5 Angular Material features that never make it into "top features" lists

Every "top Angular Material features" post lists the same six things: buttons, cards, datepicker, data table, theming, animations. Cool, we've all seen it. But Angular's still pulling around 3.8M weekly npm downloads in 2026 , and Angular Material has shipped a ton of stuff in the CDK and tooling layer that quietly saves weeks of custom work. Here's what I keep reaching for that almost nobody mentions. 1. Component Test Harnesses If you're still writing By.css('.mat-button') selectors in tests,