Create a Resizable and Draggable Angular Component in the Easiest Way

Resizable & Draggable Component

A resizable and draggable HTML div element can add more possibilities into your website by allowing you to make more flexible components, such as a draggable back-to-top button, a resizable calendar, a movable video window and etc.

In this post, we will go through the process of making a resizable and draggable component step by step with less than 100 lines of code. The structure of this article is shown below:

1. Create a resizable component
2. Make the component draggable
3. Add boundary restrictions into moving & resizing actions

View details in my github repo: angular-resizable-draggable.

1. Create a resizable component

1.1 Component Initialization

As part of the initial settings, I have initialized an Angular project with a 600x450px container for the component we are going to make.

After that, we need to initialize a resizable-draggable component and pass some initial @Input values into the component, and bind them with the component’s style.