Most useful Angular libraries that help you in your next project

Angular is one of the most popular front-end web application platforms in the world. It comes with all the tools and best practices that allow you to use components to split your UI into different, reusable pieces.

Angular is a complete JavaScript framework for creating dynamic and interactive applications in HTML. Aside from being one of the hottest frameworks on the web, Angular is easy to learn and help you to develop complex single-page web applications. It's a TypeScript-based open-source front-end web application framework led by the Angular Team at Google and by a community of individuals and corporations.

In this post, we have listed the popular Angular component libraries that are useful and a must for your next app development project in Angular.

So, let's get started -

Material2

Material2 is the official component library of Angular, which helps implement Google’s material design. It is built using Angular and TypeScript. Material2 is an example of how to write code while following Angular team’s best practices. You can use Bit Scope to install individual components.

Kendo UI

It delivers pure, high-performance Angular UI components without any jQuery dependencies. The Components page contains the most up-to-date list of included UI components. It enabling you to take full advantage of the framework’s native performance capabilities like Ahead of Time Compilation (AOT), Angular Universal, and Tree Shaking. Whether you develop Angular applications with TypeScript or JavaScript, look to Kendo UI for Angular for expertly-engineered, enterprise-ready UI components for your next Angular project.

Prime NG

It is a suite of 70 UI components, each with a different theme ranging from material to flat design. This component library is used by Fox, eBay, and other organizations. This library is an interesting option to consider.

NGX Bootstrap

NGX Bootstrap component library comprises all core Angular-powered Bootstrap components. It ensures performance for mobile as well as desktop, as it was designed keeping in mind extensibility and adaptivity.

Vaadin

Vaadin has Material-inspired UI components for web and mobile apps. This suit bridges the gap between Polymer elements and Angular components. All elements are placed in different repos. You can group them into a single repo or keep them individually with Bit.

Onsen UI

Onsen-UI is a popular library for hybrid and mobile web apps for Android and iOS using Javascript. Onsen-UI for Angular provides components with Material and Flat designs, with binding for Angular.

NG2 Charts

NG2 Charts has Angular directives for 6 types of charts, whose properties are based on chart.js. Using NG2 Charts suit, you can visualize large data and lists.

DevExtreme

Every DevExtreme Angular UI Component is built from nested components that you configure directly in the HTML template. This gives you all the power inherent in Angular bindings and its change detection mechanism, while your markup maintains consistency and readability.

NG Bootstrap

NG Bootstrap replaces Angular-UI bootstrap, which is not maintained now. You can find Bootstrap 4 components for Angular. You also get high testing coverage with no dependencies on 3rd party JS.

Essential JS 2

Essential JS 2 components library is the only suite that you will ever need to build an application since it contains over 55 high-performance, lightweight, modular, and responsive UI components in a single package. The entire library is built from scratch to be lightweight and modular. Its footprint can further be reduced by including only specific components and features that your application requires.

NG Lightning

NG Lightning elements are stateless functional components, which are developed for Salesforce Lightning Design System. These components depend on their input properties for performance and improved flexibility.

Clarity

Clarity is an open source design system by VMware that brings together UX guidelines, an HTML/CSS framework, and Angular components. It provides a rich set of data-bound, performant components on top of Angular.

NG-ZORRO

Written in TypeScript with complete define types, the NG- ZORRO components aim to provide an enterprise-class UI based on Ant Design. This Chinese-made library is an interesting option for web applications.

Amexio

Amexio (Angular MetaMagic EXtensions for Inputs and Outputs)  is a rich set of Angular 6 UI components powered by Responsive Design along with Google Material Design Support and Amexio based Themes support. It provides different modules (charts, maps, UI components etc) as an import for using our rich set of 85+ Components and can be easily configured and implemented in a project.