Angular 2.0 and Modal Dialog

Here's a pretty decent example of how you can use the Bootstrap modal within an Angular2 app on GitHub.

The gist of it is that you can wrap the bootstrap html and jquery initialization in a component. I've created a reusable modal component that allows you to trigger an open using a template variable.

<button type="button" class="btn btn-default" (click)="modal.open()">Open me!</button>

<modal #modal>
    <modal-header [show-close]="true">
        <h4 class="modal-title">I'm a modal!</h4>
    </modal-header>
    <modal-body>
        Hello World!
    </modal-body>
    <modal-footer [show-default-buttons]="true"></modal-footer>
</modal>

You just need to install the npm package and register the modal module in your app module:

import { Ng2Bs3ModalModule } from 'ng2-bs3-modal/ng2-bs3-modal';

@NgModule({
    imports: [Ng2Bs3ModalModule]
})
export class MyAppModule {}

This is a simple approach that does not depend on jquery or any other library except Angular 2. The component below (errorMessage.ts) can be used as a child view of any other component. It is simply a bootstrap modal that is always open or shown. It's visibility is governed by the ngIf statement.

errorMessage.ts

import { Component } from '@angular/core';
@Component({
    selector: 'app-error-message',
    templateUrl: './app/common/errorMessage.html',
})
export class ErrorMessage
{
    private ErrorMsg: string;
    public ErrorMessageIsVisible: boolean;

    showErrorMessage(msg: string)
    {
        this.ErrorMsg = msg;
        this.ErrorMessageIsVisible = true;
    }

    hideErrorMsg()
    {
        this.ErrorMessageIsVisible = false;
    }
}

errorMessage.html

<div *ngIf="ErrorMessageIsVisible" class="modal fade show in danger" id="myModal" role="dialog">
    <div class="modal-dialog">

        <div class="modal-content">
            <div class="modal-header">
                <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal">&times;</button>
                <h4 class="modal-title">Error</h4>
            </div>
            <div class="modal-body">
                <p>{{ErrorMsg}}</p>
            </div>
            <div class="modal-footer">
                <button type="button" class="btn btn-default" (click)="hideErrorMsg()">Close</button>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

This is an example parent control (some non-relevant code has been omitted for brevity):

parent.ts

import { Component, ViewChild } from '@angular/core';
import { NgForm } from '@angular/common';
import {Router, RouteSegment, OnActivate, ROUTER_DIRECTIVES } from '@angular/router';
import { OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { Observable } from 'rxjs/Observable';


@Component({
    selector: 'app-application-detail',
    templateUrl: './app/permissions/applicationDetail.html',
    directives: [ROUTER_DIRECTIVES, ErrorMessage]  // Note ErrorMessage is a directive
})
export class ApplicationDetail implements OnActivate
{
    @ViewChild(ErrorMessage) errorMsg: ErrorMessage;  // ErrorMessage is a ViewChild



    // yada yada


    onSubmit()
    {
        let result = this.permissionsService.SaveApplication(this.Application).subscribe(x =>
        {
            x.Error = true;
            x.Message = "This is a dummy error message";

            if (x.Error) {
                this.errorMsg.showErrorMessage(x.Message);
            }
            else {
                this.router.navigate(['/applicationsIndex']);
            }
        });
    }

}

parent.html

<app-error-message></app-error-message>
// your html...

  • Angular 2 and up
  • Bootstrap css (animation is preserved)
  • NO JQuery
  • NO bootstrap.js
  • Supports custom modal content (just like accepted answer)
  • Recently added support for multiple modals on top of each other.

`

@Component({
  selector: 'app-component',
  template: `
  <button type="button" (click)="modal.show()">test</button>
  <app-modal #modal>
    <div class="app-modal-header">
      header
    </div>
    <div class="app-modal-body">
      Whatever content you like, form fields, anything
    </div>
    <div class="app-modal-footer">
      <button type="button" class="btn btn-default" (click)="modal.hide()">Close</button>
      <button type="button" class="btn btn-primary">Save changes</button>
    </div>
  </app-modal>
  `
})
export class AppComponent {
}

@Component({
  selector: 'app-modal',
  template: `
  <div (click)="onContainerClicked($event)" class="modal fade" tabindex="-1" [ngClass]="{'in': visibleAnimate}"
       [ngStyle]="{'display': visible ? 'block' : 'none', 'opacity': visibleAnimate ? 1 : 0}">
    <div class="modal-dialog">
      <div class="modal-content">
        <div class="modal-header">
          <ng-content select=".app-modal-header"></ng-content>
        </div>
        <div class="modal-body">
          <ng-content select=".app-modal-body"></ng-content>
        </div>
        <div class="modal-footer">
          <ng-content select=".app-modal-footer"></ng-content>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
  `
})
export class ModalComponent {

  public visible = false;
  public visibleAnimate = false;

  public show(): void {
    this.visible = true;
    setTimeout(() => this.visibleAnimate = true, 100);
  }

  public hide(): void {
    this.visibleAnimate = false;
    setTimeout(() => this.visible = false, 300);
  }

  public onContainerClicked(event: MouseEvent): void {
    if ((<HTMLElement>event.target).classList.contains('modal')) {
      this.hide();
    }
  }
}

To show the backdrop, you'll need something like this CSS:

.modal {
  background: rgba(0,0,0,0.6);
}

The example now allows for multiple modals at the same time. (see the onContainerClicked() method).

For Bootstrap 4 css users, you need to make 1 minor change (because a css class name was updated from Bootstrap 3). This line: [ngClass]="{'in': visibleAnimate}" should be changed to: [ngClass]="{'show': visibleAnimate}"

To demonstrate, here is a plunkr