Angular dynamic table using ngFor

Question

I would like to know if it is possible to create a dynamic HTML table from JSON data. The amount of columns and headers should change according to the keys in the JSON. For example this JSON should create this table:

{
     color: "green", code: "#JSH810"
 }

 ,
 {
     color: "red", code: "#HF59LD"
 }

 ...

And this JSON should create this table:

{
    id: "1", type: "bus", make: "VW", color: "white"
}

,
{
    id: "2", type: "taxi", make: "BMW", color: "blue"
}

...

This has to be 100% dynamic though, because I want to display hundreds of different JSON objects, so nothing should be hard coded in the HTML page.

Answer 1

If you want to get the key of your object as the head of your table, you should create a custom pipe.

import { PipeTransform, Pipe } from '@angular/core';

@Pipe({name: 'keys'})
export class KeysPipe implements PipeTransform {
  transform(value, args:string[]) : any {
    let keys = [];
    for (let key in value) {
      keys.push(key);
    }
    return keys;
  }
}

Update: Or simply return keys using Object.keys(). (demo)

@Pipe({name: 'keys'})
export class KeysPipe implements PipeTransform {
  transform(value, args:string[]) : any {
    return Object.keys(value);
  }
}

Now into your html template:

<table>
  <thead>
    <tr>           
      <th *ngFor="let head of items[0] | keys">{{head}}</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr *ngFor="let item of items">           
      <td *ngFor="let list of item | keys">{{item[list]}}</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

Update: Here is the demo.