Porsche Design System

Angular

Table of Contents

Quick start
Integration

Quick start#

To build an Angular application using the Porsche Design System, follow these steps. This guide is based on the following dependencies:

@angular/*@20

tailwindcss@4

@porsche-design-system/components-angular@3

# Create a new application by executing:
npm install -g @angular/cli
ng new my-app

✔ Do you want to create a 'zoneless' application without zone.js (Developer Preview)? "Yes"
✔ Which stylesheet format would you like to use? "CSS"
✔ Do you want to enable Server-Side Rendering (SSR) and Static Site Generation (SSG/Prerendering)? "No"

You're all set! Start building your own application now.

Integration#

Step 1

Install the Porsche Design System within your project directory.

npm install @porsche-design-system/components-angular

Step 2

Add the PorscheDesignSystemModule to the imports array of your @Component or @NgModule declaration.

// src/app/app.ts

import { Component, signal } from '@angular/core';
import { RouterOutlet } from '@angular/router';
import { PorscheDesignSystemModule } from '@porsche-design-system/components-angular';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-root',
  imports: [RouterOutlet, PorscheDesignSystemModule],
  templateUrl: './app.html',
  styleUrl: './app.css',
})
export class App {
  protected readonly title = signal('angular');
}

Step 3 (recommended)

To boost your web application's performance and minimize issues like FOUC (Flash of Unstyled Content) and FOUT (Flash of Unstyled Text), you can integrate Partials from the Porsche Design System into the <head> section of your HTML.

Install @angular-builders/custom-webpack within your project directory.

npm install @angular-builders/custom-webpack --save-dev

Configure the angular.json.

"architect": {
  "build": {
-   "builder": "@angular/build:application",
+   "builder": "@angular-builders/custom-webpack:browser",
    "options": {
-     "browser": "src/main.ts",
+     "indexTransform": "./index-html-transform.js",
+     "outputPath": "./dist",
+     "index": "src/index.html",
+     "main": "src/main.ts",
    }
  }
  "serve": {
-   "builder": "@angular/build:dev-server",
+   "builder": "@angular-builders/custom-webpack:dev-server",

Create a index-html-transform.js file in your project root directory.

// index-html-transform.js

import {
  getComponentChunkLinks,
  getFontFaceStyles,
  getFontLinks,
  getIconLinks,
  getInitialStyles,
  getMetaTagsAndIconLinks,
} from '@porsche-design-system/components-angular/partials';

// https://github.com/just-jeb/angular-builders/blob/fdd7c8ed00b7eb7e1761aaa6cb5bda41693ceb5d/packages/custom-webpack/README.md#index-transform
export default (_, html) => {
  const headPartials = [
    // injects stylesheet which defines visibility of pre-hydrated PDS components
    getInitialStyles(),
    // injects stylesheet which defines Porsche Next CSS font-face definition (=> minimize FOUT)
    getFontFaceStyles(),
    // preloads Porsche Next font (=> minimize FOUT)
    getFontLinks(),
    // preloads PDS component core chunk from CDN for PDS component hydration (=> improve loading performance)
    getComponentChunkLinks(),
    // preloads Porsche icons (=> minimize FOUC)
    getIconLinks(),
    // injects favicon, apple touch icons, android touch icons, etc.
    getMetaTagsAndIconLinks({ appTitle: 'Porsche' }),
  ].join('');

  return html.replace(/<\/head>/, `${headPartials}$&`);
};

Step 4 (recommended)

Setting up Tailwind CSS with the Porsche Design System Tailwind CSS Theme allows you to use a utility-first CSS framework that guarantees seamless styling consistency with Porsche's design principles.

The Key Advantage: Universal Code Sharing & Scalability

Using Tailwind CSS with the Porsche Design System Theme provides a powerful benefit: Your styles are truly framework-agnostic. Since Tailwind generates atomic utility classes, you eliminate cascading style issues, promoting long-term scalability and maintainability for large projects. The patterns and components you build are easily portable. You can copy and paste the same styling code between projects, teams, and different technology stacks (React, Angular, Vue, plain HTML, etc.), ensuring 100% visual uniformity across the organization. You can now use and customize the provided Patterns and Templates, which are all written in Tailwind CSS, to build applications quickly and efficiently.

Install Tailwind CSS within your project directory.

npm install tailwindcss @tailwindcss/postcss postcss

Create a .postcssrc.json file in your project root directory.

// .postcssrc.json

{
  "plugins": {
    "@tailwindcss/postcss": {}
  }
}

Import Tailwind CSS and the Porsche Design System Tailwind CSS Theme.

/* src/styles.css */

@import 'tailwindcss';
@import '@porsche-design-system/components-react/tailwindcss';

Step 5

Add a Porsche Design System component (e.g., <p-wordmark></p-wordmark>) with some Tailwind CSS styles. Then, run npm run start and verify that the component and styles display correctly.

// src/app/app.html

<div class="grid justify-items-center gap-fluid-md m-static-lg p-fluid-lg bg-surface rounded-lg">
  <p-wordmark></p-wordmark>
  <h1 class="prose-display-md">Porsche Design System</h1>
</div>
<div class="…">…</div>