!

Overview

What? 🤔

An awesome library to easily add breadcrumbs to your Angular application.

Simply add breadcrumb labels to your Angular routing
It supports asynchronous (reactive) breadcrumbs
Flexible configuration. However you like to roll!
~~Angular Material and PrimeNG examples included~~ (on roadmap)

Why? 🤷‍♂️

Existing breadcrumb libraries do not seem to support async (reactive) breadcrumbs. Also, this library provides many different configuration options.

Installation 🌩

npm

npm install ngx-breadcrumpy

yarn

yarn add ngx-breadcrumpy

Usage 🕹

Basic example

Just add a breadcrumb data property to your routes.

export const ROUTES: Routes = [
  {
    path: 'about',
    component: AboutComponent,
    data: { breadcrumb: 'About' }
  },
  {
    path: 'products',
    data: { breadcrumb: 'Products' }
  }
];

a) Use the default breadcrumb component:

Now, import the BreadcrumbsModule and add the included breadcrumb component to your template:

<bcy-breadcrumbs></bcy-breadcrumbs>
<router-outlet></router-outlet>

b) Or implement your own:

Alternatively, implement your own breadcrumb component using the BREADCRUMBS injection token:

import { Component, Inject } from '@angular/core';
import { Observable } from 'rxjs';
import { Breadcrumb, BREADCRUMBS } from 'ngx-breadcrumpy';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-breadcrumb',
  template: `
    <ng-container *ngFor="let b of breadcrumbs$ | async; last as last">
      <a [routerLink]="b.urlSegments">{{ b.label }}</a> <span *ngIf="!last"> / </span>
    </ng-container>
  `
})
export class BreadcrumbComponent {
  constructor(@Inject(BREADCRUMBS) public breadcrumbs$: Observable<Breadcrumb[]>) {}
}

A breadcrumb contains the following properties:

export interface Breadcrumb {
  /**
   * Label of the breadcrumb.
   */
  label: string;

  /**
   * Icon of the breadcrumb.
   */
  icon?: string;

  /**
   * Url to the breadcrumb (if not loading), if not using RouterLink.
   */
  url?: string;

  /**
   * Url segments to the breadcrumb (if not loading), useful for RouterLink.
   */
  urlSegments?: any[];

  /**
   * True if the breadcrumb is being loaded.
   */
  loading?: boolean;
}

Advanced configuration

Instead of static breadcrumbs, you may want to make your breadcrumb labels more dynamic. There are several ways to do this!

The breadcrumb configuration can be of many types:

string (label)
BreadcrumbLiteral (object with label and optionally an icon)
Observable<string | BreadcrumbLiteral>
(route: ActivatedRouteSnapshot) => string
(route: ActivatedRouteSnapshot) => BreadcrumbLiteral
(route: ActivatedRouteSnapshot) => Observable<string | BreadcrumbLiteral>
Type<BreadcrumbResolver>

Of course you can also make combinations. Please find some examples below.

1. Using functions

A function which returns a string, BreadcrumbLiteral or Observable<string | BreadcrumbLiteral>.

export const ROUTES: Routes = [
  {
    path: 'product/:id',
    data: {
      breadcrumb: (route: ActivatedRouteSnapshot) => `Product ${route.paramMap.get('id')}` 
    }
  }
];

2. Using a BreadcrumbResolver

You can also use a special BreadcrumbResolver service to benefit from dependency injection. The resolve method should return either a string, BreadcrumbLiteral or Observable<string | BreadcrumbLiteral>.

Asynchronous observables will not block the routing process, but make the breadcrumb appear when resolved.

export const ROUTES: Routes = [
  {
    path: 'product/:id',
    data: { breadcrumb: YourBreadcrumbResolver }
  }
];

@Injectable({ providedIn: 'root' })
class YourBreadcrumbResolver implements BreadcrumbResolver {
  public resolve(route: ActivatedRouteSnapshot): Observable<string> {
    // just some example of an async breadcrumb label...
    return of(`Product ${route.paramMap.get('id')}`).pipe(delay(300));
  }
}

3. Using Resolve guards

If you want to stick with resolve guards from @angular/router, you can. They will will dynamically add the breadcrumb property to your route.

export const ROUTES: Routes = [
  {
    path: 'product/:id',
    resolve: { breadcrumb: YourResolveGuard }
  }
];

@Injectable({ providedIn: 'root' })
class YourResolveGuard implements Resolve<string | BreadcrumbLiteral> {
  /* ... */
}

NOTE: keep in mind that the resolve guards from Angular Router are blocking! To get around this, use the previously mentioned BreadcrumbResolver. You can also make your guard return an Observable<Observable<string | BreadcrumbLiteral>>. Breadcrumpy will automatically support this.

Using a different route property

Just provide a BREADCRUMB_KEY token in your root module to change the default breadcrumb property name.

import { BREADCRUMB_KEY } from 'ngx-breadcrumpy';

@NgModule({
  providers: [
    {
      provide: BREADCRUMB_KEY,
      useValue: 'yourBreadcrumb'
    }
  ]
})
class AppModule {}