Angular Material vs react-md

Angular Material is a free library of Material Design UI components for Angular applications. Add it with the Angular CLI command `ng add @angular/material`, then choose a prebuilt theme or configure a custom theme. Setup can add global typography styles, the Roboto font, and Material Symbols. Schematics generate prebuilt pieces such as navigation, tables, and address forms. The Angular CDK supplies tools for authoring custom components around common interaction patterns. The Angular Components team describes the components as accessible and internationalized, with listed screen-reader combinations spanning Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and Chrome OS. Supported browsers are the most recent two versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. Angular Material and the CDK follow Angular’s release and support policy. The project focuses on UI components, not application layout. Shadow DOM is not officially supported, although the team aims to keep components working there. The plan is free, with an MIT license.

react-md is a free React component library for web interfaces, styled with Sass and SCSS. It provides more than 100 components, over 60 hooks, and 40 utilities, including building blocks for fixed headers, navigation panels, and main content areas. Styles follow Material Design and can be configured during compilation with Sass variables or at runtime with Sass functions and mixins. Customized colors are automatically updated to meet a minimum contrast ratio. More complex widgets follow W3C ARIA authoring practices for screen-reader access and keyboard movement. The default theme uses #2196f3 and #ff9100 as primary and secondary colors, with Roboto as the default font. Icons can come from custom icons, SVG components in @react-md/material-icons, or Material Symbols. Installation requires React and ReactDOM v19 or above, plus @react-md/core and sass. Documentation covers npm, pnpm, yarn, and font setup through Fontsource, Google Fonts CDN, or Next.js.