material-components-web

Modular and customizable Material Design UI components for the web

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Modular and customizable Material Design UI components for the web

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2016	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	5	0	5
2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	4	1	3
2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	3	1	2
2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	0	2
2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
2021	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2022	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2023	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
2024	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2025	2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2026 (partial)	2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1

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tauntz·Jun 25, 2017

> Powered by Material Design Lite That's a curious choice. MDL isn't being developed further and is being replaced by "Material Components for the web" https://github.com/material-components/material-components-w... From https://github.com/google/material-design-lite: Limited support Material Design Lite is now in limited support, with development having moved to the Material Components for the web repository. No further development is taking place in MDL by the core team, but we are happy to review PRs, fix critical bugs and push out new releases. No breaking changes will be accepted.

In Google Web Starter Kit

guifortaine·Apr 5, 2017Submission

Material Components for the web

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d2kx·Mar 24, 2017

1) I'm still new to this, but why would someone not use Angular Universal/why is it not default? I have only read positives, but am sure there must be a reason. 2) Why do we need Angular Material 2, when Google's official Material Components Web project is meant to be used with all kinds of frameworks and even has framework integration examples with Angular2: https://github.com/material-components/material-components-w... 3) Should I follow Quickstart or CLI Quickstart in the docs to get started? I have heard that the CLI is recommended nowadays, but the Angular 4.0 release blog says the CLI isn't even stable.

In Angular 4.0.0 Now Available

laichzeit0·Mar 2, 2017

I used Angular Material to build a website. I dunno if you've ever been to the Angular Material website *https://material.angularjs.org/latest/), but check it out if you haven't. You see that nifty looking navigation bar on the left? You can't actually build that using Angular Material given all those wonderful components they list there. There are entire blog posts created so you can make a similar looking navigation menu [1][2]. There are so many things missing or incomplete in this framework that you'll only realize when you try and build a "real" application with it. Guess what? Angular Material is dead. All the developers decided to start over with Angular Material 2 because there's a new screwdriver brand in town: Angular 2. Yay for the people who just want functional doors. [1] http://blog.vizuri.com/creating-your-own-angular-m

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aterial-na... [2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28389671/create-a-menu-li... Let's talk about Material Design Lite. Go check that website, especially the components page (https://getmdl.io/components/index.html). It's really nice and responsive, try changing the size of your browser window and see how the navigation bar collapses to the top. Damn this looks like a great framework, I'd like to do the same thing in my app. Imaging the surprise when you can't actually do that using the framework out-of-the-box. Oh by the way, forget about MDL, all the developers have moved on to Material Components for the Web (https://github.com/material-components/material-components-w...). So much for the guys who just want to hang a door, there's a new brand of screwdrivers on the block. It would be great if the so-called "engineers" could spend some more time creating a complete toolbox instead of reinventing new screwdrivers every month.

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