Angular Template Directives: ngFor
Explore how to utilize the Angular ngFor directive to dynamically render lists in your Ionic applications. Understand the role of the asterisk syntax and the let keyword for block-scoped variables, enabling cleaner and more reliable iteration. Gain practical knowledge on embedding templates and displaying indexed data safely with Angular's interpolation.
One of the major hurdles when learning a new framework is getting to grips with the syntax that needs to be used.
Thankfully, with Angular, that isn’t as difficult as it might first appear!
When templating our application, Angular provides the following built-in directives that we can use for manipulating elements and rendering data:
- The
ngFordirective - The
ngSwitchdirective - The
ngIfdirective - The
ngStyledirective - The
ngClassdirective
ngFor
The ngFor directive is used to iterate through items in an array and render those to the page. This can be applied as an attribute on both Ionic UI components as well as standard HTML tags.
The ngFor directive is prefixed with an ...