Why should you choose PrimeNG for Angular UI Components Over Angular Material?
Abstract:
Choosing a UI component library is necessary and can be difficult, as using more than one UI component library at a time is not recommended to avoid conflict in design patterns.
The selection of a good UI component library will provide effortless performance of components: predefined CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), and attractive themes for a better user experience.
PrimeNG:
Prime NG is a comprehensive component suite that includes over 80+ UI components and is popular among organizations such as eBay, FOX, etc.,
PrimeNG has a rich collection of components that would satisfy most of the UI requirements of your application like data table, dropdown, multi-select, notification messages, accordion, breadcrumbs and other input components. So there would be no need of adding different libraries for different UI requirements.
Prime NG provides you with templates and code below them. Over 80+ Angular UI Components with top-notch quality to help you implement all your UI requirements in style.
Primeng vs Material UI:
Popularity:
Table 1: Statistics for Angular Material and PrimeNG
According to above statistics trends, Angular Material is preferred by more people, compared to PrimeNG. This may be a result of the fact that Angular Material is developed by the same team that developed Angular. Angular Material is very easy to use and required minimal coding, which may attract programmers that are beginners.
On the other hand, PrimeNG is less popular, compared to Angular Material. This may be a result of the fact that PrimeNG can be a little inefficient when it comes to the actual performance of the components. This library majorly focuses on designing and a beautiful appearance in the web application, as opposed to simplicity and performance. A lot of variation in the components allows users to build complex functionality easily.
Components:
Table 2: Number of Components
As we can see in Table 2, PrimeNG has components that are far greater in number than those available in Angular Material.
This is due to PrimeTek Informatics, the creators of PrimeNG, being very experienced at creating UI component libraries such as siblings to PrimeNG, PrimeFaces which is built for JSF, and PrimeReact which is built for React.
Most complex functionalities can be displayed well by using the preexisting components in this library. This reduces the resources required to develop complex functionalities.
With many components, the need for proper documentation arises. PrimeNG does not have adequate documentation for all of its components and their variations. The developers may have to figure out a few features on their own.
Conclusion:
Both of these libraries have their own perks of being selected for the right web application. Angular Material can be selected where performance is prioritized more than the overall look and feel of the components, whereas PrimeNG can be selected where themes, styling, and varying functionality implementation are preferred.
Angular Material is user-friendly and can be used by beginners; it is also preferred by a lot of experienced developers as it is highly customizable. PrimeNG can be used by experienced developers that would want to apply complex functionality with style, without having to customize or code for most of it.
