Getting Started - Angular

Supported Angular Versions

The PhotoEditorSDK will work in any Angular version with Typescript 3.x or higher. Angular version 6 and below use Typescript 2.x which is incompatible with the typings for the PhotoEditorSDK and will cause Typescript related compiler errors.

The only option to run v5 of the PhotoEditorSDK in the older versions of Angular would be to disable the library type checks in the compilerOptions of the tsconfig.json.

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "skipLibCheck": true
  }
}

Let’s get started!

We will be using angular cli for simplicity.

Create a project

• Start a new project by following the angular cli prompts

ng new my-app
cd my-app
ng serve

• Then open http://localhost:4200/ to see your app.

Installing peer dependencies

PhotoEditor SDK needs following peer dependencies:

1. React >= 16.3
2. React DOM >= 16.3
3. Styled Components >= 4.4

• Run npm install --save react@16.3 react-dom@16.3 styled-components@4.4 to include them in the project.
• Run npm install --save-dev @types/react@16.3 @types/react-dom@16.3 to include the types in the project.
• Add "allowSyntheticDefaultImports": true to the compilerOptions in tsconfig.json in order to compile React.

Installing PhotoEditor SDK

• Run npm install --save photoeditorsdk@5.3.1.

You will be left with following structure in your node_modules/photoeditorsdk/

├── assets
│   ├── adjustment
│   ├── colorpicker
│   ├── controls
│   ├── filter
│   ├── focus
│   ├── font
│   ├── frame
│   ├── overlay
│   ├── sticker
│   ├── textdesign
│   └── transform
├── esm
└── cjs

The package contains three folders that you need to integrate to your project.

1. assets: It contains all assets required for the PhotoEditor, this includes for example assets for frames, stickers and the ui.
2. cjs: It contains PhotoEditor SDK UI bundled as commonjs modules, will be loaded for older browser versions.
3. esm: It contains PhotoEditor SDK UI bundled as ECMAScript modules, will be loaded for supported modern browser versions.

• Copy the contents from node_modules/photoeditorsdk/assets to src/assets/photoeditorsdk.

Creating an Editor component

Use the angular cli to generate the scaffold for your editor component.

ng generate component photo-editor

photo-editor.component.html

<div #psdkContainer style="width: 100vw; height: 100vh;"></div>

photo-editor.component.ts

import { Component, AfterViewInit, ViewChild, Input } from "@angular/core";
import { PhotoEditorSDKUI } from "photoeditorsdk/no-polyfills";

const license = "";

@Component({
  selector: "app-photo-editor",
  templateUrl: "./photo-editor.component.html",
})
export class PhotoEditorComponent implements AfterViewInit {
  @Input()
  public src: string;

  @ViewChild("psdkContainer")
  private container: ElementRef;

  public editor: EditorApi;

  ngAfterViewInit() {
    this.initEditor();
  }

  async initEditor() {
    try {
      if (this.editor) {
        this.editor.dispose();
      }

      this.editor = await PhotoEditorSDKUI.init({
        license,
        container: this.container.nativeElement,
        image: this.src,
        assetBaseUrl: "/assets/photoeditorsdk",
      });
    } catch (error) {
      console.log(error);
    }
  }
}

Add the component to the app

app.component.html

<app-photo-editor
  src="https://static.photoeditorsdk.com/libraries/unsplash/raw/PZAxzN5DPkc.jpg"
></app-photo-editor>

Add the necessary polyfills

These polyfills have to be importet before import 'zone.js/dist/zone';.

polyfills.ts

// Polyfills Promise, fetch, Object.assign, Symbol, Set, Map
import "react-app-polyfill/ie11";
// Loads core-js/stable, regenerator-runtime
import "react-app-polyfill/stable";
import "core-js/features/array/find";
import "core-js/features/array/map";

Add the following snippet to the polyfills.ts if you encounter this error message process is not defined:

(window as any).process = {
  env: { DEBUG: undefined },
};

Ready to go!

There you have it. PhotoEditor SDK for the Web is ready to use. Refer to the configuration documentaion for more configuration options.