19 Best Angular UI frameworks to use for faster development

Angular is a platform and framework for building single-page client applications using HTML and TypeScript. Angular provides the use of components by splitting them into separate reusable pieces and you can use them in your Angular project.

CSS is the main part of decorating your project no matter which JS framework you are using. In the current era, we can’t imagine coding without the CSS framework (UI framework), Specially we are working on different screen sizes and multiple browsers.

UI Frameworks Downloads through npm in the past 1 year

So the big question is which UI framework is best for your project. For this scenario, I have prepared a small article to provide you helping hand. Below are the most popular and best Angular UI frameworks.

1. Angular Material

Angular Material is the most commonly used UI framework with Angular projects. It is an official component library developed by Google. The Angular team builds and maintains both common UI components and tools to help you build your own custom components.

Features:

• Reusable components — forms. cards and more
• Style guides — branding standards, color palettes, CSS variables, and themes support
• The large set of Material Design icons
• Component Dev Kit (CDK) for common interaction
• Data table, Navigation Menu, Side Navigation, and ToolBar
• Custom components

Stars on Github: 19.7 k+

Fork on Github: 5.3 k+

npm weekly downloads: 529 k+

Latest version: 9.2.1

2. ngx-bootstrap

ngx-bootstrap is based on veteran CSS framework leader bootstrap. I believe bootstrap was one of the most popular framework across web and UI developers. If you are looking for bootstrap support for your project, You get 2 frameworks based on bootstrap. The first one is Valor-Software’s framework ‘ngx-bootstrap’ and another is ng-bootstrap. For the second, I will brief in the next paragraph. ngx-bootstrap is based on Bootstrap 3 or Bootstrap 4 Components. It supports all core bootstrap components and widgets of bootstrap and keeps extensibility and adaptivity in designs.

Stars on Github: 5.1 k+

Fork on Github: 1.6 k+

npm weekly downloads: 162 k+

Latest version: 4.0.1

3. NG bootstrap

NG-bootstrap is another bootstrap based UI framework that offers Bootstrap 4 components for Angular. One advantage of NG bootstrap is there are no dependencies required of 3rd party JavaScript. Most of its features are the same as those of ngx-bootstrap, but with the different project teams As it is developed by ng-bootstrap team.

Stars on Github: 7.5 k+

Fork on Github: 1.3 k+

npm weekly downloads: 231 k+

Latest version: 6.1.0

4. Prime NG

This component suite is a comprehensive set of more than 80 UI components. Prime NG is a commonly used UI framework developed by PrimeTek Informatics. PrimeFaces UI suite that appertains without any doubts about the set of the most progressive systems for Java. PrimeNG is a collection of rich UI components for Angular. All widgets are open source and free to use under MIT License.

Features:

• 80+ Components: The most complete set of native widgets featuring 80+ easy to use components for all your UI requirements.
• Open Source: Hosted at GitHub, all widgets are open source and free to use under MIT license. Feel the power of open source.
• Productivity: Allocate your valuable time on business logic rather than dealing with the complex user interface requirements.
• Themes: Don’t get tied up in just one look&feel. Choose from a variety of options including material and flat design.
• Templates: Professionally designed highly customizable native Angular CLI application templates to get started in no time.
• Mobile: Enhanced mobile user experience with touch optimized responsive design elements.

Stars on Github: 5.9k+

Fork on Github: 3k+

npm weekly downloads: 187k+

Latest version: 9.0.6

5. Covalent UI

Covalent is a UI Platform focused on solving common enterprise needs. Covalent follows the Material Design spec and works along Angular Material to have a unified experience. It is developed by Data management company Teradata. Covalent UI has an enormous set of elements and probably the most mature document support compared with the others.

Features:

• Bundled with 20+ UI components
• Fully pre-made layouts, data table, wizard stepper, custom pipes, services, utility functions and more
• Atomic components made to facilitate visualizations
• 9+ chart types including: bar, scatter, treemap and more
• Build forms from a JS object

Stars on Github: 2.1 k+

Fork on Github: 330

npm weekly downloads: 5 k+

Latest version: v3

6. ngx-foundation

ngx-foundation is another UI framwork based on the veteran CSS framework foundation. ngx-foundation works with all core Foundation for Sites components powered by Angular. Original JS components like jQuery and foundation.js are not needed, but they are using markup and the base SCSS provided by Foundation for Sites.

Features:

• Responsive and Mobile-Ready
• No jQuery or Additional Libraries
• Flexible Code and Styling
• Less Code Less Work

Stars on Github: 9

Fork on Github: 2

npm weekly downloads: 198

Latest version: 1.0.8

7. Kendo UI

Kendo is one of the most supportive UI framework for Angular. Kendo UI is a rich and large component based library that will upgrade your application to the next level.

Features:

• Native Angular UI Components
• 80+ UI components
• Performance and Speed
• Accessibility & Localization
• Flexible Themes & ThemeBuilder

Stars on Github: 2.3k

Fork on Github: 1.8k

npm weekly downloads: 52k

Latest version: 2020.1.406

8. Onsen UI

Onsen UI is a large set of rich UI components specifically designed for responsive applications. It is an open source framework that makes it easy to create native-feeling Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) and hybrid apps. Onsen-UI for Angular provides components with Material and Flat designs, with binding for Angular. Onsen UI for Angular exposes a simple but powerful API. All UI components can be easily plugged into your Angular mobile app.

Features:

• Powerful APIs
• All UI components can be easily plugged into Angular mobile app.

Stars on Github: 7.9k

Fork on Github: 911

npm weekly downloads: 13k

Latest version: 2.10.10

9. Clarity

Clarity is another rich CSS based UI framework developed by VMware group. It is open source design system that brings together UX guidelines, HTML/CSS framework and Angular components. Clarity’s designs stem from continuous exploration and research. These designs are built into HTML/CSS components, which can be used any web UI, regardless of the underlying JavaScript framework. Clarity also offers a set of well-designed and implemented data-bound components built on top of Angular, one of the most popular JavaScript frameworks in the industry.

Features:

• Exceptional UX
• Open-source

Stars on Github: 5.8k

Fork on Github: 609

npm weekly downloads: 13k

Latest version: 2.10.10

10. Vadddin Components

Vaadin components provide Material inspired UI components for mobile and desktop apps, Which helps to bridge the gap between Polymer elements and Angular components. Here the elements are kept in different repos even when they are grouped as a single one as you can find individually on Bit. In order to get a better experience for sharing the codes between the developers and apps, the library integrates Git, package managers, and other tools. It helps you take all the pressure outside your codes as it will let you with codeshare by reusing or sharing components without configurations or refactoring.

Stars on Github: 235

Fork on Github: 37

npm weekly downloads: 255

Latest version: 13.0.9

11. Semantic UI

Semantic-UI is one of the most popular UI Component libraries for JavaScript frameworks. Angular UI building blocks based on Semantic-UI. According to its documentation, Angular and jQuery don’t go together — this is the fundamental principle of this library. It provides Angular component versions of the Semantic UI modules so that you don't need to add jQuery to your app.

Features:

• 3000+ Theming Variables
• 50+ UI components

Stars on Github: 616

Fork on Github: 219

npm weekly downloads: 1k

Latest version: 0.9.7

12. NG Lightning

NG Lighting is a UI framework that was developed for the Lightning Design System of Salesforce. These stateless functional components depend only on their input properties, to provide improved performance and enhanced flexibility. This library contains native Angular components and directives written from scratch in TypeScript using the Lightning Design System CSS framework.

Stars on Github: 825

Fork on Github: 112

npm weekly downloads: 1.2k

Latest version: 5.0.0

13. Ignite UI

Ignite UI for Angular is a complete set of Material-based UI Widgets, Components & Sketch UI kits and supporting directives for Angular by Infragistics. Ignite UI for Angular is designed to enable developers to build the most modern, high-performance HTML5 & JavaScript apps for modern desktop browsers, mobile experiences and progressive web apps (PWA’s) targeting Google’s Angular framework. It is designed and optimized for high performance, high volume data scenarios.

Stars on Github: 384

Fork on Github: 112

npm weekly downloads: 4.1k

Latest version: 9.0.12

14. NG Zorro

NG Zorro component library is a great and rich collection of complete enterprise-class UI which is based on Ant Design. It contains a set of high-quality components and building rich, interactive user interfaces.

Features:

• An enterprise-class UI design language for web applications.
• A set of high-quality Angular components out of the box.
• Written in TypeScript with complete defined types.
• Support OnPush mode, high performance.
• Powerful theme customization in every detail.
• Internationalization support for dozens of languages.

Stars on Github: 6.4k

Fork on Github: 2.2k

npm weekly downloads: 24k

Latest version: 9.1.0

15. jQWidgets

Build modern Web Apps with jQWidgets and Angular 9. jQWidgets Angular UI components will help you to build perfect looking web applications. Use the most advanced UI framework for Angular 9 and save your time for the business logic. Choose from more than 60 UI components for Angular.

Features:

• 60+ UI components.
• jQWidgets provides a complete set of UI components — Data Grid , Chart, Scheduler, TreeGrid and more.

Stars on Github: 198

Fork on Github: 123

npm weekly downloads: 579

Latest version: 9.1.4

16. Amexio

Amexio (Angular MetaMagic EXtensions for Inputs and Outputs) is a rich set of (Google) Angular 6/7 UI components powered by Responsive Design along with Google Material Design Support and Amexio based Themes support.

Features:

• Responsive Web Design
• 170+ UI Components
• 80+ Additional UI Features
• Accessibility Support
• Template Driven Forms & Reactive Forms
• Powerful Layouts, CSS3 Grids
• Drag and Drop Components
• 70+ Built-in Themes / Material Design

Stars on Github: 155

Fork on Github: 67

npm weekly downloads: 78

Latest version: 5.20.0

17. Wijmo

Wijmo Angular grids, charts, inputs, and gauges are feature-rich, extensible, and fast. All of our components are available in every framework and support every version of Angular.

Features:

• Includes rich declarative markup and deep integration for all Wijmo components
• Best Angular Datagrid
• Framework agnostic
• Full IntelliSense in Visual Studio Code
• No dependencies
• Supports Angular 8

Stars on Github: 115

Fork on Github: 38

npm weekly downloads: 5.6k

Latest version: 5.20201.664

18. DevExtreme

DevExtreme Angular UI Components are distributed via npm and integrated with Angular CLI, Webpack, SystemJS and other modern toolsets. With dozens of examples and a support team ready to help you at every turn, we’ve made it easy to incorporate our products in your next great web app. 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.

Stars on Github: 477

Fork on Github: 126

npm weekly downloads: 68k

Latest version: 20.1.3

19. ag-Grid

The “ag” part of ag-Grid stands for “agnostic”. The internal ag-Grid engine is implemented in TypeScript with zero dependencies. It is possible to use no framework with ag-Grid and use the fully featured JavaScript only version. ag-Grid also supports all major frameworks by providing ag-Grid Components for each popular framework and allowing customization of the grid using the framework of your choice. It comes with more than 63 Core and Enterprise features which make it possible to have ready implementations.

Stars on Github: 201

Fork on Github: 61

npm weekly downloads: 63.8k

Latest version: 23.1.0

Other CSS framwork support in Angular

Apart from these, Also some more CSS UI framework available for use in Angular. For these we have to add their js and CSS into our angular.json

Bulma: Bulma is a free, open source CSS framework based on Flexbox and used by more than 200,000 developers.

uikit: UIkit gives you a comprehensive collection of HTML, CSS, and JS components which is simple to use, easy to customize and extendable.

Susy: Susy is a lightweight grid-layout engine for Sass, designed to simplify and clarify responsive grid layouts without ever getting in your way. You can use Susy with floats, flexbox, tables, or any other CSS technique.

Milligram: Milligram provides a minimal setup of styles for a fast and clean starting point. Specially designed for better performance and higher productivity with fewer properties to reset resulting in cleaner code.

So which of these UI framework you want to try or tried in the past. Or something is better that I have missed. Let me know in the comments.