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Syncfusion Essential® UI Kit for Angular: Accelerate UI Development with Customizable Blocks

TL;DR: Syncfusion’s Essential® UI Kit for Angular offers pre-built, customizable, and reusable UI blocks to accelerate front-end development and make it easier to create beautiful and functional web apps.

We are excited to announce the launch of Syncfusion’s newest product – Essential® UI Kit for Angular! Explicitly designed for Angular developers, this comprehensive product introduces a new way to accelerate UI design and development.

It is packed with pre-built, reusable, customizable, and responsive blocks. It streamlines the creation of sleek, functional, and consistent user interfaces. By reducing the need to create a user interface from scratch manually, developers can focus on building features and enhancing functionality.

Whether you’re building your first Angular app or managing complex enterprise apps, the Essential® UI Kit for Angular helps you build your apps faster, smarter, and more efficiently.

Key features of Angular blocks

1. Comprehensive blocks library

The UI Kit includes over 120 pre-built blocks, such as authentication forms, headers, sidebars, footers, grids, list views, tile views, email templates, chat modules, and more. These versatile blocks cover a wide range of use cases, providing a solid foundation for building dynamic, feature-rich web apps.

2. Seamless integration with Tailwind CSS and Bootstrap 5.3

The UI Kit supports popular CSS frameworks like Tailwind CSS and Bootstrap 5.3, providing flexibility in styling and layout design. This ensures developers can quickly integrate and customize the blocks to fit their app’s needs without extensive rework, enhancing both design consistency and development speed

3. Easy Angular integration

Each block in the UI Kit is carefully designed to align with Angular’s architecture and best practices, ensuring smooth integration into both new and existing projects. With access to the public Gallery and GitHub repository, users have free access to the codebase, enabling easy integration and reducing the learning curve for developers.

4. Customizability

One of the standout features is the ability to fully customize the blocks, including elements like the company name and logo, content, dimensions, layouts, and other styles. This flexibility enables developers to align the blocks seamlessly with their app’s branding and design guidelines.

5. Responsive and cross-platform support

All blocks are optimized for responsiveness, ensuring a seamless user experience across desktops, tablets, and mobile devices. No matter the screen size, the UI Kit ensures your app looks and functions flawlessly on any platform.

Benefits of using Angular blocks

1. Accelerated development

Pre-built blocks eliminate the need to create user interfaces from scratch, drastically reducing development time. This enables teams to launch apps faster, accelerating time-to-market.

2. Enhanced productivity

By leveraging ready-to-use blocks, developers can dedicate more time to crafting app logic and delivering unique functionalities. This leads to increased efficiency and innovation within development teams.

3. Modularity and reusability

The modular structure of Angular Blocks ensures that blocks can be reused across multiple apps or different sections of the same app. This not only streamlines development but also improves maintainability.

4. Customization without complexity

Despite being pre-designed, the blocks are highly customizable, offering developers complete control over their app’s look and feel.

5. Scalability and maintainability

With consistent and reusable blocks, the UI Kit allows developers to scale apps easily and ensures that long-term maintenance is straightforward, even as apps grow in size and complexity.

Use cases for Angular blocks

1. Enterprise apps

Develop scalable enterprise solutions with blocks that ensure consistent UI design across different modules and workflows.

2. Business dashboards

Rapidly assemble dashboards with blocks, ensuring decision-makers have quick access to real-time, critical information.

3. E-commerce platforms

Use the UI Kit’s customizable blocks to design visually appealing product displays, shopping carts, and checkout processes.

4. Webpage design

Easily design and customize webpages, from landing pages to complex layouts, by leveraging pre-built blocks for a consistent and professional look across all pages.

Real-world example: Building a dashboard module

Imagine you’re tasked with creating a sales dashboard module. With the Essential® UI Kit for Angular, you can quickly assemble components like the header, sidebar, data grid, pager, and footer. Instead of building these elements from scratch, simply select and integrate pre-built blocks to save time. The result is a responsive, professional sales dashboard module that is ready to go.

Let’s walk you through the step-by-step process.

Step 1: Divide the layout into the header at the top, the footer at the bottom, the sidebar on the right, and the main data grid and pager in the center using basic HTML DOM elements.

Refer to the following image.

Creating and dividing the layout


Creating and dividing the layout

Step 2: Once the layout is in place, you can copy and paste the header, footer, sidebar, data grid, and pager code directly from the demo in our gallery or download the free source code from the GitHub repository. You’ll now see a basic outline.

The following image shows an example.

Adding the elements from gallery


Adding the elements from gallery

Note: For more details, refer to this documentation.

Step 3: The copied code is just a template. Now, make the following minor customizations to tailor it to your needs:

  • Change the company name, logo, edit button, and profile image in the header.
  • In the footer, update the company name.
  • Modify the user profile name, email address, and image in the sidebar. You can also update the navigation options to fit the dashboard’s requirements.
  • Reduce the number of columns in the grid for a more compact view. If needed, modify the data source or columns.
  • We are not going to change the pager.

With these simple and quick changes, your sales dashboard module is ready to go! Refer to the following image.

Creating a sales dashboard using Essential® UI kit for Angular


Creating a sales dashboard using Essential® UI kit for Angular

Conclusion

Thank you for reading this blog! Syncfusion’s Essential® UI Kit for Angular is a game-changer for Angular developers. By providing a library of pre-built, reusable, customizable, and responsive blocks, it simplifies UI development, reduces time to market, and enhances productivity. Whether you’re building small-scale or large enterprise apps, this UI kit provides a carefully curated set of blocks to help you create consistent, high-quality user interfaces efficiently.

If you’re an existing customer, you can download the latest version of Essential Studio® from the License and Downloads page. For those new to Syncfusion, try our 30-day free trial to explore all our features.

If you have questions, contact us through our support forum, support portal, or feedback portal. As always, we are happy to assist you!

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