Livewire Status Board

Livewire component to show records/data according to their current status on a Kanban board.

Preview

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require mantix/livewire-kanban-board

Requirements

This package uses laravel/laravel (https://laravel.com/) and livewire/livewire (https://livewire.laravel.com/) under the hood.

It also uses Bootstrap CSS (https://getbootstrap.com/) for base styling.

Please make sure you include both of this dependencies before using this component.

Usage

In order to use this component, you must create a new Livewire component that extends from LivewireKanbanBoard

You can use make:livewire to create a new component. For example.

php artisan make:livewire SalesOrdersKanbanBoard

In the SalesOrdersKanbanBoard class, instead of extending from the base Livewire Component class, extend from LivewireKanbanBoard. Also, remove the render method. You'll have a class similar to this snippet.

class SalesOrdersKanbanBoard extends LivewireKanbanBoard
{
    //
}

In this class, you must override the following methods to display data

public function statuses() : Collection 
{
    //
}

public function records() : Collection 
{
    //
}

As you may have noticed, both methods return a Collection. statuses() refers to all the different status values your data may have in different points of time. records() on the other hand, stand for the data you want to show that could be in any of those previously defined statuses() collection.

To show how these two methods work together, let's discuss an example of Sales Orders and their different status along the sales process: Registered, Awaiting Confirmation, Confirmed, Delivered. Each Sales Order might be in a different status at specific times. For this example, we might define the following collection for statuses()

public function statuses() : Collection
{
    return collect([
        [
            'id' => 'registered',
            'title' => 'Registered',
        ],
        [
            'id' => 'awaiting_confirmation',
            'title' => 'Awaiting Confirmation',
        ],
        [
            'id' => 'confirmed',
            'title' => 'Confirmed',
        ],
        [
            'id' => 'delivered',
            'title' => 'Delivered',
        ],
    ]);
}

For each status we define, we must return an array with at least 2 keys: id and title.

Now, for records() we may define a list of Sales Orders that come from an Eloquent model in our project

public function records() : Collection
{
    return SalesOrder::query()
        ->map(function (SalesOrder $salesOrder) {
            return [
                'id' => $salesOrder->id,
                'title' => $salesOrder->client,
                'status' => $salesOrder->status,
            ];
        });
}

As you might see in the above snippet, we must return a collection of array items where each item must have at least 3 keys: id, title and status. The last one is of most importance since it is going to be used to match to which status the record belongs to. For this matter, the component matches status and records with the following comparison

$status['id'] == $record['status'];

To render the component in a view, just use the Livewire tag or include syntax

<livewire:sales-orders-kanban-board />

Populate the Sales Order model and you should have something similar to the following screenshot

You can render any render and statuses of your project using this approach 👍

Sorting and Dragging

By default, sorting and dragging between statuses is disabled. To enable it, you must include the following props when using the view: sortable and sortable-between-statuses

<livewire:sales-orders-kanban-board 
    :sortable="true"
    :sortable-between-statuses="true"
/>

sortable enables sorting withing each status and sortable-between-statuses allow drag and drop from one status to the other. Adding these two properties, allow you to have drag and drop in place.

You must also install the following JS dependencies in your project to enable sorting and dragging.

npm install sortablejs

Once installed, make them available globally in the window object. This can be done in the bootstrap.js file that ships with your Laravel app.

window.Sortable = require('sortablejs').default;

Behavior and Interactions

When sorting and dragging is enabled, your component can be notified when any of these events occur. The callbacks triggered by these two events are onStatusSorted and onStatusChanged

On onStatusSorted you are notified about which record has changed position within it's status. You are also given a $orderedIds array which holds the ids of the records after being sorted. You must override the following method to get notified on this change.

public function onStatusSorted($recordId, $statusId, $orderedIds)
{
    //   
}

On onStatusChanged gets triggered when a record is moved to another status. In this scenario, you get notified about the record that was changed, the new status, the ordered ids from the previous status and the ordered ids of the new status the record in entering. To be notified about this event, you must override the following method:

public function onStatusChanged($recordId, $statusId, $fromOrderedIds, $toOrderedIds)
{
    //
}

onStatusSorted and onStatusChanged are never triggered simultaneously. You'll get notified of one or the other when an interaction occurs.

You can also get notified when a record in the status board is clicked via the onRecordClick event

public function onRecordClick($recordId)
{
    //
}

To enable onRecordClick you must specify this behavior when rendering the component through the record-click-enabled parameter

<livewire:sales-orders-kanban-board 
    :record-click-enabled="true"
/>

Styling

To modify the look and feel of the component, you can override the styles method and modify the base styles returned by this method to the view. styles() returns a keyed array with Tailwind CSS classes used to render each one of the components. These base keys and styles are:

return [
    'wrapper' => 'd-flex flex-nowrap overflow-x-auto rounded', // component wrapper
    'statusWrapper' => 'flex-shrink-0', // statuses wrapper
    'statusWidth' => 272, // statuses column width
    'status' => 'flex-column rounded bg-primary fw-bold mx-1 px-2', // status column wrapper 
    'statusHeader' => 'py-2 fs-5', // status header
    'statusFooter' => '', // status footer
    'statusRecords' => '', // status records wrapper 
    'record' => 'bg-white shadow rounded border fw-normal p-2 my-2', // record wrapper
    'recordContent' => '', // record content
];

An example of overriding the styles() method can be seen below

public function styles()
{
    $baseStyles = parent::styles();

    $baseStyles['wrapper'] = 'd-flex flex-nowrap overflow-x-auto rounded';

    $baseStyles['statusWrapper'] = 'flex-shrink-0';

    $baseStyles['statusWidth'] = 300;

    $baseStyles['status'] = 'flex-column rounded bg-primary fw-bold mx-1 px-2';

    $baseStyles['statusHeader'] = 'py-2 fs-5';

    $baseStyles['statusRecords'] = 'overflow-y-auto';

    $baseStyles['record'] = 'bg-white shadow rounded border fw-normal p-2 my-2';

    return $baseStyles;
}

With these new styles, your component should look like the screenshot below

Looks like Trello, right? 😅

Advanced Styling and Behavior

Base views of the component can be customized as needed by exporting them to your project. To do this, run the php artisan vendor:publish command and export the livewire-kanban-board-views tag. The command will publish the base views under /resources/views/vendor/livewire-kanban-board. You can modify these base components as needed keeping in mind to maintain the data attributes and ids along the way.

Another approach is copying the base view files into your own view files and pass them directly to your component

<livewire:sales-orders-kanban-board 
    kanban-board-view="path/to/your/kanban-board-view"
    status-view="path/to/your/status-view"
    status-header-view="path/to/your/status-header-view"
    status-footer-view="path/to/your/status-footer-view"
    record-view="path/to/your/record-view"
    record-content-view="path/to/your/record-content-view"
/>

Note: Using this approach also let's you add extra behavior to your component like click events on header, footers, such as filters or any other actions

Adding Extra Views

The component let's you add a view before and/or after the status board has been rendered. These two placeholders can be used to add extra functionality to your component like a search input or toolbar of actions. To use them, just pass along the views you want to use in the before-kanban-board-view and after-kanban-board-view props when displaying the component.

<livewire:sales-orders-kanban-board 
    before-kanban-board-view="path/to/your/before-kanban-board-view"
    after-kanban-board-view="path/to/your/after-kanban-board-view"  
/>

Note: These views are optional.

In the following example, a before-kanban-board-view has been specified to add a search text box and a button

Testing

composer test

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information what has changed recently.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email [email protected] instead of using the issue tracker.

Credits

• Pieter Naber
• Mantix BV
• Andrés Santibáñez
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.