gridstack.js

Mobile-friendly modern Typescript library for dashboard layout and creation. Making a drag-and-drop, multi-column responsive dashboard has never been easier. Has multiple bindings and works great with Angular (included), React, Vue, Knockout.js, Ember and others (see frameworks section).

Inspired by no-longer maintained gridster, built with love.

Check http://gridstackjs.com and these demos.

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Demo and API Documentation
Usage
Migrating
jQuery Application
Changes
Usage Trend
The Team

Demo and API Documentation

Please visit http://gridstackjs.com and these demos, and complete API documentation (markdown)

Usage

Install

yarn add gridstack
// or
npm install --save gridstack

Include

ES6 or Typescript

import 'gridstack/dist/gridstack.min.css';
import { GridStack } from 'gridstack';

Alternatively (single combined file, notice the -all.js) in html

<link href="node_modules/gridstack/dist/gridstack.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<script src="node_modules/gridstack/dist/gridstack-all.js"></script>

Note: IE support was dropped in v2, but restored in v4.4 by an external contributor (I have no interest in testing+supporting obsolete browser so this likely will break again in the future) and DROPPED again in v12 (css variable needed). You can use the es5 files and polyfill (larger) for older browser instead. For example:

<link href="node_modules/gridstack/dist/gridstack.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<script src="node_modules/gridstack/dist/es5/gridstack-poly.js"></script>
<script src="node_modules/gridstack/dist/es5/gridstack-all.js"></script>

Basic usage

creating items dynamically...

// ...in your HTML
<div class="grid-stack"></div>

// ...in your script
var grid = GridStack.init();
grid.addWidget({w: 2, content: 'item 1'});

... or creating from list

// using serialize data instead of .addWidget()
const serializedData = [
  {x: 0, y: 0, w: 2, h: 2},
  {x: 2, y: 3, w: 3, content: 'item 2'},
  {x: 1, y: 3}
];

grid.load(serializedData);

... or DOM created items

// ...in your HTML
<div class="grid-stack">
  <div class="grid-stack-item">
    <div class="grid-stack-item-content">Item 1</div>
  </div>
  <div class="grid-stack-item" gs-w="2">
    <div class="grid-stack-item-content">Item 2 wider</div>
  </div>
</div>

// ...in your script
GridStack.init();

...or see list of all API and options available.

see stackblitz sample as running example too.

Requirements

GridStack no longer requires external dependencies as of v1 (lodash was removed in v0.5 and jquery API in v1). v3 is a complete HTML5 re-write removing need for jquery. v6 is native mouse and touch event for mobile support, and no longer have jquery-ui version. All you need to include now is gridstack-all.js and gridstack.min.css (layouts are done using CSS column based %).

Specific frameworks

search for 'gridstack' under NPM for latest, more to come...

Angular: we ship out of the box an Angular wrapper - see <a href="https://github.com/gridstack/gridstack.js/tree/master/angular" target="_blank">Angular Component</a>.
Angular9: lb-gridstack Note: very old v0.3 gridstack instance so recommend for concept ONLY if you wish to use directive instead. Code has not been vented at as I use components.
AngularJS: gridstack-angular
Ember: ember-gridstack
knockout: see demo using component, but check custom bindings ticket which is likely better approach.
Rails: gridstack-js-rails
React: work in progress to have wrapper code: see <a href="https://github.com/gridstack/gridstack.js/tree/master/react" target="_blank">React Component</a>. But also see demo with src, or react-gridstack-example, or read on what hooks to use
Vue: see demo with v3 src or v2 src
Aurelia: aurelia-gridstack, see demo

Extend Library

You can easily extend or patch gridstack with code like this:

// extend gridstack with our own custom method
GridStack.prototype.printCount = function() {
  console.log('grid has ' + this.engine.nodes.length + ' items');
};

let grid = GridStack.init();

// you can now call
grid.printCount();

Extend Engine

You can now (5.1+) easily create your own layout engine to further customize your usage. Here is a typescript example

import { GridStack, GridStackEngine, GridStackNode, GridStackMoveOpts } from 'gridstack';

class CustomEngine extends GridStackEngine {

  /** refined this to move the node to the given new location */
  public override moveNode(node: GridStackNode, o: GridStackMoveOpts): boolean {
    // keep the same original X and Width and let base do it all...
    o.x = node.x;
    o.w = node.w;
    return super.moveNode(node, o);
  }
}

GridStack.registerEngine(CustomEngine); // globally set our custom class

Change grid columns

GridStack makes it very easy if you need [1-12] columns out of the box (default is 12), but you always need 2 things if you need to customize this:

Change the column grid option when creating a grid to your number N

GridStack.init( {column: N} );

NOTE: step 2 is OLD and not needed with v12+ which uses CSS variables instead of classes

also include gridstack-extra.css if N < 12 (else custom CSS - see next). Without these, things will not render/work correctly.

<link href="node_modules/gridstack/dist/gridstack.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<link href="node_modules/gridstack/dist/gridstack-extra.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>

<div class="grid-stack">...</div>

Note: class .grid-stack-N will automatically be added and we include gridstack-extra.min.css which defines CSS for grids with custom [2-11] columns. Anything more and you'll need to generate the SASS/CSS yourself (see next).

See example: 2 grids demo with 6 columns

Custom columns CSS (OLD, not needed with v12+)

NOTE: step is OLD and not needed with v12+ which uses CSS va

Gridstack.js

Install / Use

README