About this project
Material Web is a library of web components maintained under the material-components organization. Its stated purpose is to help build beautiful and accessible web applications, and it implements Material 3, the latest version of Google's open-source design system.
What it provides
- A collection of custom elements (prefixed md-) that can be used in plain HTML, such as md-checkbox, md-radio, md-outlined-text-field, md-outlined-button and md-icon-button.
- A shared "all.js" entry point that imports the full component set, plus individual component modules for more selective loading.
- Typography support through a typescale styles module (md-typescale-styles.js), which exposes an adoptable stylesheet that can be pushed into document.adoptedStyleSheets. Utility classes such as md-typescale-display-medium and md-typescale-body-medium map to the Material typescale.
The README shows a buildless quick-start example that loads the library from a CDN via an import map and a module script, alongside the Roboto webfont from Google Fonts. A separate quick-start guide in the docs covers installing and building for production.
Documentation and resources
- docs/intro.md - introduction
- docs/roadmap.md - roadmap
- docs/components/ - per-component documentation
- docs/size.md - bundle size information
- docs/support.md - browser support and FAQ
- docs/quick-start.md - installation and production build guidance
Project status
- The README states explicitly that MWC (Material Web Components) is in maintenance mode pending new maintainers, and links to a GitHub discussion. Anyone evaluating it for a long-term project should account for that.
- For Angular users, the README recommends the Angular Material components instead.
Distribution and licensing context
- Published on npm as @material/web, with version and download statistics shown via badges, and also reachable through CDN services such as esm.run and jsDelivr.
- Continuous integration test status is exposed through a GitHub Actions workflow badge, and the repository points to a Lit Discord chat for community support.
Typical use
Because these are standard web components, they are framework-agnostic and can be dropped into any page or application that supports custom elements, including static sites, server-rendered pages and JavaScript frameworks. Styling and theming follow Material 3 conventions, and form-associated controls participate in native HTML forms.
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