Sure, some of you can call us subjective for making such a statement, but let us present a few of the main reasons that helped Angular Material gather such an impressive fanbase…

It’s all about Material Design

Obviously, if we’re going to talk about Angular Material, Material Design should be the first thing to cover, as it plays a very important role in creating its personality.

Simply put, Material Design is an incredibly powerful specification, developed by Google, to facilitate a multi-device experience, no matter the form factor or the input method. And Angular Material did one amazing thing by implementing the same intuitive and easy layout system!

The perfect layout? Could be.

Based on CSS’ flexbox, Angular Material can make layout simple and solve some of the most common problems encountered by devs, through just a few lines of HTML.

But this is not everything!

For example, if you want a first child to take a portion of the page for the simple fact that it’s in navigation, while the second child should take up the rest, the only thing you need to do is to add a number value to the flex attribute. And you’re done, that’s the percentage of layout that the element will fill.

Proper responsiveness

If you think that Angular Material is great just for the previous two reasons, wait until you hear about the entire set of layout options available!

Let’s say that you have two child elements and you want them to live side by side unless you are on a mobile device and then you want them to stack. In this case, you can consider adding an attribute calling out the layout for the small form factor. Therefore, you make the switch from row to column layout by using layout-sm=”column” in the parent container.

The right components

We can all agree that Material Design is one of the core features, but let’s not forget about the load of Angular components you have at your disposal!

Oh, and the documentation comes with a lot of working code ‘pieces’ that you can use right away. And this is also a great way to decipher the mysteries of Angular Material.

A big accent on accessibility

And finally, let’s not forget about one of the most important considerations that should be integrated into a web app.

In Angular Material’s case, accessibility is front and center of the framework and the best exemplification of this is its ability to log errors in the console if, let’s say, default text can’t be found on a button and aria-label is not defined.

So, are we still subjective with our statement about Angular? No, we don’t think so.

At IB Systems, we have been working with al Angular versions from 2+ through the last 20 years and believe that it doesn’t have so many secrets for us. If you are looking forward to starting your own project based on this framework and believe that our experience can add a plus, get in touch and we can see if we are on the same track!

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There’s a quite impressive list of available components, not to mention that it keeps growing with each day!

When building apps using Angular Material, they will actually be a collection of components. Also, instead of building your own components from scratch, things are way easier, since you can leverage using Angular Material, which gives you the possibility to use – and this is our favourite part – ready-made styled components, with Material Design written all over on them.

As a side note, Material Design is what Google uses for Android, not to mention that it’s a favourite among developers, mostly because it looks very good.

In order to start developing using Angular Material, there are a few general steps, as it follows:

• Setting up the environment
• Creating your Angular Project
• Installing Angular Material
• Configuring the theme for it
• Create the Angular Material Gesture
• Add some Material Design icons

After these steps, you are technically ready to start creating the apps. Therefore, you move on to the next stage of the development process:

• Importing Material Components
• Add the navigation bar to the app
• Handle the Flex layout with Angular
• Add more features to the app
• Define routes for the users
• Focus on enhancing the amount of data within the app
• Secure your app
• Enable data deletion
• Enable data input

And you’re pretty much getting close to finishing your first app using, of course, Angular. At first, by simply looking at the steps you need to follow. Still, it’s far from being easy, as you need proper experience and development skills.

If you don’t have these – or just lack time – you can let professionals do it. IB Systems USA’s team is backed by more than 20 years of experience and front end development using Angular combined with Material Design has no secrets for them. And getting in touch regarding this can immediately confirm their expertise.

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