Installing Angular Material
Angular Material has some great components ready to use in your project: https://material.angular.io/
Configuration
1) Install Angular Material
npm install --save @angular/material npm install --save @angular/cdk
Go to your index.html and add this inside <head>:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/icon?family=Material+Icons">Create a MaterialModule class:
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core'; import { MatButtonModule, MatMenuModule, MatToolbarModule, MatIconModule, MatCardModule } from '@angular/material'; @NgModule({ imports: [ MatButtonModule, MatMenuModule, MatToolbarModule, MatIconModule, MatCardModule ], exports: [ MatButtonModule, MatMenuModule, MatToolbarModule, MatIconModule, MatCardModule ] }) export class MaterialModule {}
Go to your modules file and import MaterialModule:
import { MaterialModule } from './material.module';
Add MaterialModule module to imports section of NgModule.
2) You may also need to import Angular Animations:
npm install --save @angular/animations
Go to your modules file and import BrowserAnimationsModule:
import { BrowserAnimationsModule } from '@angular/platform-browser/animations';
Add BrowserAnimationsModule module to imports section of NgModule.
3) And also gestures library:
npm install --save hammerjs
Go to your modules file and import BrowserAnimationsModule:
import 'hammerjs';
4) Also, you may install Angular Flex layout:
npm install --save @angular/flex-layout
Go to your modules file and import FlexLayoutModule:
import { FlexLayoutModule } from '@angular/flex-layout';
Add FlexLayoutModule module to imports section of NgModule.
View example
<mat-toolbar color="primary"> <span>Ristorante Con Fusion</span> </mat-toolbar>
In your main scss file
@import '~@angular/material/prebuilt-themes/indigo-pink.css';
