@angular/flex-layout

[buu700]

Haven't heard back on angular/flex-layout#285 yet, so figured I may as well start a complementary issue thread here. It'd be great if there could be some sort of collaboration to get flex-layout running on NativeScript.

[NickIliev]

Hey @buu700 we have already implemented a FlexBoxLayout for NativeScript Angular. That said it is not our priority to implement features that already has related modules created in NativeScript but of course NativeScript is open source and each community member may become a contributor and provide a solution if applicable.

[buu700]

Thanks Nick. I know that FlexBoxLayout exists, but my thinking here is that making the exact same API in NativeScript (rather than just a similar one) would go a long way toward making it easy to port existing web templates to native.

[NickIliev]

@buu700 with the initial state of @angular/flex-layout it would again require a NativeScript wrapper so we could handle the DOM related aspects. Which is like recreating the FlexboxLayout again.

Even if the @angular/flex-layout become DOM-free as discussed here it will be one step closer but then again any layout needs to be translated to the native mobile layout so it would again require wrapper. Of course resolving the DOM issue is a step closer

[buu700]

Got it, thanks for the explanation! In that case, it sounds like something like this would be better implemented from scratch as a flex-layout-compatible wrapper on top of FlexBoxLayout?

Ultimately it's not critical, but the responsive features of flex-layout and increased ease of porting web templates would be nice to have.