Responsive Navigation with Angular Material

Angular Material is a popular UI component library for Angular applications. It provides a set of ready-to-use components and styles that make it easy to create responsive and visually appealing user interfaces. In this article, we will explore how to create a responsive navigation bar using Angular Material for an address book project.

Setting up Angular Material

To get started, we need to first install Angular Material and its dependencies. We can do this using the following command:


npm install @angular/material @angular/cdk @angular/animations


Next, we need to import the Angular Material modules in our app module. This can be done by adding the following lines to the imports section of the app module:


import {MatToolbarModule} from '@angular/material/toolbar';
import {MatButtonModule} from '@angular/material/button';
import {MatSidenavModule} from '@angular/material/sidenav';


Creating a Responsive Navigation Bar

Now that we have Angular Material set up, we can create a responsive navigation bar for our address book project. We can start by creating a toolbar at the top of the page and a sidenav for the navigation menu. The toolbar will contain a menu icon that will toggle the sidenav when clicked.




menu

Address Book




Contacts
Groups








In the above code, we have used the mat-toolbar, mat-sidenav, and mat-nav-list components from Angular Material to create a responsive navigation bar. The toolbar contains a menu button that toggles the sidenav, and the sidenav contains links to different pages in the address book project.

Conclusion

By using Angular Material, we were able to create a responsive navigation bar for our address book project. The navigation bar adjusts itself based on the screen size, making it suitable for both desktop and mobile devices. Angular Material provides a set of powerful components and styles that can be used to create visually appealing and responsive user interfaces for Angular applications.