angular 20.0+ drag and drop

Demo

https://mattlewis92.github.io/angular-draggable-droppable/

Table of contents

• About
• Installation
• Documentation
• Development
• License

About

Observable powered drag and drop for angular 20.0+

Installation

Install through npm:

npm install angular-draggable-droppable

Then use it in your app like so:

import { Component, NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { DraggableDirective, DroppableDirective } from 'angular-draggable-droppable';

@Component({
  selector: 'demo-app',
  imports: [DraggableDirective, DroppableDirective],
  template: `
    <div mwlDraggable (dragEnd)="dragEnd($event)">Drag me!</div>
    <div mwlDroppable (drop)="this.droppedData = $event.dropData">
      <span [hidden]="droppedData">Drop here</span>
      <span [hidden]="!droppedData">Item dropped here with data: "{{ droppedData }}"!</span>
    </div>
  `,
})
class DemoApp {
  droppedData: string;

  dragEnd(event) {
    console.log('Element was dragged', event);
  }
}

Note: if draggable elements are inside a scrollable element then you will need to add mwlDraggableScrollContainer as an attribute to the scrollable container.

You may also find it useful to view the demo source.

Documentation

All documentation is auto-generated from the source and can be viewed here: https://mattlewis92.github.io/angular-draggable-droppable/docs/

Alternatives

I wrote this library because I needed drag and drop whilst snapping to a grid. If you don't need this feature then I recommend checking out one of these other awesome drag and drop libraries:

• Angular CDK drag and drop
• angular-skyhook
• ng-drag-drop

Development

Prepare your environment

• Install Node.js (>=24.5.0)
• Install pnpm: corepack enable
• Install local dev dependencies: pnpm install while current directory is this repo

Development server

Run pnpm start to start a development server on port 8000 with auto reload + tests.

Testing

Run pnpm test to run tests once or pnpm test:watch to continually run tests.

Release

pnpm release

License

MIT