Topic: Confusion with Angular Material
I just have a question about your MDB Pro for Angular product as compared to "Angular Material" - that can be installed using npm using the angular cli, for example:
npm install --save @angular/material @angular/cdk @angular/animations
I'm pretty sure that "Angular Material" is something completely different from your MDB Pro for Angular product. I just want to make sure, considering that (if so) the use of the word "Material" makes things pretty darn confusing...
Yes, MDB Angular and Angular Material are two different products.
Using other libraries together with our product is not impossible, but we do not recommend it because of possible conflicts in css styles.
Both Angular Material and MDB Angular use material design rules as a guidelines for styling and offer ready to use component for creating user interfaces.
Despite of using the same design style, these components still vary in terms of appearance (and sometimes functionality as well).
You can read more about material design here: https://material.io/design/
And here is our documentation in which you can find examples of our components (use sidenav menu on the left to navigate):
https://mdbootstrap.com/docs/angular/
But they're two completely different things, right? Let's put it this way. Let's say I want to invest a ton of time/effort (like a whole year's worth) learning ONE UI controls toolkit to augment my angular development. Given that, I should choose one or the other of these things, right? Either install @angular/material via the angular cli and work with that (and not use your MDB Angular Pro stuff), OR NOT install @angular/material via the angular cli, and instead install/learn/use your MDB Angular Pro stuff. Correct?
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- User: Free
- Premium support: No
- Technology: MDB Angular
- MDB Version: 7.5.1
- Device: PC
- Browser: Chrome
- OS: Windows 10 Pro
- Provided sample code: No
- Provided link: No