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TLDR

Official Angular UI component library with Material Design buttons, forms, dialogs, tables, and more, plus a lower-level toolkit for building custom components.

Mindmap

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    What it does
      Material Design components
      Accessible UI patterns
      Drag-and-drop toolkit
      Google Maps and YouTube
    Tech stack
      TypeScript
      Angular framework
      Material Design
    Use cases
      Internal dashboards
      Enterprise applications
      Custom component building
    Key features
      Keyboard navigation
      Screen reader support
      Cross-browser compatible
      Pre-styled components

Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Build internal dashboards and admin tools with pre-styled, accessible form inputs and data tables.

USE CASE 2

Create enterprise web applications with Material Design components that work across all major browsers.

USE CASE 3

Develop custom UI components using the Component Dev Kit's drag-and-drop and overlay utilities.

USE CASE 4

Embed Google Maps or YouTube videos as native Angular components in your application.

Tech stack

TypeScriptAngularMaterial DesignRxJS

Getting it running

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min
Use freely for any purpose, including commercial use, as long as you follow the terms of the MIT license.

In plain English

This repository is the official Angular Components library, maintained by the Angular team at Google. Angular is a TypeScript-based framework for building web applications, and this library gives Angular developers a ready-made set of UI building blocks so they don't have to build common interface elements from scratch. The library ships several packages. The most prominent is @angular/material, which provides pre-built interface components, think buttons, forms, dialogs, menus, tables, and date pickers, all styled according to Material Design, Google's visual design system. There's also @angular/cdk (Component Dev Kit), a lower-level toolkit for building your own custom components with built-in support for drag-and-drop, overlays, accessibility, and other interaction patterns. Additional packages wrap Google Maps and YouTube embeds as Angular-native components. A newer @angular/aria package offers accessible, headless UI patterns (meaning behavior without visual styling, so you can apply your own look). You'd use this when building an Angular web application and you want polished, accessible, tested interface components without designing them yourself. The components handle keyboard navigation, screen reader support, and browser compatibility across Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. It's particularly useful for internal tools, dashboards, and enterprise apps where consistency and accessibility matter more than a fully custom visual identity. Written in TypeScript.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Show me how to add a Material Design button and form input to an Angular component using @angular/material.
Prompt 2
How do I implement drag-and-drop functionality in my Angular app using the Component Dev Kit?
Prompt 3
What accessibility features does @angular/material provide for keyboard navigation and screen readers?
Prompt 4
How do I create a custom accessible dialog component using @angular/cdk and @angular/aria?
Prompt 5
Show me how to embed a Google Map as an Angular component using this library.
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