Angular Kanban Board Component | ng-hub-ui-board

Angular Kanban board component with drag and drop, custom card templates, column workflows and CSS variables for business dashboards.

Last updated Aug 17, 2026

Overview

Why teams search for this library

This Angular board component helps you ship Kanban-style workflows with drag and drop, flexible templates and scalable interaction patterns for real business tooling.

Install

npm install ng-hub-ui-board

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Ideal for

  • task boards
  • pipeline tracking
  • CRM workflows
  • operations dashboards

About board

ng-hub-ui-board is designed for Angular products that need more than a static list: task tracking, CRM pipelines, support workflows or internal operations dashboards. It keeps card rendering flexible while preserving a consistent board interaction model.

Feature guides

Basic Usage

Fundamental board features

Examples:
Basic Board Example

Basic Board Example

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Initial meeting

Press Space or Enter to grab the card, use the arrow keys to move it, Space or Enter to drop it, Escape to cancel the move.

Interactions

User interaction capabilities

Examples:
Card Drag & Drop

Card Drag & Drop

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Press Space or Enter to grab the card, use the arrow keys to move it, Space or Enter to drop it, Escape to cancel the move.

Last Event: None

Column Reordering

Column Reordering

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Press Space or Enter to grab the card, use the arrow keys to move it, Space or Enter to drop it, Escape to cancel the move.

Last Reorder: None

Card Click Event

Card Click Event

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Press Space or Enter to grab the card, use the arrow keys to move it, Space or Enter to drop it, Escape to cancel the move.

Last Clicked: None

Board Events

Board Events

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Press Space or Enter to grab the card, use the arrow keys to move it, Space or Enter to drop it, Escape to cancel the move.

Event Log

No events yet. Interact with the board!

Advanced Features

Scrolling and advanced behavior

Examples:
Infinite Scroll

Infinite Scroll

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Scroll Item 1

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Scroll Item 2

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Scroll Item 3

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Scroll Item 4

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Scroll Item 16

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Scroll Item 19

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Scroll Item 20

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Press Space or Enter to grab the card, use the arrow keys to move it, Space or Enter to drop it, Escape to cancel the move.

Last Scroll End: None

Templates

Customizing appearance

Examples:
Custom Card Template

Custom Card Template

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Press Space or Enter to grab the card, use the arrow keys to move it, Space or Enter to drop it, Escape to cancel the move.
Custom Header Template

Custom Header Template

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Press Space or Enter to grab the card, use the arrow keys to move it, Space or Enter to drop it, Escape to cancel the move.
Custom Footer Template

Custom Footer Template

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Press Space or Enter to grab the card, use the arrow keys to move it, Space or Enter to drop it, Escape to cancel the move.
Custom Card Placeholder

Custom Card Placeholder

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Press Space or Enter to grab the card, use the arrow keys to move it, Space or Enter to drop it, Escape to cancel the move.
Last action: Drag a card to see the custom placeholder
Custom Column Placeholder

Custom Column Placeholder

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Press Space or Enter to grab the card, use the arrow keys to move it, Space or Enter to drop it, Escape to cancel the move.
Last action: Drag a column to see the custom placeholder
Custom Drag Preview

Custom Drag Preview

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Press Space or Enter to grab the card, use the arrow keys to move it, Space or Enter to drop it, Escape to cancel the move.
Last action: Drag a card or column to see the custom preview

Configuration

Board configuration options

Examples:
Disable Sorting

Disable Sorting

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Press Space or Enter to grab the card, use the arrow keys to move it, Space or Enter to drop it, Escape to cancel the move.
Custom Scroll Padding

Custom Scroll Padding

Scroll detection padding is handled internally (default 1px). To inspect it, you would typically look at source code, but implementation details like specific padding override are not exposed as inputs in the current version of HubBoardComponent. This example shows a board that *could* use it if the API exposed it, or demonstrates the standard behavior. (Note: The library source code defines `scrollDetectionPadding = 1` as private readonly, so it cannot be customized via input currently.)

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Press Space or Enter to grab the card, use the arrow keys to move it, Space or Enter to drop it, Escape to cancel the move.
Drag Behavior Modes

Drag Behavior Modes

Try dragging cards or columns with different behaviors to see how the original element appears during drag.
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Press Space or Enter to grab the card, use the arrow keys to move it, Space or Enter to drop it, Escape to cancel the move.
Current Behavior: collapse
  • Collapse: The element completely disappears and its space is removed from the layout
  • Best for: Clean interface where you only want to see the placeholder at the destination

Styling

Customizing appearance via CSS variables

Examples:
CSS Customization

CSS Customization

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Press Space or Enter to grab the card, use the arrow keys to move it, Space or Enter to drop it, Escape to cancel the move.

Key features

Recent changes

Version 22.4.1 - 8/8/26, 12:00 AM

fixed: Documentation links now point at the canonical localized URLs. The README linked to https://hubui.dev/<path> with no locale prefix and no trailing slash, and both forms are 301-redirected, so every reader arriving from npm or GitHub landed on a redirect instead of the canonical page.

Version 22.4.0 - 7/28/26, 12:00 AM

added: ARIA list semantics: the board host is role="list" named by the new boardLabel input, each column is a labelled role="group", each column body a role="list" and each card a role="listitem".

added: Keyboard card reorder: Space/Enter grabs a focused card, ArrowUp/ArrowDown move it within its column and ArrowLeft/ArrowRight to the adjacent column (honouring the same predicate/cardSortingDisabled rules as dragging), Space/Enter drops emitting the same onCardMoved payload as a pointer drop, and Escape cancels restoring the original position.

added: Visually hidden aria-live="polite" announcer for grab, move, drop, cancel and rejected targets (messages are English-only for now), plus a hidden usage hint linked from each focusable card.

added: New optional boardLabel input: accessible name of the board list container (default 'Board').

Version 22.3.0 - 7/7/26, 12:00 AM

changed: BREAKING (packaging): the theme SCSS now ships at ng-hub-ui-board/styles (was dist/board/src/lib/styles), so @use 'ng-hub-ui-board/styles' resolves — update any @use that reached into src/lib/styles.

changed: variant now accepts any colour: besides the built-in semantic accents, a registered custom accent or a literal colour (#hex, rgb(), oklch(), CSS named colour) is resolved through the shared resolveHubAccent helper from ng-hub-ui-utils.

changed: Internal: @HostBinding/@HostListener decorators replaced by the host metadata object (Angular style guide); no public API or behaviour change.

Version 22.2.1 - 7/2/26, 12:00 AM

fixed: Docs: css-variables-reference.md default values resynchronized with the actual code declarations, now guarded by the repo-level tokens-parity check.

Version 22.2.0 - 6/26/26, 12:00 AM

changed: Accent system migrated to the open-set local accent slot pattern: variant re-bases a single --hub-board-accent slot and the emphasis/subtle/on family is derived locally with color-mix, growing the built-in variants from 5 to the nine canonical accents and letting any custom ds accent recolour the drag/drop placeholder at runtime.

added: New tokens --hub-board-accent-on (grayscale contrast flip driven by the accent lightness) and --hub-board-accent-emphasis.

fixed: Accent color-mix derivation for --hub-board-accent-subtle migrated from srgb to oklch for perceptually uniform tints; the subtle tint is now derived at 12% (was 8%).

Frequently asked questions

How do I build a Kanban board with drag and drop in Angular?

Install ng-hub-ui-board and bind a Board object describing its columns and cards. Dragging cards between columns and reordering columns works without extra wiring; the drag events return the moved BoardCard along with its source and target BoardColumn, so you persist the change in your own store or API.

Can I customise how each Kanban card looks?

Yes. ng-hub-ui-board renders cards through templates you provide, so a card can contain any markup — avatars, tags, progress, actions. BoardColumnHeaderDirective and BoardColumnFooterDirective do the same for the top and bottom of each column, leaving the drag-and-drop behaviour untouched.

How do I know which column a card was moved to?

The board emits a BoardDragDropEvent on every drop. It carries the dragged item, the column it came from and the column it landed in, plus the new index. That is the payload you send to your backend; the board does not persist anything by itself.

Does the Angular Kanban board work on touch devices?

Yes. Dragging is built on the Angular CDK drag-and-drop primitives, which handle mouse, touch and pen input, so the board behaves the same on tablets and phones as on desktop.