ng-breadcrumbs

AngularJS Breadcrumbs for ngRoute

This project was built using ng-boilerplate! This project was forked from the abandoned ng-breadcrumbs module by Ian Von Walter It was then maintained briefly by a number of contributors including shoshi It has been given a couple of new features.

Works with Angular 1.5.x!

Step 1: Install ng-breadcrumbs

Install using npm (preferred):

npm install --save angular-breadcrumbs
require('angular-breadcrumbs') // For webpack

Install using Bower:

bower install angular-breadcrumbs --save

Include ng-breadcrumbs.min.js in your app.

Step 2: Set up routing

In order to use breadcrumbs you'll need to use configure your app to use Angular's routeProvider. You'll also need to load the ng-breadcrumbs module. You can then set a label for each route (breadcrumb) within the route options.

  var app = angular.module('ab', ['ngRoute', 'ng-breadcrumbs'])
    .config(['$routeProvider', function($routeProvider) {
      $routeProvider
        .when('/', { templateUrl: 'assets/template/home.html', label: 'Home' })
        .when('/stock/:stock', { controller: 'StockController', templateUrl: 'assets/template/stock.html' })
        .when('/stock/:stock/detail', {
          controller: 'StockDetailController',
          templateUrl: 'assets/template/stock-detail.html',
          label: 'More Detail'
        })
        .otherwise({ redirectTo: '/' });

Step 3: Make the breadcrumbs service available to your controller

Set the breadcrumbs service in your app's main controller.

  app.controller('HomeController', [
    '$scope',
    'breadcrumbs',
    function($scope, breadcrumbs) {
      $scope.breadcrumbs = breadcrumbs;
      ...

Step 4: Display the breadcrumbs within your app

This HTML snippet will display your breadcrumb navigation and leave the last breadcrumb (the page you're currently on) unlinked.

  <ol class="ab-nav breadcrumb">
    <li ng-repeat="breadcrumb in breadcrumbs.get() track by breadcrumb.path" ng-class="{ active: $last }">
      <a ng-if="!$last" ng-href="#{{ breadcrumb.path }}" ng-bind="breadcrumb.label" class="margin-right-xs"></a>
      <span ng-if="$last" ng-bind="breadcrumb.label"></span>
    </li>
  </ol>

That's it! You should now have breadcrumb navigation that can even handle nested routes.

Adding dynamic route labels

To add dynamic route labels, create an options object on the breadcrumbs service or pass one as a parameter within breadcrumbs.get(), for example:

// Will replace the default label 'Stock Detail' with the dynamic label 'AAPL Details'
breadcrumbs.options = { 'Stock Detail': $routeParams.stock + ' Details' };

Adding arbitrary options to a route

To add extra configuration to your route, simply define 'options' in your route definition, i.e:

// Will be available as breadcrumbs.get()[index].options.hidden
.when('/', { templateUrl: 'assets/template/home.html', label: 'Home', options: {hidden: false})