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Dharmen Shah for Angular Material Dev

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I Stopped Building the Same Angular Components Over and Over. Here's How.


Real talk: how many times have you built a login page?

Not the first time — that was fine. But the fifth time? The tenth? At some point it stops being "building" and starts being "typing things you already know into a new folder."

I hit that wall working on an Angular project a while back. And it made me think hard about where my actual time was going.


The Repetition Problem in Angular Projects

Most Angular apps share a very predictable set of UI patterns:

  • Auth screens (login, signup, password reset)
  • Dashboard layouts with sidebars and stat cards
  • Data tables with sorting, filtering, pagination
  • Settings/profile pages with forms and toggles
  • File upload flows
  • Onboarding steps

None of these are hard to build. But they're time-consuming, and when different devs build them independently, you get subtle inconsistencies — different spacing, slightly different behavior, varying accessibility. Your codebase starts to drift.


The Solution: Angular Material Blocks

I came across ui.angular-material.dev — a library of pre-built UI blocks built specifically for Angular Material + Tailwind CSS.

The idea is straightforward: instead of rebuilding the same UI patterns from scratch on every project, you grab a block, drop it in, and customize from there.

Here's what's available:

✅ Auth flows — login, register, forgot password
✅ Dashboard layouts — sidebar, topnav, stats panels
✅ Data tables — sortable, paginated, filterable
✅ Settings pages — account, notifications, workspace
✅ File uploads, onboarding, invoice views, and more

Everything is written for Angular Material's component system, so it plays nicely with your existing MatModule imports and theming. Tailwind handles the utility styling layer — no custom CSS bloat.


Why This Matters More Than You'd Think

The first-time time saving is obvious. But the compounding benefits are bigger:

Consistency by default. When your auth screen and your settings page both come from the same design system, they look like they belong together without extra effort.

Faster onboarding. New devs on your team can read and contribute to a block-based UI much faster than deciphering someone else's handcrafted component spaghetti.

Less design debt. You're not making micro-decisions about button padding and form spacing on every screen. Those decisions are already made.

More time for actual product work. The unique parts of your app — the business logic, the data layer, the features that make it yours — deserve your full attention. Not another login form.


Who It's Built For

  • Freelancers and solo devs who need to ship polished UIs fast without a dedicated designer
  • Startup frontend teams who want a professional, consistent baseline from day one
  • Angular devs who jump between projects and want to stop copy-pasting their own old code

Individual Templates Available Too

If you don't need the full library, there are also standalone page templates — great if you just need a dashboard or a specific screen without committing to the whole thing.

Browse individual templates


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Sale ends May 31st — no extensions.


TL;DR

  • Rebuilding the same Angular UI patterns on every project is a time and consistency problem
  • Angular Material Blocks gives you production-ready UI blocks for Angular Material + Tailwind CSS
  • Drop them in, customize, and focus on the parts of your app that actually matter
  • 50% off until May 31st — ui.angular-material.dev

Have you found a good system for reusing UI across Angular projects? Drop it in the comments — always curious how other devs handle this.

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