FullCalendar in Angular: From Setup to Interactive Drag-and-Drop

Whether you are building an appointment booking system, an ERP resource manager, or a team planner, adding an interactive calendar view is a common requirement in enterprise frontend applications.

Instead of writing a custom date grid from scratch, FullCalendar provides a mature, performant solution that integrates cleanly with Angular.

In This Tutorial:

1. Package Installation: Setting up @fullcalendar/angular, @fullcalendar/core, and plugin packages
2. Standalone Component Setup: Importing FullCalendarModule and registering required plugins (dayGridPlugin, timeGridPlugin, interactionPlugin)
3. Event Management: Loading and binding dynamic events using typed data models
4. Enabling Drag-and-Drop: Handling eventDrop and eventResize events to update state in real time
5. Custom UI & Tooltips: Styling the calendar to fit custom application themes

Read the complete step-by-step tutorial on SunnyWriteUps.