Installing Angular Material 6

At the time of writing, Angular Material version is 6.4.6. It needs Angular version 6, so we need to make sure we have the recent version. Below are NPM command lines to install latest version of Angular, Angular Material and packages that it requires:

// make sure to remove older version of Angular first
npm uninstall -g @angular/cli
npm uninstall -g angular-cli

// clean the cache and verify
npm cache clean
npm cache verify

// installing the packages
npm install -g @angular/cli
// Yarn package manager is required by Angular CLI
npm install -g yarn

// check the version
ng –version

// create a new Angular application
ng new angularmaterial

cd angularmaterial

// serve the application and show in browser 
ng serve

// install Angular Material and required Angular CDK
npm install --save @angular/material @angular/cdk

The application shown on the browser should automatically refresh every time you make changes to the codes. If it is not working try to put some polling interval, like:

ng serve --poll=2000