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Stimulus Checkbox Select All

A Stimulus controller for managing checkbox lists.

Video Tutorial

Chris Oliver from GoRails has released a presentation video on how to use this package with a real life example with Ruby on Rails.

👉 Take a look: Bulk Operations in Rails

Installation

$ yarn add stimulus-checkbox-select-all

And use it in your JS file:

// Probably in app/javascript/controllers/index.js

import { Application } from '@hotwired/stimulus'
import CheckboxSelectAll from 'stimulus-checkbox-select-all'

const application = Application.start()
application.register('checkbox-select-all', CheckboxSelectAll)

Usage

Without Rails

<table data-controller="checkbox-select-all">
  <tbody>
    <td class="block">
      <label>
        <input type="checkbox" data-checkbox-select-all-target="checkboxAll" />
        <span>Select All / Deselect All</span>
      </label>
    </td>

    <td class="block">
      <label>
        <input type="checkbox" data-checkbox-select-all-target="checkbox" value="1" />
        <span>Team 1</span>
      </label>
    </td>

    <td class="block">
      <label>
        <input type="checkbox" data-checkbox-select-all-target="checkbox" checked="checked" value="2" />
        <span>Team 2</span>
      </label>
    </td>

    <td class="block">
      <label>
        <input type="checkbox" data-checkbox-select-all-target="checkbox" value="3" />
        <span>Team 3</span>
      </label>
    </td>
  </tbody>
</table>

With Rails

In your models:

class User < ApplicationRecord
  has_many :teams
end

class Team < ApplicationRecord
  belongs_to :user
end

In your controller:

class UsersController < ApplicationController
  def update
    if user.update(user_params)
      redirect_to users_path
    else
      render :edit
    end
  end

  private

  def user_params
    params
      .require(:user)
       .permit(
         team_ids: []
       )
  end
end

In your view:

<%= form_with model: @user, data: { controller: 'checkbox-select-all' } do |f| %>
  <label>
    <input type="checkbox" data-checkbox-select-all-target="checkboxAll" />
    <span>Select All / Deselect All</span>
  </label>

  <%= f.collection_check_boxes :team_ids, Team.all, :id, :name do |b| %>
    <%= b.label do %>
      <%= b.check_box data: { checkbox_select_all_target: 'checkbox' } %>
      <%= b.text %>
    <% end %>
  <% end %>
<% end %>

🎛 Extending Controller

You can use inheritance to extend the functionality of any Stimulus component:

import CheckboxSelectAll from 'stimulus-checkbox-select-all'

export default class extends CheckboxSelectAll {
  connect() {
    super.connect()
    console.log('Do what you want here.')

    // Get all checked checkboxes
    this.checked

    // Get all unchecked checkboxes
    this.unchecked
  }
}

This controller will automatically have access to targets defined in the parent class.

If you override the connect, disconnect or any other methods from the parent, you'll want to call super.method() to make sure the parent functionality is executed.

☕️ Sponsors

Stimulus Component is an MIT licensed open source project and completely free to use. However, the amount of effort needed to maintain and develop new features for the project is not sustainable without proper financial backing. You can support Stimulus Components development on Github Sponsors. 🙏

👷 Contributing

Do not hesitate to contribute to the project by adapting or adding features ! Bug reports or pull requests are welcome.

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📝 License

This project is released under the MIT license.