Lista Sortable y Drag & Drop para Angular | ng-hub-ui-sortable

Utilidades sortable y drag-and-drop para Angular sobre arrays, FormArray, flujos con Signals y listas conectadas.

Última actualización 16 sept 2026

Visión General

Por qué los equipos buscan esta librería

Elige esta librería sortable para Angular cuando necesites ordenación drag and drop que funcione con arrays, formularios reactivos, Signals y builders complejos de interfaz.

Instalación

npm install ng-hub-ui-sortable

Ir a

Ideal para

  • ordenación de tareas
  • editores con FormArray
  • builders de layout
  • gestión de prioridades

Sobre sortable

ng-hub-ui-sortable ayuda a los equipos Angular a reordenar datos de forma natural en productos donde el orden importa: tareas, prioridades, builders de layout o bloques dinámicos de formularios. Resulta especialmente útil cuando necesitas drag and drop sin perder el control sobre las actualizaciones de estado.

Guías de uso

Uso principal

Escenarios básicos de uso para listas sortable.

Ejemplos:
Array simple

Reordena arrays simples.

Sortable - Simple Arrays

Make any array sortable with a single directive. Every layout below shares the same model, so each drag updates them all.

Button groups
Cards
Ankara
Ankara description
Moscow
Moscow description
Munich
Munich description
Paris
Paris description
Washington
Washington description
Navigation
Current model
[ "Ankara", "Moscow", "Munich", "Paris", "Washington" ]

Código

Signals

Vincula datos sortable a señales mutables de Angular.

Sortable - Signals

Bind a writable signal as the sortable model. Reordering updates the signal value instantly, keeping reactive state in sync.

  • Angularv18
  • Reactv19
  • Vuev3
  • Sveltev5

Current signal value:

[ "Angular", "React", "Vue", "Svelte" ]

Código

Integración con formularios

Usa sortable con formularios reactivos de Angular.

Ejemplos:
Integración con FormArray

Reordena controles FormArray con drag and drop.

Sortable - Reactive FormArray

Bind directly to a reactive FormArray. Edit the inputs and drag to reorder — the form value always reflects the current order.

Current FormArray value:

[ "Ankara", "Moscow", "Munich", "Paris", "Washington" ]

Código

Configuración avanzada

Personaliza el comportamiento y las interacciones de SortableJS.

Ejemplos:
Opciones personalizadas

Configura handles, filtros, animación y eventos.

Sortable - Options

Pass any SortableJS options through the directive: filter non-draggable items, hook into events and tune autoscroll.

Filtered (disabled) items
  • Element 1
  • Element 2
  • Element 3
  • Element 4
  • Element 5
[ "1", "2", "3", "4", "5" ]
Events
Updated 0 times
  • Element 1
  • Element 2
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  • Element 5
Autoscroll

Drag near the edges of the list to trigger autoscroll.

  • Element 1
  • Element 2
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Código

Múltiples listas

Conecta listas, clona elementos y controla reglas de transferencia.

Sortable - Multiple Lists

Connect lists with the group option to transfer items across containers. Build kanban boards, clone factories and constrained drop targets.

Transfer between lists
  • Element 1
  • Element 2
  • Element 3
  • Element 4
  • Element 5
[ "1", "2", "3", "4", "5" ]
  • Element 6
  • Element 7
  • Element 8
  • Element 9
  • Element 10
[ "6", "7", "8", "9", "10" ]
Clone items

List 1 is a clone factory; list 2 is its target.

  • Element 1
  • Element 2
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  • Element 4
  • Element 5
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Constrained groups
1. Cannot accept items
  • Element 1
  • Element 2
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2. Normal list
  • Element 6
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3. Clones children
  • Element 11
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4. Only #1 can drop here
  • Element 13

Código

Constructor de layout

Contenedores sortable anidados con tabs y widgets.

Sortable - Layout Builder

Build hierarchical, nested drag-and-drop layouts with grouped containers for generics, tabs and widgets.

Build advanced visual layout builders with nested drag and drop in Angular. This powerful example demonstrates nested sortable lists with drag handles and component slots, perfect for creating page builders and dashboard designers.

Create hierarchical structures with drag-and-drop functionality—ideal for layout builders, dashboard organizers, and visual editors. Supports multi-level nesting with full control over handles and constraints.

Demo: Generic, Tabs & Widgets

Generic A
Widget 1
Widget 2
Tabs Container
Generic B
Widget 3
Generic C
Generic D
Widget 4
Generic E
Move log

No events yet.

Código

Modo manual

Desactiva las actualizaciones automáticas con `autoUpdateArray=false` y aplica los cambios tú mismo con los helpers `moveItemInArray`, `transferArrayItem` y `copyArrayItem`.

Sortable - Manual Mode

Disable automatic array updates and apply each reorder yourself with the moveItemInArray and transferArrayItem helpers.

Single List - Manual Reordering

Drag and drop tasks to reorder them. Notice how we manually update the array using the moveItemInArray helper function.

Task List
  • Design UI mockups
  • Implement authentication
  • Write unit tests
  • Deploy to production
Current State:
[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "title": "Design UI mockups",
    "completed": false
  },
  {
    "id": 2,
    "title": "Implement authentication",
    "completed": false
  },
  {
    "id": 3,
    "title": "Write unit tests",
    "completed": false
  },
  {
    "id": 4,
    "title": "Deploy to production",
    "completed": false
  }
]

Multiple Lists - Kanban Board Style

Drag tasks between different status columns. The transferArrayItem helper makes it easy to move items between arrays while maintaining full control.

To Do 3
  • Review pull requests
    Priority: high
  • Update documentation
    Priority: medium
  • Refactor legacy code
    Priority: low
In Progress 2
  • Fix bug #123
    Priority: high
  • Add new feature
    Priority: medium
Done 1
  • Initial setup
    Priority: high

Operations Log

No operations yet. Start dragging items to see the log!

Code Example

Component Handler
import { moveItemInArray, transferArrayItem } from 'ng-hub-ui-sortable';

onTasksUpdate(event: SortableEvent): void {
  // Manually update the array with full control
  moveItemInArray(this.tasks, event.oldIndex, event.newIndex);
  
  // You can add validation, API calls, etc. here
  console.log('Task reordered!');
}

onListAdd(event: SortableEvent, targetList: any[], listName: string): void {
  const sourceList = this.getListByElement(event.from);
  
  // Transfer item between arrays
  transferArrayItem(sourceList, targetList, event.oldIndex, event.newIndex);
  
  // Perfect place for API calls to persist the change
  this.apiService.updateTaskStatus(item.id, listName);
}

Why Use Manual Control?

Validation

Validate changes before updating your data model. Prevent invalid operations or apply business rules.

API Integration

Make API calls to persist changes immediately. Handle success/error responses appropriately.

Undo/Redo

Implement undo/redo functionality by maintaining operation history before committing changes.

Immutability

Use immutable data patterns with OnPush change detection for optimal performance.

Código

Características clave

Cambios recientes

Version 22.2.1 - 9/16/26, 12:00 AM

changed: Repository, issue and README links follow the move to the hub-env organization. Issues for every Hub UI package are now gathered in hub-env/hub-ui, and the repository and bugs fields of the manifest point at the new addresses. No code, types or styles change.

fixed: The migration guide and both READMEs placed the point where ngx-sortablejs stops compiling at Angular 13. Angular kept converting View Engine libraries with ngcc up to v15, so the real limit is Angular 16, and the guide now opens with the two paths: the maintained @worktile/ngx-sortablejs fork, or this package.

Version 22.2.0 - 9/8/26, 12:00 AM

added: The list can be reordered from the keyboard. SortableJS binds mousedown and touchstart and nothing else, so until now hubSortable simply did not work for anyone who does not drag. Each item, or its handle when one is configured, is now a tab stop, and from there the interaction is the grab / move / drop model of the WAI-ARIA authoring practices: Enter or Space picks the item up, the arrows move it, Home and End send it to either end, Enter or Space drops it and Escape puts it back. Every step is announced through a polite live region. Reordering this way obeys the same rules a drag does: off while disabled is true or sort is false, honouring autoUpdateArray, and emitting the same update and sortEvent with both indexes filled in.

added: keyboardSorting turns that path off for an application that already ships its own, and keyboardMessages translates what is announced. The sentences are functions rather than templates with placeholders, so a language whose word order differs is not forced through an English shape.

added: SortableBindings and SortableBinding are exported. SortableBindings keeps several parallel arrays in step through one drag, and [hubSortable] has always accepted an instance in place of an array, but it was never listed in public-api.ts: nobody outside the package could construct one or type a field holding one. Both READMEs gained the connected-lists section that explains what to do with it.

changed: BREAKING. SortableData is a list type instead of any. It was written any | any[] | WritableSignal<any[]>, and a union containing any is any, so the published type accepted a number, a string or a plain object without a word from the compiler. It is now T[] | WritableSignal<T[]> | SortableFormArrayLike<T>, with T defaulting to unknown. Nothing changes at runtime; see BREAKING_CHANGES.md for what stops compiling and what to write instead.

Version 22.1.4 - 9/6/26, 12:00 AM

changed: The library no longer writes into the consuming application's console. Eight guard rails, the out-of-range check in moveItemInArray, the three in transferArrayItem, the three in copyArrayItem and the directive's container lookup, used to report invalid input with console.warn or console.error. A dependency has no standing to put noise in an application's console, least of all in a production build, and the message was addressed to whoever wrote the call rather than to whoever runs the app. Every guard keeps the behaviour it always had: the call is a no-op and the arrays are left untouched. A container selector that matches nothing likewise leaves the directive inert, now without a message, so audit those selectors (see MIGRATION.md, 5.6) instead of waiting for the console to point at them.

fixed: The directive's JSDoc examples teach the @for block rather than *ngFor. Those snippets ship in the published typings, so they are what a consumer's editor shows on hover over hubSortable, and they contradicted the README's Quick Start, leaving the reader to work out which surface of the same library to believe. Each @for sits on the line that opens the host element on purpose, because TypeScript reads a line-initial @for inside a JSDoc comment as a tag and splits the example in two.

Version 22.1.3 - 9/1/26, 12:00 AM

changed: The homepage in the manifest points at this library's own documentation page rather than at the site root, and eleven keywords were added covering the vocabulary someone actually searches with when they do not already know this package's name: dnd, drag-drop, reorder, reorderable, sortable-list, list, formarray, component, reusable, ui-library. Metadata only — no code, no types, no styles change, and nothing a consumer imports is affected.

Version 22.1.2 - 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 22.1.1 - 7/28/26, 12:00 AM

added: Documented the pointer-only accessibility limitation of SortableJS drag-and-drop and the recommended keyboard alternative (move up/down controls on the same array).

Version 22.1.0 - 6/29/26, 12:00 AM

added: `provideSortable()` standalone provider function to register global SortableJS options without `SortableModule`.

added: Public type exports for the directive payloads (`SortableData`, `SortableEventName`, `SortableMoveEventPayload`).

deprecated: `SortableModule` and `SortableModule.forRoot()` — import the standalone `SortableDirective` and use `provideSortable()` instead.

changed: Aligned package scaffolding and documentation with the rest of the ng-hub-ui ecosystem.

Version 22.0.0 - 6/17/26, 12:00 AM

changed: Rebranded the package and standardized its metadata and README to match the ng-hub-ui family. The version was cut in the repository but never published to npm: the registry goes straight from 21.3.0 to 22.1.0, which is where the rebranding reached consumers.

Version 21.3.0 - 3/31/26, 12:00 AM

added: Improved binding support for writable signals and FormArrays, plus comprehensive test coverage for the directive.

Version 21.2.0 - 2/10/26, 12:00 AM

added: The SortableJS types are re-exported from the library root — `Sortable`, `SortableEvent`, `Options`, `MoveEvent`, `GroupOptions`, `PullResult` and `PutResult` — so typing a handler no longer means importing from two packages.

changed: `sortablejs` moved from peer dependencies to dependencies, so it installs with this package instead of being one more thing to remember.

Version 21.1.1 - 2/10/26, 12:00 AM

fixed: `update` and `add` emit once per drop in manual mode. SortableJS calls its own handlers more than once when the DOM is rearranged inside them, and those extra emissions used to reach the consumer.

fixed: The DOM and the bound array no longer disagree in manual mode: the directive reverts SortableJS's move so Angular renders from the array it was actually given.

fixed: Native SortableJS CustomEvents are suppressed at the container, so a template listener no longer fires twice for a single drop.

Version 21.1.0 - 2/9/26, 12:00 AM

added: Manual control mode via the `autoUpdateArray` input (default `true`); set it to `false` and the directive stops mutating the bound array and only reports what happened, which is what validation, persistence, undo and immutable state all need.

added: Array helper functions `moveItemInArray`, `transferArrayItem` and `copyArrayItem`, so manual mode does not mean rewriting index arithmetic in every application.

added: An events guide and a manual-control example covering a single list and a Kanban board.

Version 21.0.1 - 12/12/25, 12:00 AM

added: A README inside the package. The npm page had been blank since the first release.

Version 21.0.0 - 12/12/25, 12:00 AM

added: Writable signal support in the sortable bindings, alongside arrays and FormArrays, with hardened detection so neither shape trips TypeScript.

Version 20.0.0 - 12/10/25, 12:00 AM

added: First version published as `ng-hub-ui-sortable`, with the groundwork for Angular 20 compatibility. Everything the registry serves under this name starts here.

Preguntas frecuentes

¿Cómo se hace ordenable una lista con arrastrar y soltar en Angular?

Instala ng-hub-ui-sortable y pon [hubSortable] en el elemento contenedor, enlazado al array que hay detrás de la lista. Arrastrar un elemento reordena ese array en su sitio, así que la plantilla sigue sin ningún manejador de eventos tuyo. El mismo input acepta también un WritableSignal o un FormArray, cada uno reordenado por su propia API.

¿Se pueden arrastrar elementos entre dos listas?

Sí. Dale a los dos contenedores el mismo nombre de grupo, con el input [group] o con el objeto de opciones completo de SortableJS, y los elementos pasan de un array al otro. Las salidas add y remove indican de qué lista salió el elemento y cuál lo recibió, ambas con oldIndex y newIndex.

¿Funciona la ordenación con el teclado?

Sí, y viene activada. Enter o Espacio agarra el elemento enfocado, las flechas lo mueven, Inicio y Fin lo llevan a los extremos, Escape cancela, y cada paso se anuncia en una región aria-live que la directiva gestiona. SortableJS por su cuenta solo escucha mousedown y touchstart, así que esto se añade encima; [keyboardSorting]="false" lo quita.

¿En qué se diferencia del drag and drop del Angular CDK?

Envuelve SortableJS en lugar del CDK, así que no hay pareja cdkDropList y cdkDrag: un atributo en el contenedor es toda la configuración y el array enlazado se actualiza por ti. Tampoco trae CSS, de modo que el aspecto durante el arrastre sale de los nombres de clase que pasas en ghostClass, chosenClass y dragClass. Si prefieres el estilo explícito del CDK, pon [autoUpdateArray]="false" y reordena tú con los ayudantes exportados moveItemInArray, transferArrayItem y copyArrayItem.