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New App: Directory / Showcase (DNN + Angular 4)

This App can be used for directories or showcases, and you can use it as the foundation to build anything else. It uses Angular 4 best practices and is the ideal place to start learning Angular.

The Directory App

This is what it looks like: 

End User Features

  1. Responsive, tile view of logos/images
  2. Super-fast, everything is AJAX
  3. Mouseover shows more details
  4. link on each tile
  5. The user can search
  6. ...filter by category / industry
  7. and filter by starting letter
  8. ...only letters which have items shine green

Some Screenshots

 

Admin / Content-Editor Features

  • Uses standard 2sxc content-items to manage the content, incl. drag-drop image upload and more. 
  • in-Angular hover toolbars to edit, add, delete content
  • Multi-language content...
  • ...and multi-language resources (labels like "Search" / "Suche", etc.)
  • SEO-URLs for all filters
  • Versioned / draft content as you need it

Developer Features

  1. Built using Angular 4
  2. Ideal demo for dnn-sxc-angular, as it shows how to perfectly integrate an Angular SPA into DNN
  3. Uses reactive development paradigms - which you should really learn (see also the post which explains how dnn and angular connect)
  4. Styling uses Bootstrap 3 and SASS
  5. Full source code included...
  6. and MIT licensed - so you can enhance it any way you want to

Get it Now!

Download it from the app-catalog or browse the code on Github.

Love from Switzerland,
Daniel & Christoph


Daniel Mettler grew up in the jungles of Indonesia and is founder and CEO of 2sic internet solutions in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, an 20-head web specialist with over 800 DNN projects since 1999. He is also chief architect of 2sxc (see github), an open source module for creating attractive content and DNN Apps.

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