Making an outstanding application requires a design that meets users’ demands and goals. We’ve gathered GitHub’s top-rated libraries for Angular to choose from.
Join the DZone community and get the full member experience. Angular is one of the most popular JavaScript web frameworks. Angular’s approach to organizing the programmer’s work involves hiding the execution of various service operations in the depths of the framework, giving the developer convenient tools built on the basis of internal mechanisms. Angular, like React, encourages the use of components and splitting the application interface into small reusable chunks. We’ve made a list of libraries for Angular, which you may find useful in your next or current project. Most of them are designed for Angular2+, however, some of them are suitable for older versions of the framework. One of the advantages here is that you can extract individual components from Angular libraries and use them in a project without installing the entire library. Clarity is an open-source design system created by VMware that has 6.2K stars on GitHub. It is a combination of UX design guidelines, an HTML/CSS framework, and Angular components. Clarity provides developers with a rich set of high-performance data-bound components. A huge number of interactive elements can be implemented by using this library. Among them, there are accordion, date picker, login, signpost, timeline, toggle, and many others. Visual components of Clarity library (source: https://clarity.design/) Login component of Clarity library (source: https://clarity.design/) Timeline component of Clarity library (source: https://clarity.design/) Material is an official Angular component library that implements Google’s Material Design concepts. This library has 21.2K stars on GitHub. These UI components can be thought of as code examples, written according to the guidelines of the Angular development team. Among the interactive elements that can be implemented by using this library, there are autocomplete, form field, progress spinner, slider, stepper, tabs, and others. Visual components of Material library (source: https://material.angular.io/) The NGX Bootstrap library has about 5.3K stars on GitHub. Here you can find basic components that implement the capabilities of the Bootstrap template written specifically for Angular. It is suitable for developing desktop and mobile applications and is designed with extensibility and adaptability in mind. One of the features of this library is a variety of element forms. Among the element forms that could be added to your application, accordion with custom HTML, various forms of carousels, pager pagination, and different ratings deserve special mention. Custom HTML component of NGX Bootstrap library (source: https://valor-software.com/ngx-bootstrap/) Basic carousel component of NGX Bootstrap library (source: https://valor-software.com/ngx-bootstrap/) Prime NG is a library that includes an extensive set of more than 70 UI components. At the same time, different types of styling are available here, for example, Material Design and Flat Design. Prime NG has approximately 6.6K stars on GitHub and is used by companies such as eBay, Fox, and many others. All this suggests that this library is worth the attention of those who are looking for a suitable set of components for their project. The library also includes the following features: different forms of fields, various buttons, menu forms, messages, toasts, a timeline, and many others.
