Material Design vs Bootstrap (or both?)

[Rich Leach]

I'm going to be designing more and doing more layout work for Angular and wanted to know if the community has a preferred toolset?

I've seen a lot of Material Design https://material.angular.io/

but I've done a lot with Bootstrap in the past so I found

https://mdbootstrap.com/angular/

(which isn't free, I know) but looks a lot more familiar.

Any others out there I should consider? Not trying to start a war or debate, just trying to understand what's out there and mainstream....

Thanks,

Rich

[Zlatko Đurić]

You need bootstrap to have the material theme specifically or regular bootstrap works for you? If you don't care, maybe you can put your bootstrap experience to good use with ngx-bootstrap or ng-bootstrap?

I've also used MD lite (https://getmdl.io/) but had to write some wrappers for integrating fully, I do not recommend that now that Angular Material 2 is ready.

[Sander Elias]

Hi Rich,

Well, don't use both in the same app. There are excellent libraries for both. Google has its own Material Design spec. You have found the official supported one already, but there are more available.

For Bootstrap there are also a number of implementations. I'll like the ngBootstrap that is developed in close collaboration with the core team. I heard good stories about ngx-bootstrap too. 

As a side note, I would love to see that all UI-library vendors would move to WebComponents, as this would make it so much easier to use their components in any framework.

Regards

Sander