When comparing Angular Material vs Onsen UI, the Slant community recommends Onsen UI for most people. In the question“What are the best Angular component libraries for desktop and mobile?” Onsen UI is ranked 2nd while Angular Material is ranked 6th. The most important reason people chose Onsen UI is:
Onsen UI is open source, and completely free to use.
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Pros
Pro Components designed with accessibility in mind
Stemming from the Material Design guidelines on accessibility, Angular Material components are designed with many aspects of accessibility in mind. These include screen reader support and labelling, minimum contrast, focus traversal, consistent visual cues, visually guiding animations, touch target sizing considerations, minimum spacing, clear fonts, and more. All this can be a challenge when rolling your own components.
Pro Framework integrated components
Because the components are designed with Angular in mind, they are simpler to use and more powerful than a framework agnostic component library.
Pro Open source and free
Onsen UI is open source, and completely free to use.
Pro Can be used for web apps as well
Onsen UI is usable for classic web development as well as mobile.
Pro Large selection of components
Onsen UI provides a wide selection of components that are ready to use out of the box and are easily customizable.
Pro Easy to use
Onsen UI provides very clear, well-written and detailed documentation.
It uses popular technologies that are likely already familiar to developers (such as jQuery and Angular).
The framework is semantic and intuitive to use, making it quite fast to learn.
Pro Supports React
React is the most trending front-end UI framework, naturally supporting that is a plus.