Is Angular 4 material responsive like bootstrap?

Question

I am starting on a new project with Angular 4 and need to create responsive and pleasant user interface.

• bootstrap gives you responsiveness, but no material feel
• angular material provides that nice UI experience https://material.angular.io

I know bootstrap and used it in previous AngularJS apps, but angular material is new to me. It seems easy to follow docs but i cannot find the responsiveness support.

I don't want to mix them but have not been able to find that column responsiveness for mobile support that bootstrap provides.

Am I missing something? Does angular material support similar responsiveness or should I used both in my app?

Bactria

Check @angular/flex-layout. The material components are responsive up to some extent (font size, text decorators, etc), but to create responsive layouts, angular offers the mentioned package. – Least

will it work with @angular/material without conflicts? – Bactria

yes, no problems – Least

Answer 1

To add responsiveness in modern angular app you can use Flex-layout it is completely separate from material2 so you can use that even without using material2 in your app.

Bare in mind that as flex-layout is based on Flexbox CSS so it is not supported in old browsers.

Here are some examples

Also check out the new ngAir episode episode talking about Flex-Layout

UPDATE:

Starting from 6.0.0-beta.16 flex-layout now has an API to support CSS Grid. You can find more details by checking pr#712

Taxexempt

I laughed when I tried it and learned that it just shrinks the contents instead of letting each contents collapse naturally as the view size changes. :D – Bushranger

@JhourladEstrella Have you gone through Responsive API for flexbox ? – Inorganic

But it seems that all the releases are in beta – Insula

@AbhinandanKhilari github.com/angular/flex-layout/issues/713 – Taxexempt

Answer 2

A bit late but I have created a starter template that shows an example of a responsive layout with Material 5 and Angular 5 as well as some simple routing. https://github.com/kenji-1996/material-sidenav-responsive-starter

Uses Material and Flex, no outside libs

Bonheur