@proangular/ngx-gist

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An Angular Material and HighlighJs styled display box for GitHub gist snippets and local code examples.

ng add @proangular/ngx-gist

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📇 Index

- ℹ️ Information
- 📄 Description
- 📦 Installation
- 📋 Prerequisites
- 📥 Install Component
- 💻 Usage
- ⏳ Default - fetched gist
- 🔄 Fetched gist (forced no cache)
- 🎨 Setting the code style theme
- 🎯 Displaying one specific file
- 📂 Displaying multiple, specific files
- 📝 Displaying a basic code snippet (without a remote gist)
- 👻 Hiding line numbers
- 🧩 Component API
- 🧪 Compatibility
- 🔨 Development
- ⚖️ Licensing
- 🏁 Wrapping Up

ℹ️ Information

What is Gist? Gist is an easy method to share snippets or excerpts of data with
others. A gist can be a string of code, a bash script or some other small piece
of data. These bits of information are hosted by GitHub as a repository.

More info in the following links:

- Little Known Ways To Utilize GitHub Gists:
https://www.liquidweb.com/kb/little-known-ways-to-utilize-github-gists/
- GitHub Docs:
https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/writing-on-github/editing-and-sharing-content-with-gists/creating-gists
- Create a gist: https://gist.github.com/

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📄 Description

Behold, this package contains an Angular Material and Highlight.js styled
element which displays your GitHub gists in a conveniant, easy to view
interface. Don't have a gist? No problem, display your own code snippets by just
passing in a direct model (NgxGist.create({ ... }))! All files from the
remote/local gist are displayed in separate tabs for users to easily navigate.
Many optional features and themes are available.

GitHub gists can be created here: https://gist.github.com/

Enjoy!

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📦 Installation

Using Node Package Manager ([NPM][url-node-js]) in a new terminal window run the
following commands to install the required dependencies.

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Angular Material

More information on theming Angular Material:
https://material.angular.io/guide/theming

``bash
ng add @angular/material
`

HighlightJs

More information on theming HighlightJs: https://highlightjs.org/

`bash
npm install highlight.js --save
`

highlightjs-line-numbers.js

`bash
npm install highlightjs-line-numbers.js --save
`

io-ts

`bash
npm install io-ts --save
npm install io-ts-types --save
`

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`bash
ng add @proangular/ngx-gist@latest
`

or

`bash
npm install @proangular/ngx-gist --save
`

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💻 Usage

Import one or all of the following custom form components to use in your Angular
application where used:

`diff
+ import { NgxGistComponent } from '@proangular/ngx-gist';

// Import to module
@NgModule({
...
imports: [
+ NgxGistComponent,
...
],
})

...

// or component
@Component({
...
imports: [
+ NgxGistComponent,
...
],
})
`

Decide if you'd like to display a local, or remote gist:

1. Provide your gist id into the input gistId, or

2. Provide a direct NgxGist mobdel in the input gist.

Note: For example your gist id would be TH1515TH3G15T1D in:

https://gist.github.com/YourUserName/TH1515TH3G15T1D

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ngx-gist will fetch the gist once and store it locally for 24 hours. In that
timeframe, if the user returns or visits another page where this gist was
previously loaded, it will reload the content without having to reach out to
GitHub again.

`html

`

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Force no cache. This will force ngx-gist to retrieve the content live from
GitHub every time this content loads. This is disabled by default, but could be
useful if your gists change frequently.

`html

`

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Select a "highlight.js" code theme to apply. Note: Only one theme can be loaded
on a single page at a time! The first theme to load will apply to all gists on
the page.

`html

`

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Display only one specific file when your gist has many.

`html

`

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You can also display any number of specific files by name.

`html
[displayOnlyFileNames]="['csstest.css', 'main.ts']"
gistId="TH1515TH3G15T1D"
>
`

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These are not fetched from GitHub and are brought in elsewhere from your
application (seperate HTTP request, or statically for example). With this method
you can display code snippets without having to create a remote gist. You can
easily create a new code snippet/gist object using NgxGist.create({ ... }).
Note: no "Open Gist on GitHub" link will display.

`html

`

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Line numbers are enabled by default, but you can turn them off like so.

`html

`

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🧩 Component API

| Input Name | Input Typing | Default Value | Description |
| ------------------------ | ------------------------------------ | ------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| codeTheme | HighlightJsTheme \| undefined | undefined | The highlight.js code theme to use and display. Note: Only _one_ theme can be loaded on a single page at a time! The first theme to load will apply to all gists on the page. Available themes here: https://unpkg.com/browse/highlight.js@11.6.0/styles/ |
| displayOnlyFileNames | string \| string[] \| undefined | undefined | Display in the DOM only the selected filename(s) from the gists files array. Can be either a string or string array. File names much match exactly, be sure to remove any leading or trailing whitespace in the provided strings. |
| gist | NgxGist \| undefined | undefined | Provide a static gist model here directly which will be displayed if no gistId is provided for remote fetching. Also this model will be displayed should a fetch fail when retrieving gistId, or overwritten once the pertaining gistId data is fetched. |
| gistId | string | undefined | Provide the GitHub gist id to be fetched and loaded. This can be found in URL of the gists you create. For example the id TH1515TH3G15T1D in: https://gist.github.com/YourUserName/TH1515TH3G15T1D. Alternatively, provide a value directly in the sibling input gist. |
| hideGistLink | bool | false | Optionally hide the gist link which opens the gist on GitHub. The gist links automatically display for remote gists, but can be hidden with this feature. |
| materialTheme | MaterialPrebuiltTheme \| undefined | undefined | Define a material core theme to apply. Ideally, you should already have your global material theme set at the root of your project so try to avoid using this if possible. Note: These are loaded from the CDN: https://unpkg.com |
| showLineNumbers | bool | true | Display or hide the line numbers in your gist code snippets. |
| useCache | bool | true | Cache the GitHub gist request in local memory for 24 hours. GitHub has a request limit, so this helps in reducing bandwidth. Loads previously fetched gist content from the users machine on refresh and page re-visits. |

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🧪 Compatibility

| Angular version | @proangular/ngx-gist | Install |
| --------------- | -------------------- | ------------------------------------ |
| v21 | v21.x | ng add @proangular/ngx-gist@^21 |
| v20 | v20.x | ng add @proangular/ngx-gist@^20 |
| v19 | v19.x | ng add @proangular/ngx-gist@^19 |
| v18 | ------ | Untested |
| v17 | v1.3.x | ng add @proangular/ngx-gist@~1.3.0 |
| v16 | v1.2.x | ng add @proangular/ngx-gist@~1.2.0 |
| v15 | v1.1.x | ng add @proangular/ngx-gist@~1.1.0 |
| v14 | v1.0.x | ng add @proangular/ngx-gist@~1.0.8 |
| v13 | v1.0.x | ng add @proangular/ngx-gist@~1.0.8 |
| v12 | v1.0.x | ng add @proangular/ngx-gist@~1.0.8 |

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🔨 Development

Please submit all issues, and feature requests here:
[https://github.com/ProAngular/ngx-gist/issues][url-new-issue]

Contribution:

1. Clone the repo and create a new branch:

- git clone https://github.com/ProAngular/ngx-gist.git
- git checkout -b username/feature-or-bug-description

2. Bump up the version of package in package.json and package-lock.json,
commit all changes, push.

- git add -A
- git commit -m "My commit message"
- git push origin username/feature-or-bug-description

3. Submit code in published PR for review and approval. Add a good description
and link any possible user stories or bugs.

- Create a new pull request.

4. Allow CI actions to completely run and verify files.
5. Add/ping reviewers and await approval.

Thank you for any and all contributions!

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⚖️ Licensing

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the
LICENSE file for the pertaining license text.

SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT`

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🏁 Wrapping Up

Thank you to the entire Angular team and community for such a great framework to
build upon. If you have any questions, please let me know by opening an issue
[here][url-new-issue].

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| :---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | :------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Fin. Happy programming friend!

Cody Tolene

[url-new-issue]: https://github.com/ProAngular/ngx-gist/issues
[url-node-js]: https://nodejs.org/