can not find module “@angular/material”

Question

I\'m using Angular 2. When I\'m trying to import \"@angular/material\" i\'m getting error for this. I\'m importing packages like:

import {MdDialog} from \"@angul         


        

Answer 1

I followed each of the suggestions here (I'm using Angular 7), but nothing worked. My app refused to acknowledge that @angular/material existed, so it showed an error on this line:

import { MatCheckboxModule } from '@angular/material';

Even though I was using the --save parameter to add Angular Material to my project:

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

...it refused to add anything to my "package.json" file.

I even tried deleting the package-lock.json file, as some articles suggest that this causes problems, but this had no effect.

To fix this issue, I had to manually add these two lines to my "package.json" file.

{
    "devDependencies": {
        ...
        "@angular/material": "~7.2.2",
        "@angular/cdk": "~7.2.2",
        ...

What I can't tell is whether this is an issue related to using Angular 7, or if it's been around for years....