jsgantt-improved-extended
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jsgantt-improved with leap year support and holiday management system
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jsgantt-improved-extended
An enhanced version of jsgantt-improved with additional features for better project management.
🆕 New Features
🗓️ Leap Year Support
- Automatic calculation of leap years
- February correctly shows 29 days in leap years
- Accurate date calculations for all years
🏖️ Holiday & Working Days Management
- Configure working days (e.g., Monday-Friday only)
- Add custom holidays and non-working periods
- Support for recurring holidays (yearly repetition)
- Italian holidays presets included
- Automatic task duration adjustment based on working days
Original Description
A fully featured gantt chart component built entirely in Javascript, CSS and AJAX. It is lightweight and there is no need of external libraries or additional images.

Start using with including the files jsgantt.js and jsgantt.css that are inside dist/ folder.
Installation
Install via npm:
npm install jsgantt-improved-extendedOr install the original version:
npm install jsgantt-improvedImport in your JS:
import {JSGantt} from 'jsgantt-improved-extended';🔥 New Features Usage
Holiday System Example
const gantt = new JSGantt.GanttChart('container', 'day');
// Enable holiday system
gantt.setUseHolidaySystem(true);
// Set Monday-Friday as working days
gantt.setWorkingDaysToWeekdays();
// Add Italian holidays for 2024
gantt.addItalianHolidays(2024);
// Add custom holiday
gantt.addHoliday({
name: 'Company Holiday',
startDate: new Date(2024, 7, 10), // August 10
endDate: new Date(2024, 7, 20), // August 20
recurring: false
});
// Tasks will automatically adjust for non-working days
gantt.AddTaskItem(new JSGantt.TaskItem({
pID: 1,
pName: 'Summer Project',
pStart: '2024-08-05',
pEnd: '2024-08-25',
pClass: 'gtaskblue'
}));
gantt.Draw();Leap Year Functions
import { isLeapYear, getDaysInMonth } from 'jsgantt-improved-extended';
console.log(isLeapYear(2024)); // true
console.log(getDaysInMonth(1, 2024)); // 29 (February in leap year)
console.log(getDaysInMonth(1, 2023)); // 28 (February in non-leap year)Original Documentation
See the FULL DOCUMENTATION for more details in all features.
For Angular use the component ng-gantt
For React use the component react-jsgantt
For Vue , see this example: https://stackblitz.com/edit/vue-jsgantt-3
For .NET , see this example: .NET Documentation
Example
You can view a Solo live example at:
- https://jsganttimproved.github.io/jsgantt-improved/docs/demo.html
Or use a live coding example at Codenpen:
- https://codepen.io/mariomol/pen/mQzBPV
Easy to Use
<link href="jsgantt.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
<script src="jsgantt.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<div style="position:relative" class="gantt" id="GanttChartDIV"></div>
<script>
var g = new JSGantt.GanttChart(document.getElementById('GanttChartDIV'), 'day');
g.setOptions({
vCaptionType: 'Complete', // Set to Show Caption : None,Caption,Resource,Duration,Complete,
vQuarterColWidth: 36,
vDateTaskDisplayFormat: 'day dd month yyyy', // Shown in tool tip box
vDayMajorDateDisplayFormat: 'mon yyyy - Week ww',// Set format to dates in the "Major" header of the "Day" view
vWeekMinorDateDisplayFormat: 'dd mon', // Set format to display dates in the "Minor" header of the "Week" view
vLang: 'en',
vShowTaskInfoLink: 1, // Show link in tool tip (0/1)
vShowEndWeekDate: 0, // Show/Hide the date for the last day of the week in header for daily
vAdditionalHeaders: { // Add data columns to your table
category: {
title: 'Category'
},
sector: {
title: 'Sector'
}
},
vUseSingleCell: 10000, // Set the threshold cell per table row (Helps performance for large data.
vFormatArr: ['Day', 'Week', 'Month', 'Quarter'], // Even with setUseSingleCell using Hour format on such a large chart can cause issues in some browsers,
});
// Load from a Json url
JSGantt.parseJSON('./fixes/data.json', g);
// Or Adding Manually
g.AddTaskItemObject({
pID: 1,
pName: "Define Chart <strong>API</strong>",
pStart: "2017-02-25",
pEnd: "2017-03-17",
pPlanStart: "2017-04-01",
pPlanEnd: "2017-04-15 12:00",
pClass: "ggroupblack",
pLink: "",
pMile: 0,
pRes: "Brian",
pComp: 0,
pGroup: 0,
pParent: 0,
pOpen: 1,
pDepend: "",
pCaption: "",
pCost: 1000,
pNotes: "Some Notes text",
category: "My Category",
sector: "Finance"
});
g.Draw();
</script>Features
- Tasks & Collapsible Task Groups
- Dependencies and Highlight when hover a task
- Edit data in gantt table with list of responsible
- Task Completion
- Table with Additional Columns
- Task Styling or as HTML tags
- Milestones
- Resources
- Costs
- Plan Start and End Dates
- Gantt with Planned vs Executed
- Dynamic Loading of Tasks
- Dynamic change of format: Hour, Day, Week, Month, Quarter
- Load Gantt from JSON and XML
- From external files (including experimental support for MS Project XML files)
- From JavaScript Strings
Internationalization
Support for languages below:
* Arabic (ar)
* Chinese (cn)
* Czech (cs)
* Dutch (Standard)
* English (en)
* French (fr)
* Finnish (fi)
* German (de)
* Hebrew (he)
* Hungarian (hu)
* Korean (ko)
* Indonesian (id)
* Italian (it)
* Japanese (ja)
* Portuguese (pt)
* Polish (pl)
* Russian (ru)
* Spanish (es)
* Swedish (sv)
* Turkish (tr)
* Ukraininan (ua)Documentation
See the Documentation wiki page or the included docs/index.html file for instructions on use.
Project based on https://code.google.com/p/jsgantt/.
Want to Collaborate?
Its easy to get it set:
- Clone this repo
- Install lib dependencies:
npm i - Install global dependencies:
npm i -g browserify nodemon onchange tsc - Compile final js to be used on demo:
npm run dist - Run the demo with a live example:
npm start. - You can check the demo gantt that we use for testing features at:
http://127.0.0.1:8080/docs/demo.html - Use
npm run watchor do your change insrcand restart this command refresh the changes.
For testing:
- Install global dependencies:
npm i -g webdriver-manager - Install selenium webdriver:
npm run webdriver, it will install something like node_modules/webdriver-manager/selenium/chromedriver_88.0.4324.96.zip
node node_modules/protractor/bin/webdriver-manager update apt install chromium
apt install chromium-bsu
- Use
npm run testwith e2e tests. - Or use
npm run watch:testto keep watching the tests
For new release:
- Increment the version number on package.json
- Run
npm run publishnpm
🙏 Credits & Extended Features
This package extends the original jsgantt-improved with:
- Leap Year Support: Automatic February day calculation
- Holiday System: Comprehensive working days and holiday management
- Better Date Calculations: More accurate task duration calculations
- Italian Localization: Pre-configured Italian holidays
Original Credits
Based on the excellent work by:
- Mario Mol [email protected]
- Eduardo Rodrigues
- Ricardo Cardoso
Extended by
- Brokins00 - Added leap year and holiday management features
Compatibility
Fully backward compatible with existing jsgantt-improved implementations. New features are opt-in.
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