How to correctly import the Angular Material module through a shared module in Angular 4?

Question

I\'m building an application using Angular paired with Angular Material, and I\'m having some issues with my modules structure.

As the guidelines suggest, importing

Answer 1

Your approach is great. The structure that you have presented is an alternative that was presented in material.angular.io. I am unsure to why your tooltip does not work. But I would like to advise you to only use your custom MaterialModule only once on the root module. There is no need to import it in the SharedModule again.