Angular Material Upgrade Planner
Pick a source and target Angular Material version (8–22) for an ordered upgrade plan — MDC migration, legacy removal, Material 3 theming, and ng update commands.
Choose your upgrade path
Angular Material 10 → Angular Material 11
(4 steps)Angular Material’s major version must match the Angular core major version. Update them together in the same hop, upgrade one major at a time on a branch, and run the app/tests after each hop. Commit a clean tree first.
Angular Material 11 requires the same toolchain as Angular 11: TypeScript 4.0.
Update Material alongside the Angular core and CLI so the Material migration schematics for this version run.
ng update @angular/core@11 @angular/cli@11 @angular/material@11
Mostly dependency bumps and small fixes for Material this hop. Run the update schematics and review the changelog for any component you customize heavily.
Angular Material 11 → Angular Material 12
(4 steps)Angular Material’s major version must match the Angular core major version. Update them together in the same hop, upgrade one major at a time on a branch, and run the app/tests after each hop. Commit a clean tree first.
Angular Material 12 requires the same toolchain as Angular 12: Node 12.14+ and TypeScript 4.2.
Update Material alongside the Angular core and CLI so the Material migration schematics for this version run.
ng update @angular/core@12 @angular/cli@12 @angular/material@12
Material 12 adopts the Sass module system. Replace @import "~@angular/material/theming" with @use "@angular/material" as mat; and use mat.define-light-theme, mat.core, and mat.all-component-themes. The update includes a theming migration schematic.
@use '@angular/material' as mat;
Angular Material 12 → Angular Material 13
(4 steps)Angular Material’s major version must match the Angular core major version. Update them together in the same hop, upgrade one major at a time on a branch, and run the app/tests after each hop. Commit a clean tree first.
Angular Material 13 requires the same toolchain as Angular 13: Node 12.20+/14.15+/16.10+ and TypeScript 4.4.
Update Material alongside the Angular core and CLI so the Material migration schematics for this version run.
ng update @angular/core@13 @angular/cli@13 @angular/material@13
Material 13 tightens the public theming API (use mat.* functions rather than deep imports) and updates the Angular Package Format. Stop importing from internal paths if you were.
Tip: Always upgrade Angular Material together with Angular core (their majors must match) and one major at a time. The hardest hops are the MDC rewrite at v15 and the Material 3 theming switch at v18 — budget extra time for visual QA there. This is a representative checklist; confirm specifics against the official Angular Material guides for your versions.
Upgrading Angular Material 10 to Angular Material 13
This plan covers the full path from Angular Material 10 to Angular Material 13 — 3 version hops and 12 steps in total. Upgrade Angular Material together with Angular core, one major at a time, running ng update for each hop so the Material migration schematics apply. Commit and run thorough visual QA between hops.
Hops in this path
- Angular Material 10 → Angular Material 11 — 4 steps
- Angular Material 11 → Angular Material 12 — 4 steps
- Angular Material 12 → Angular Material 13 — 4 steps
Before you start
- Upgrade on a branch and keep Angular Material's major in lockstep with Angular core.
- Get on the latest minor/patch of Angular Material 10 before the first hop.
- Plan extra time for visual QA on the MDC (v15) and Material 3 theming (v18) hops if they fall in this range.