ngx-toastr vs angular-notifier
Angular Notification Libraries Comparison
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What's Angular Notification Libraries?

Angular notification libraries provide developers with tools to create alert messages, notifications, and toasts in Angular applications. They enhance user experience by delivering timely feedback and information to users in a visually appealing manner. These libraries simplify the process of displaying notifications, allowing for customization and integration with Angular's reactive programming model.

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Feature Comparison: ngx-toastr vs angular-notifier

Customization

  • ngx-toastr:

    Ngx-Toastr provides basic customization features, such as setting the position, duration, and animation of toast notifications. However, it is less flexible than Angular Notifier in terms of styling and behavior, focusing instead on simplicity and ease of use.

  • angular-notifier:

    Angular Notifier offers extensive customization options, allowing developers to define the appearance, animations, and behavior of notifications. You can customize styles using CSS, control the duration of notifications, and even create custom notification types, making it suitable for applications with specific design requirements.

Integration

  • ngx-toastr:

    Ngx-Toastr is straightforward to integrate into Angular applications, requiring minimal setup. It can be easily added to any component, but it may not leverage Angular's reactive features as effectively as Angular Notifier.

  • angular-notifier:

    Angular Notifier is designed to work seamlessly with Angular's reactive programming model, making it easy to integrate with services and observables. This allows for dynamic notifications based on application state changes, enhancing the interactivity of the user interface.

User Experience

  • ngx-toastr:

    Ngx-Toastr is designed for quick, unobtrusive notifications that appear and disappear without interrupting the user's workflow. It is ideal for applications that require brief alerts without extensive user interaction.

  • angular-notifier:

    Angular Notifier focuses on providing a rich user experience with customizable notifications that can include icons, buttons, and various types of alerts. This can enhance user engagement by providing more informative and interactive notifications.

Documentation and Community Support

  • ngx-toastr:

    Ngx-Toastr is well-documented with clear examples, making it easy for developers to implement. It has a larger user base and community support, which can be helpful for finding solutions to common issues.

  • angular-notifier:

    Angular Notifier has comprehensive documentation, including examples and guides for customization. It has a growing community, which can be beneficial for troubleshooting and finding best practices.

Performance

  • ngx-toastr:

    Ngx-Toastr is lightweight and designed for quick rendering of toast notifications, ensuring minimal impact on application performance. However, excessive use of notifications may lead to clutter if not managed properly.

  • angular-notifier:

    Angular Notifier is optimized for performance, allowing for efficient rendering of notifications without significant overhead. Its design ensures that notifications do not interfere with application performance, even when multiple notifications are displayed.

How to Choose: ngx-toastr vs angular-notifier
  • ngx-toastr:

    Choose Ngx-Toastr if you prefer a lightweight, easy-to-use solution for displaying toast notifications. It is well-suited for applications that need quick and straightforward notifications without extensive customization, providing a simple API for displaying success, error, and informational messages.

  • angular-notifier:

    Choose Angular Notifier if you need a highly customizable notification system that integrates seamlessly with Angular's reactive forms and services. It is ideal for applications that require detailed control over notification appearance and behavior, and it supports multiple notification types and configurations.

README for ngx-toastr
Angular Toastr

ngx-toastr


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DEMO: https://ngx-toastr.vercel.app

Features

  • Toast Component Injection without being passed ViewContainerRef
  • No use of *ngFor. Fewer dirty checks and higher performance.
  • AoT compilation and lazy loading compatible
  • Component inheritance for custom toasts
  • SystemJS/UMD rollup bundle
  • Animations using Angular's Web Animations API
  • Output toasts to an optional target directive

Dependencies

Latest version available for each version of Angular

| ngx-toastr | Angular | | ---------- | ----------- | | 13.2.1 | 10.x 11.x | | 14.3.0 | 12.x 13.x | | 15.2.2 | 14.x. | | 16.2.0 | 15.x | | 17.0.2 | 16.x | | current | >= 17.x |

Install

npm install ngx-toastr --save

@angular/animations package is a required dependency for the default toast

npm install @angular/animations --save

Don't want to use @angular/animations? See Setup Without Animations.

Setup

step 1: add css

  • copy toast css to your project.
  • If you are using sass you can import the css.
// regular style toast
@import 'ngx-toastr/toastr';

// bootstrap style toast
// or import a bootstrap 4 alert styled design (SASS ONLY)
// should be after your bootstrap imports, it uses bs4 variables, mixins, functions
@import 'ngx-toastr/toastr-bs4-alert';

// if you'd like to use it without importing all of bootstrap it requires
@import 'bootstrap/scss/functions';
@import 'bootstrap/scss/variables';
@import 'bootstrap/scss/mixins';
// bootstrap 4
@import 'ngx-toastr/toastr-bs4-alert';
// boostrap 5
@import 'ngx-toastr/toastr-bs5-alert';
  • If you are using angular-cli you can add it to your angular.json
"styles": [
  "styles.scss",
  "node_modules/ngx-toastr/toastr.css" // try adding '../' if you're using angular cli before 6
]

step 2: add ToastrModule to app NgModule, or provideToastr to providers, make sure you have BrowserAnimationsModule (or provideAnimations) as well.

  • Module based
import { CommonModule } from '@angular/common';
import { BrowserAnimationsModule } from '@angular/platform-browser/animations';

import { ToastrModule } from 'ngx-toastr';

@NgModule({
  imports: [
    CommonModule,
    BrowserAnimationsModule, // required animations module
    ToastrModule.forRoot(), // ToastrModule added
  ],
  bootstrap: [App],
  declarations: [App],
})
class MainModule {}
  • Standalone
import { AppComponent } from './src/app.component';
import { provideAnimations } from '@angular/platform-browser/animations';

import { provideToastr } from 'ngx-toastr';

bootstrapApplication(AppComponent, {
  providers: [
    provideAnimations(), // required animations providers
    provideToastr(), // Toastr providers
  ]
});

Use

import { ToastrService } from 'ngx-toastr';

@Component({...})
export class YourComponent {
  constructor(private toastr: ToastrService) {}

  showSuccess() {
    this.toastr.success('Hello world!', 'Toastr fun!');
  }
}

Options

There are individual options and global options.

Individual Options

Passed to ToastrService.success/error/warning/info/show()

| Option | Type | Default | Description
| ----------------- | ------------------------------ | ------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------- | | toastComponent | Component | Toast | Angular component that will be used | | closeButton | boolean | false | Show close button | | timeOut | number | 5000 | Time to live in milliseconds | | extendedTimeOut | number | 1000 | Time to close after a user hovers over toast | | disableTimeOut | boolean \| 'timeOut' \| 'extendedTimeOut' | false | Disable both timeOut and extendedTimeOut when set to true. Allows specifying which timeOut to disable, either: timeOut or extendedTimeOut | | easing | string | 'ease-in' | Toast component easing | | easeTime | string | number | 300 | Time spent easing | | enableHtml | boolean | false | Allow html in message | | newestOnTop | boolean | true | New toast placement | | progressBar | boolean | false | Show progress bar | | progressAnimation | 'decreasing' \| 'increasing' | 'decreasing' | Changes the animation of the progress bar. | | toastClass | string | 'ngx-toastr' | CSS class(es) for toast | | positionClass | string | 'toast-top-right' | CSS class(es) for toast container | | titleClass | string | 'toast-title' | CSS class(es) for inside toast on title | | messageClass | string | 'toast-message' | CSS class(es) for inside toast on message | | tapToDismiss | boolean | true | Close on click | | onActivateTick | boolean | false | Fires changeDetectorRef.detectChanges() when activated. Helps show toast from asynchronous events outside of Angular's change detection |

Setting Individual Options

success, error, info, warning take (message, title, ToastConfig) pass an options object to replace any default option.

this.toastrService.error('everything is broken', 'Major Error', {
  timeOut: 3000,
});

Global Options

All individual options can be overridden in the global options to affect all toasts. In addition, global options include the following options:

| Option | Type | Default | Description | | ----------------------- | ------- | ---------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | | maxOpened | number | 0 | Max toasts opened. Toasts will be queued. 0 is unlimited | | autoDismiss | boolean | false | Dismiss current toast when max is reached | | iconClasses | object | see below | Classes used on toastr service methods | | preventDuplicates | boolean | false | Block duplicate messages | | countDuplicates | boolean | false | Displays a duplicates counter (preventDuplicates must be true). Toast must have a title and duplicate message | | resetTimeoutOnDuplicate | boolean | false | Reset toast timeout on duplicate (preventDuplicates must be true) | | includeTitleDuplicates | boolean | false | Include the title of a toast when checking for duplicates (by default only message is compared) |

iconClasses defaults
iconClasses = {
  error: 'toast-error',
  info: 'toast-info',
  success: 'toast-success',
  warning: 'toast-warning',
};

Setting Global Options

Pass values to ToastrModule.forRoot() or provideToastr() to set global options.

  • Module based
// root app NgModule
imports: [
  ToastrModule.forRoot({
    timeOut: 10000,
    positionClass: 'toast-bottom-right',
    preventDuplicates: true,
  }),
],
  • Standalone
import { AppComponent } from './src/app.component';
import { provideAnimations } from '@angular/platform-browser/animations';

import { provideToastr } from 'ngx-toastr';

bootstrapApplication(AppComponent, {
  providers: [
    provideToastr({
      timeOut: 10000,
      positionClass: 'toast-bottom-right',
      preventDuplicates: true,
    }), 
  ]
});

Toastr Service methods return:

export interface ActiveToast {
  /** Your Toast ID. Use this to close it individually */
  toastId: number;
  /** the title of your toast. Stored to prevent duplicates if includeTitleDuplicates set */
  title: string;
  /** the message of your toast. Stored to prevent duplicates */
  message: string;
  /** a reference to the component see portal.ts */
  portal: ComponentRef<any>;
  /** a reference to your toast */
  toastRef: ToastRef<any>;
  /** triggered when toast is active */
  onShown: Observable<any>;
  /** triggered when toast is destroyed */
  onHidden: Observable<any>;
  /** triggered on toast click */
  onTap: Observable<any>;
  /** available for your use in custom toast */
  onAction: Observable<any>;
}

Put toasts in your own container

Put toasts in a specific div inside your application. This should probably be somewhere that doesn't get deleted. Add ToastContainerModule to the ngModule where you need the directive available. Make sure that your container has an aria-live="polite" attribute, so that any time a toast is injected into the container it is announced by screen readers.

import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { BrowserAnimationsModule } from '@angular/platform-browser/animations';

import { ToastrModule, ToastContainerModule } from 'ngx-toastr';

import { AppComponent } from './app.component';

@NgModule({
  declarations: [AppComponent],
  imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    BrowserAnimationsModule,

    ToastrModule.forRoot({ positionClass: 'inline' }),
    ToastContainerModule,
  ],
  providers: [],
  bootstrap: [AppComponent],
})
export class AppModule {}

Add a div with toastContainer directive on it.

import { Component, OnInit, ViewChild } from '@angular/core';

import { ToastContainerDirective, ToastrService } from 'ngx-toastr';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-root',
  template: `
    <h1><a (click)="onClick()">Click</a></h1>
    <div aria-live="polite" toastContainer></div>
  `,
})
export class AppComponent implements OnInit {
  @ViewChild(ToastContainerDirective, { static: true })
  toastContainer: ToastContainerDirective;

  constructor(private toastrService: ToastrService) {}
  ngOnInit() {
    this.toastrService.overlayContainer = this.toastContainer;
  }
  onClick() {
    this.toastrService.success('in div');
  }
}

Functions

Clear

Remove all or a single toast by optional id

toastrService.clear(toastId?: number);
Remove

Remove and destroy a single toast by id

toastrService.remove(toastId: number);

SystemJS

If you are using SystemJS, you should also adjust your configuration to point to the UMD bundle.

In your SystemJS config file, map needs to tell the System loader where to look for ngx-toastr:

map: {
  'ngx-toastr': 'node_modules/ngx-toastr/bundles/ngx-toastr.umd.min.js',
}

Setup Without Animations

If you do not want to include @angular/animations in your project you can override the default toast component in the global config to use ToastNoAnimation instead of the default one.

In your main module (ex: app.module.ts)

import { ToastrModule, ToastNoAnimation, ToastNoAnimationModule } from 'ngx-toastr';

@NgModule({
  imports: [
    // ...

    // BrowserAnimationsModule no longer required
    ToastNoAnimationModule.forRoot(),
  ],
  // ...
})
class AppModule {}

That's it! Animations are no longer required.

Using A Custom Toast

Create your toast component extending Toast see the demo's pink toast for an example https://github.com/scttcper/ngx-toastr/blob/master/src/app/pink.toast.ts

import { ToastrModule } from 'ngx-toastr';

@NgModule({
  imports: [
    ToastrModule.forRoot({
      toastComponent: YourToastComponent, // added custom toast!
    }),
  ],
  bootstrap: [App],
  declarations: [App, YourToastComponent], // add!
})
class AppModule {}

FAQ

  1. ExpressionChangedAfterItHasBeenCheckedError: Expression has changed after it was checked
    When opening a toast inside an angular lifecycle wrap it in setTimeout
ngOnInit() {
    setTimeout(() => this.toastr.success('sup'))
}
  1. Change default icons (check, warning sign, etc)
    Overwrite the css background-image: https://github.com/scttcper/ngx-toastr/blob/master/src/lib/toastr.css.
  2. How do I use this in an ErrorHandler?
    See: https://github.com/scttcper/ngx-toastr/issues/179.
  3. How can I translate messages?
    See: https://github.com/scttcper/ngx-toastr/issues/201.
  4. How to handle toastr click/tap action?
    showToaster() {
      this.toastr.success('Hello world!', 'Toastr fun!')
        .onTap
        .pipe(take(1))
        .subscribe(() => this.toasterClickedHandler());
    }
    
    toasterClickedHandler() {
      console.log('Toastr clicked');
    }
    
  5. How to customize styling without overridding defaults?
    Add multiple CSS classes separated by a space:
    toastClass: 'yourclass ngx-toastr'
    
    See: https://github.com/scttcper/ngx-toastr/issues/594.

Previous Works

toastr original toastr
angular-toastr AngularJS toastr
notyf notyf (css)

License

MIT


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