How to import Angular Material in project?

Angular Problem Overview

I have installed Angular Material Design. Now I try to add this in app.module.ts file:

import { MaterialModule } from '@angular/material';

What I should decify in section: imports: []? that to load all material entities.

I tried: imports: ['MaterialModule'] but it is deprecated

Angular Solutions

Solution 1 - Angular

UPDATE for Angular 9.0.1

Since this version there is no barrel file for massive exports in the root index.d.ts. The assets imports should be:

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { MatCardModule } from '@angular/material/card';
import { MatButtonModule} from '@angular/material/button';
import { MatMenuModule } from '@angular/material/menu';
import { MatToolbarModule } from '@angular/material/toolbar';
import { MatIconModule } from '@angular/material/icon';

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 {}

source: @angular/material/index.d.ts' is not a module

MaterialModule was depreciated in version 2.0.0-beta.3 and it has been removed completely in version 2.0.0-beta.11. See this CHANGELOG for more details. Please go through the breaking changes.

Breaking changes

Angular Material now requires Angular 4.4.3 or greater
MaterialModule has been removed.
For beta.11, we've made the decision to deprecate the "md" prefix completely and use "mat" moving forward.

Please go through CHANGELOG we will get more answer!

Example shown below cmd

npm install --save @angular/material @angular/animations @angular/cdk
npm install --save angular/material2-builds angular/cdk-builds

Create file (material.module.ts) inside the 'app' folder

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 {}

import on app.module.ts

import { MaterialModule } from './material.module';

Your component html file

<div>
  <mat-toolbar color="primary">
    <span><mat-icon>mood</mat-icon></span>

    <span>Yay, Material in Angular 2!</span>

    <button mat-icon-button [mat-menu-trigger-for]="menu">
      <mat-icon>more_vert</mat-icon>
    </button>
  </mat-toolbar>
  <mat-menu x-position="before" #menu="matMenu">
    <button mat-menu-item>Option 1</button>
    <button mat-menu-item>Option 2</button>
  </mat-menu>

  <mat-card>
    <button mat-button>All</button>
    <button mat-raised-button>Of</button>
    <button mat-raised-button color="primary">The</button>
    <button mat-raised-button color="accent">Buttons</button>
  </mat-card>

  <span class="done">
    <button mat-fab>
      <mat-icon>check circle</mat-icon>
    </button>
  </span>
</div>

Add global css 'style.css'

@import 'https://fonts.googleapis.com/icon?family=Material+Icons';
@import '~@angular/material/prebuilt-themes/indigo-pink.css';

Your component css

body {
  margin: 0;
  font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;
}

mat-card {
  max-width: 80%;
  margin: 2em auto;
  text-align: center;
}

mat-toolbar-row {
  justify-content: space-between;
}

.done {
  position: fixed;
  bottom: 20px;
  right: 20px;
  color: white;
}

If any one didn't get output use below instruction

instead of above interface (material.module.ts) u can directly use below code also in the app.module.ts.

import { FormsModule, ReactiveFormsModule } from '@angular/forms';
import { BrowserAnimationsModule } from '@angular/platform-browser/animations';
import { MdButtonModule, MdCardModule, MdMenuModule, MdToolbarModule, MdIconModule, MatAutocompleteModule, MatInputModule,MatFormFieldModule } from '@angular/material';

So this case u don't want to import

import { MaterialModule } from './material.module';

in the app.module.ts

Solution 2 - Angular

Import all Angular Material modules in Angular 9.

Create material.module.ts file in your_project/src/app/ directory and paste this code.

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { CommonModule } from '@angular/common';


import { BrowserAnimationsModule } from '@angular/platform-browser/animations';
import { MatCheckboxModule } from '@angular/material/checkbox';
import { MatButtonModule } from '@angular/material/button';
import { MatInputModule } from '@angular/material/input';
import { MatAutocompleteModule } from '@angular/material/autocomplete';
import { MatDatepickerModule } from '@angular/material/datepicker';
import { MatFormFieldModule } from '@angular/material/form-field';
import { MatRadioModule } from '@angular/material/radio';
import { MatSelectModule } from '@angular/material/select';
import { MatSliderModule } from '@angular/material/slider';
import { MatSlideToggleModule } from '@angular/material/slide-toggle';
import { MatMenuModule } from '@angular/material/menu';
import { MatSidenavModule } from '@angular/material/sidenav';
import { MatBadgeModule } from '@angular/material/badge';
import { MatToolbarModule } from '@angular/material/toolbar';
import { MatListModule } from '@angular/material/list';
import { MatGridListModule } from '@angular/material/grid-list';
import { MatCardModule } from '@angular/material/card';
import { MatStepperModule } from '@angular/material/stepper';
import { MatTabsModule } from '@angular/material/tabs';
import { MatExpansionModule } from '@angular/material/expansion';
import { MatButtonToggleModule } from '@angular/material/button-toggle';
import { MatChipsModule } from '@angular/material/chips';
import { MatIconModule } from '@angular/material/icon';
import { MatProgressSpinnerModule } from '@angular/material/progress-spinner';
import { MatProgressBarModule } from '@angular/material/progress-bar';
import { MatDialogModule } from '@angular/material/dialog';
import { MatTooltipModule } from '@angular/material/tooltip';
import { MatSnackBarModule } from '@angular/material/snack-bar';
import { MatTableModule } from '@angular/material/table';
import { MatSortModule } from '@angular/material/sort';
import { MatPaginatorModule } from '@angular/material/paginator';


@NgModule( {
    imports: [
        CommonModule,
        BrowserAnimationsModule,
        MatCheckboxModule,
        MatCheckboxModule,
        MatButtonModule,
        MatInputModule,
        MatAutocompleteModule,
        MatDatepickerModule,
        MatFormFieldModule,
        MatRadioModule,
        MatSelectModule,
        MatSliderModule,
        MatSlideToggleModule,
        MatMenuModule,
        MatSidenavModule,
        MatBadgeModule,
        MatToolbarModule,
        MatListModule,
        MatGridListModule,
        MatCardModule,
        MatStepperModule,
        MatTabsModule,
        MatExpansionModule,
        MatButtonToggleModule,
        MatChipsModule,
        MatIconModule,
        MatProgressSpinnerModule,
        MatProgressBarModule,
        MatDialogModule,
        MatTooltipModule,
        MatSnackBarModule,
        MatTableModule,
        MatSortModule,
        MatPaginatorModule

    ],
    exports: [
        MatButtonModule,
        MatToolbarModule,
        MatIconModule,
        MatSidenavModule,
        MatBadgeModule,
        MatListModule,
        MatGridListModule,
        MatInputModule,
        MatFormFieldModule,
        MatSelectModule,
        MatRadioModule,
        MatDatepickerModule,
        MatChipsModule,
        MatTooltipModule,
        MatTableModule,
        MatPaginatorModule
    ],
    providers: [
        MatDatepickerModule,
    ]
} )

export class AngularMaterialModule { }

Solution 3 - Angular

If you want to import all Material modules, create your own module i.e. material.module.ts and do something like the following:

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import * as MATERIAL_MODULES from '@angular/material';

export function mapMaterialModules() {
  return Object.keys(MATERIAL_MODULES).filter((k) => {
    let asset = MATERIAL_MODULES[k];
    return typeof asset == 'function'
      && asset.name.startsWith('Mat')
      && asset.name.includes('Module');
  }).map((k) => MATERIAL_MODULES[k]);
}
const modules = mapMaterialModules();

@NgModule({
    imports: modules,
    exports: modules
})
export class MaterialModule { }

Then import the module into your app.module.ts

Solution 4 - Angular

The MaterialModule was deprecated in the beta3 version with the goal that developers should only import into their applications what they are going to use and thus improve the bundle size.

The developers have now 2 options:

Create a custom MyMaterialModule which imports/exports the components that your application requires and can be imported by other (feature) modules in your application.
Import directly the individual material modules that a module requires into it.

Take the following as example (extracted from material page)

First approach:

import {MdButtonModule, MdCheckboxModule} from '@angular/material';

@NgModule({
  imports: [MdButtonModule, MdCheckboxModule],
  exports: [MdButtonModule, MdCheckboxModule],
})
export class MyOwnCustomMaterialModule { }

Then you can import this module into any of yours.

Second approach:

import {MdButtonModule, MdCheckboxModule} from '@angular/material';

@NgModule({
  ...
  imports: [MdButtonModule, MdCheckboxModule],
  ...
})
export class PizzaPartyAppModule { }

Now you can use the respective material components in all the components declared in PizzaPartyAppModule

It is worth mentioning the following:

With the latest version of material, you need to import BrowserAnimationsModule into your main module if you want the animations to work
With the latest version developers now need to add @angular/cdk to their package.json (material dependency)
Import the material modules always after BrowserModule, as stated by the docs:

> Whichever approach you use, be sure to import the Angular Material > modules after Angular's BrowserModule, as the import order matters for > NgModules.

Solution 5 - Angular

Starting from Angular version 9:

> Breaking changes: > > Components can no longer be imported through "@angular/material". Use > the individual secondary entry-points, such as > @angular/material/button.

This means that:

import { MatInputModule, MatCardModule } from "@angular/material";

becomes:

import { MatInputModule } from "@angular/material/input";
import { MatCardModule } from "@angular/material/card";

Solution 6 - Angular

> Step 1

yarn add @angular/material @angular/cdk @angular/animations

> Step 2 - Create a new file( /myApp/src/app/material.module.ts ) that includes all the material UI modules (there is no shortcut, you have to include individual modules one by one)

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 {}

> Step 3 - Import and add that newly created module to your > app.module.ts

import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import { MaterialModule } from './material.module'; // material module imported

@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    AppComponent
  ],
  imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    MaterialModule // MAteria module added
  ],
  providers: [],
  bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }

Solution 7 - Angular

Install & Add Material to Angular Projects

There is an automatic/easy way of adding Material to Angular Projects. Use the Angular CLI's install schematic to set up your Angular Material project by running the following command:

ng add @angular/material

The ng add command will additionally perform the following configurations:

Add project dependencies to package.json
Add the Roboto font to your index.html
Add the Material Design icon font to your index.html
Add a few global CSS styles to:
- Remove margins from body
- Set height: 100% on html and body
- Set Roboto as the default application font

You're done! Angular Material is now configured to be used in your application.

Solution 8 - Angular

I am using Angular CLI 9.1.4 and all i did was just run:

ng add @angular/material

And all the angular material packages were installed and my package.json file was updated.

This is the easiest way to get that done.

Solution 9 - Angular

You should consider using a SharedModule for the essential material components of your app, and then import every single module you need to use into your feature modules. I wrote an article on medium explaining how to import Angular material, check it out:

https://medium.com/@benmohamehdi/how-to-import-angular-material-angular-best-practices-80d3023118de

Solution 10 - Angular

above all answer, works but the issue is that it's not affected to project so u need to restart ur serve its work

Ctl+c

ng serve

Solution 11 - Angular

Click here to see Error message screenshot

If you people are getting this error "compiler.js:2430 Uncaught Error: Unexpected directive 'MatIcon' imported by the module 'AppModule'. Please add a @NgModule annotation"

Please do not import MatIcon from @angular/material.

Just Import below: import { MatIconModule } from '@angular/material';

How to import Angular Material?

You can run below command. ng add @angular/material

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