JavaScript Data GridBuilding AG Grid with Rollup.js
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We walk through the main steps required when using AG Grid with Rollup.js. We use AG Grid modules to only include the code that we require with the aim of keeping bundle size to a minimum.

A full working example of using Rollup.js with AG Grid can be found on Github.

Initialise Project

mkdir ag-grid-rollup
cd ag-grid-rollup
npm init --yes

Install Dependencies

npm i --save @ag-grid-community/client-side-row-model

// or, if using Enterprise features
npm i --save @ag-grid-enterprise/range-selection

npm i --save-dev rollup @rollup/plugin-node-resolve rollup-plugin-postcss

Create Application

Our application will be a very simple one, consisting of a single file that will render a simple grid:

// main-ag-grid.js
import { Grid, ModuleRegistry } from '@ag-grid-community/core';
import { ClientSideRowModelModule } from "@ag-grid-community/client-side-row-model";
// import { RangeSelectionModule } from "@ag-grid-enterprise/range-selection";
import '@ag-grid-community/styles/ag-grid.css';
import '@ag-grid-community/styles/ag-theme-balham.css';

ModuleRegistry.registerModules([ClientSideRowModelModule])

// If using enterprise feature register that module too.
// ModuleRegistry.registerModules([ClientSideRowModelModule, RangeSelectionModule])

// specify the columns
var columnDefs = [
    { field: "make" },
    { field: "model" },
    { field: "price" }
];

// specify the data
var rowData = [
    { make: "Toyota", model: "Celica", price: 35000 },
    { make: "Ford", model: "Mondeo", price: 32000 },
    { make: "Porsche", model: "Boxster", price: 72000 }
];

// let the grid know which columns and what data to use
var gridOptions = {
    columnDefs: columnDefs,
    rowData: rowData
};

// lookup the container we want the Grid to use
var eGridDiv = document.querySelector('#myGrid');

// create the grid passing in the div to use together with the columns & data we want to use
var api = createGrid(eGridDiv, gridOptions);
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<div id="myGrid" style="height: 200px;width:500px;" class="ag-theme-quartz"></div>

<script src="./dist/ag-bundle.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Rollup Configuration

Our rollup.ag-grid.json is very simple in this example:

import { nodeResolve } from '@rollup/plugin-node-resolve';
import postcss from 'rollup-plugin-postcss'

export default {
    input: './main-ag-grid.js',
    output: {
        file: './dist/ag-bundle.js',
        format: 'umd',
    },
    plugins: [
        nodeResolve(),
        postcss({
            extract: true,
            extensions: [".css"]
        })
    ],
    onwarn: (msg, warn) => {
        if (msg.code === 'THIS_IS_UNDEFINED') return;
        if (!/Circular/.test(msg)) {
            warn(msg)
        }
    }
};

Building our bundle

We can now build our bundle:

rollup -c rollup.ag-grid.config.js

The resulting bundle will be available in ./dist/ag-bundle.js

If we now serve index-ag-grid.html our grid will be rendered as expected.