A library of UI Components is a set of blocks or various components that help to develop the frontend part. For example, a component can be a button, a table, or a list with infinite scroll.
Normally these libraries are made by experts of the technology for which it is intended, and this ensures that the components are efficient, easy to use, and have a good responsive design. You cannot choose a bookstore for its own sake, but you must analyze that this bookstore adapts to what you are looking for and especially to the workflow because if we make a good choice it will allow us to save a lot of time. If you’re a freelance angular developer or it’s your permanent job, you these UI components should help you build better web apps.
How do I install a library with Angular?
Installing a library with Angular is extremely easy, you just have to go to the directory where you have the project and execute a command through the NodeJS package manager. We will show two examples, one fictitious and one with a real library:
npm install nombre-libreria
npm install ng-zorro-antd
With the previous command, we will already have the library installed in our project.
Ng-fox
This library is the result of combining Ant Design and Angular and is developed with TypeScript, and this is a good option to develop a web application. Personally I find that many of the components it contains have a great design and good functionality.
The benefit of using this library is that it has a wide variety of components with modern designs and at the same time it is easy to use, but above all the maintenance is done through engineers from the Computing Platform Unit and Alibaba, which is a largest Chinese company.
On the other hand, if you want to develop a project with this library you have to take into account that the documentation they have on the official page is of the latest version and therefore it can change from one day to the next and they only keep the documentation of the versions old stable of each release.
Ngx-bootstrap
This library is based on the famous Bootstrap, and its components have been powered by Angular. This means that we do not need the javascript of the original Bootstrap components and therefore they have a good optimization.
At the design level, it is practically the same as the original bootstrap but it has some extra features. It is a safe bet.
Prime NG
PrimeNG is a library with a large number of components and was one of the first alternatives to Material. An advantage and at the same time it could also be considered a disadvantage is that it allows you to customize the components a lot through the events or properties that you can edit by default, but if you have to edit a component it is already much more complicated. It is also in active development, that is, every 2 months or less they will release a new version. Besides, it has many integrated themes.
