Maintenance and Support for Angular versions

[tomavic]

The question is How far can you support Angular versions?

However, After checking discord and Figma I can see there are lots of work pending. This Answer to this will narrow the amount of work needed.

In addition to the work pending such as adding components, accessibility and so on, there are developer-experience-related enhancements and refactors needed.

From my side I will try to list them here, Please feel free to add yours too.

[tomavic]

The first issue: No Secondary Entry Point for Components/Directives

As stated from ng-packager

Besides the primary entry point, a package can contain one or more secondary entry points (e.g. @angular/core/testing, @angular/cdk/a11y, …). These contain symbols that we don't want to group together with the symbols in the main entry point. The module id of a secondary entry directs the module loader to a sub-directory by the secondary's name.

For library developers, secondary entry points are configured by adding a ng-package.json file in subdirectories of the main package.json file's folder!

Before

After

and the library consumer will use it like this

import { SanitizeHtmlPipe } from 'flowbite-angular/pipes'

and maybe we can make it better be adding each components independently inside the src folder without need to group them (components, services, driectives) and so on.

import { Button } from 'flowbite-angular/button'

[MGREMY]

@tomavic Hey

We know we have plenty of work on this side. Secondary entry points are a good way to provide developers a good experience.
I think the "best way" in that case to handle it is by providing an entry point on each component/directive like that

import { ButtonComponent } from 'flowbite-angular/components/button'

In that way we will have an entry point for directive, another for component, and an entry point for each component/directive inside (as angular-material)

For now I think it's better to move this issue inside a discussion and close this issue, I'll let you create one.
Thanks for your (first) advice tho, and I'm open to some other if you have some :)

[tomavic]

Hi @MGREMY
I am ready whenever you free and able to start on this change.

Thanks ;)

[MGREMY]

Hey @tomavic
Are you on the flowbite's discord, I might need some help to implement a clean ng-packagr setup
So if you are on discord, send me a message ! :)

[MGREMY]

(also I'm moving this into a discussion at this link)