Angular Router Menus

Simplify your Angular applications navigation by defining menu entries directly at the route itself. It is fully typed and defined by your requirements, build as many navigation's as you like. It also supports nesting menus so you can build yourself cool dropdowns. Menus are exposed as Angular signals for reactive consumption in your templates and components.

pnpm add angular-router-menus

Version Compatibility

Library Version	Angular Version
21.x	^21.0.0
20.x	^20.0.0
3.x	^19.0.0

• Installation
• Configuration
  • MenuOptions
  • MenuItem
• Types
• Usage
• Examples
• FAQ
  • How can I show a different icon when it is an external href?

Installation

1. Install the package
2. Create a type definition file or add to yours
   1. declare type Menus = "main" | "aside"
   2. Adjust these menus by your needs
3. In your main.ts file import and configure the library
4. You must need a preloading strategy because I use internal api's which require some providers
   • NoPreloading is the default in Angular
5. Add a menu property to each Angular route where you want it to appear in the default menu
6. Use the menu.in property to define in which menu the route should appear
7. Configure even more!

void bootstrapApplication(AppComponent, {
	providers: [
		provideRouter(routes, withPreloading(NoPreloading)),
		provideRouterMenus(routes, ["main"], {
			defaultMenu: "main", // 👋🏻
			debug: !environment.production,
		}),
	],
}).catch((error) => {
	console.error(error)
})

export const routes = [
	{
		path: "home",
		title: "Home",
		loadComponent: /* ... */,
		menu: {
			in: "main",
		},
	}
] satisfies Routes

Configuration

For details on menu items configuration, please take a look at the interfaces and its documentation here: projects/angular-router-menus/src/lib/menu.ts

Property	Description
defaultMenu	If not defined via in this is the default menu.
debug	Enables debugging, because of internal API use I omit all errors.
menuOptions	Object of menu name and an object. Please see MenuOptions.

MenuOptions

Define options for a specific menu.

Property	Description
sortOrder	Sort menu by "asc" or "desc".

MenuItem

Property	Description
in	In which menu this item appears.
priority	At which priority this item should appear in the menu.
label	Optional label. Default: route.title.
href	Change default route url to something else. For example to redirect to an external site. This also works on component pages.
icon.name	A menu item icon.
icon.position	Its position. Define it by yourself.

Types

All types by angular-router-menus are by default very wide (e.g. string), to use your own custom types, you can override the declarations by defining your types in e.g. a arm-types.d.ts file.

Here is an example which also uses Angular-FontAwesome (see ./projects/app/src/icons.ts for more) icon names for the menu item icon property so it will autocomplete in your IDE/Editor.

declare type Menus = "main" | "aside"
declare type MenuItemIcon = import("@fortawesome/fontawesome-common-types").IconName
declare type MenuItemIconPosition = "left" | "right"

Usage

@Component({
	selector: "app-root",
	templateUrl: "./app.component.html",
	styleUrl: "./app.component.scss",
	changeDetection: ChangeDetectionStrategy.OnPush,
	imports: [RouterOutlet, RouterLink, RouterLinkActive],
})
export class AppComponent {
	readonly menu = inject(RouterMenusService).use("main") // 👋🏻
}

<ul>
	@for (item of menu(); track item.href) {
	<li>
		<a [routerLink]="item.href" routerLinkActive="active">{{ item.label }}</a>
		@if (item.icon) {
		<fa-icon [icon]="item.icon.name" />
		}
	</li>
	} @empty {
	<span>Loading...</span>
	}
</ul>

Examples

For a full example project go to projects/app/ and run it ;), it uses:

• Angular FontAwesome
• Tailwind
• Most of the lib's options
• Zoneless

FAQ

How can I show a different icon when it is an external href?

You can use a if-clause and pipe to check for the href to start with "http" or use some lib to check against it. In later Angular version you can also directly call "...".startsWith("http").