How to update angular material

Question

What is the best way to update angular material in a project to latest version [email protected] ?

I tried:

npm install --save @angular/material @angular/cdk

Answer 1

You'll want to use the npm update command. An example would look like this.

npm update @angular/material @angular/cdk

This will install the latest stable version. If you would like to target a specific version, you would have to specify it by adding the version to the end after an @ symbol.

Additionally, you can check for outdated packages with

npm outdated

Here's the documentation on npm update.

https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/update

Answer 2

Use the following command:

ng update @angular/material

Note: I recently used this command to upgrade from version 8 to version 9. I have not tested it for older versions. Works fine for all versions after version 9.

Answer 3

The following step helped me to update material theme from v9 to v10.

First removed the old package

npm remove @angular/material @angular/cdk

Then installed the latest package

npm add @angular/material @angular/cdk

Answer 4

Way 1

Have you try with a simple npm i @angular/material ? As reported at npmjs he will fetch the latest version.

Way 2

delete the file package-lock.json and in your package.json check that you are up to date with the latest angular material, after that simply do an npm i

Answer 5

first remove from `package-lock.json` this
  // "@angular/material": {
    //   "version": "6.4.7",
    //   "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@angular/material/-/material-6.4.7.tgz",
    //   "integrity": "sha512-SdNx7Xovi24Kw9eU6lkLhY/7f2M7L9F+/uh6XuPr4jbGgCUVVpeeVI5ztZhsZRbj1sN+/r1p5w8u62apWWl5Ww==",
    //   "requires": {
    //     "parse5": "^5.0.0",
    //     "tslib": "^1.7.1"
    //   },
    //   "dependencies": {
    //     "parse5": {
    //       "version": "5.1.0",
    //       "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/parse5/-/parse5-5.1.0.tgz",
    //       "integrity": "sha512- 
fxNG2sQjHvlVAYmzBZS9YlDp6PTSSDwa98vkD4QgVDDCAo84z5X1t5XyJQ62ImdLXx5NdIIfihey6xpum9/gRQ==",
    //       "optional": true
    //     }
    //   }
    // },
// "@angular/cdk": {
//   "version": "7.3.7",
//   "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@angular/cdk/-/cdk-7.3.7.tgz",
//   "integrity": "sha512-xbXxhHHKGkVuW6K7pzPmvpJXIwpl0ykBnvA2g+/7Sgy5Pd35wCC+UtHD9RYczDM/mkygNxMQtagyCErwFnDtQA==",
//   "requires": {
//     "parse5": "^5.0.0",
//     "tslib": "^1.7.1"
//   },
//   "dependencies": {
//     "parse5": {
//       "version": "5.1.0",
//       "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/parse5/-/parse5-5.1.0.tgz",
//       "integrity": "sha512-fxNG2sQjHvlVAYmzBZS9YlDp6PTSSDwa98vkD4QgVDDCAo84z5X1t5XyJQ62ImdLXx5NdIIfihey6xpum9/gRQ==",
//       "optional": true
//     }
//   }
// },


 second remove from `package.json` this line
      // "@angular/material": "^6.4.7",
      // "@angular/cdk": "^7.3.7",


then finaly run this
  npm install --save @angular/material @angular/cdk

Answer 6

it's better to use the angular tool to upgrade ng update by doing:

ng update @angular/material @angular/cli

in some rare cases, when you touch some material mixins this angular api doesn't work, in that case I suggest to use npm (or yarn for whom used to it) as:

# Removing the material previous version files from node_modules in the explorer or with the command
npm remove @angular/material @angular/cdk
# Or by using yarn:
yarn remove @angular/material @angular/cdk

# And re-install the new version of the packages:
npm i @angular/material@latest @angular/cdk@latest
# with yarn it gives:
yarn add @angular/material@latest @angular/cdk@latest

Answer 7

you should always try to use ng update @angular/material because it does not only update the packages. It also migrates your code, e.g. imports and so on.

I migrated from 7 to 11 and the imports changed from import { MatSnackBar } from '@angular/material'; to import { MatSnackBar } from '@angular/material/snack-bar';

Answer 8

For update angular material from existing lower version

1. Remove existing package

npm remove @angular/material @angular/cdk

2. Add new Package

npm add @angular/material @angular/cdk