docs: add section for installation to readme (#2347)

* Adds a simple section for installation to the readme.
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Paul Gschwendtner
2016-12-22 18:08:00 +01:00
committed by Jeremy Elbourn
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@@ -10,22 +10,32 @@ This is the home for the Angular team's Material Design components built on top
[Contributing](https://github.com/angular/material2/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md),
[Plunker Template](http://plnkr.co/edit/o077B6uEiiIgkC0S06dd?p=preview)
### Getting started
### Installation
The latest release of Angular Material can be installed from npm
`npm install @angular/material`
Playing with the latest changes from [master](https://github.com/angular/material2/tree/master) is also possible
`npm install https://github.com/angular/material2-builds.git`
### Getting started
See our [Getting Started Guide](https://github.com/angular/material2/blob/master/GETTING_STARTED.md)
if you're building your first project with Angular Material 2.
### Project status
Angular Material 2 is currently in alpha and under active development.
Angular Material 2 is currently in alpha and under active development.
During alpha, breaking API and behavior changes will be occurring regularly.
Check out our [directory of design documents](https://github.com/angular/material2/wiki/Design-doc-directory)
Check out our [directory of design documents](https://github.com/angular/material2/wiki/Design-doc-directory)
for more insight into our process.
If you'd like to contribute, you must follow our [contributing guidelines](https://github.com/angular/material2/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md).
You can look through the issues (which should be up-to-date on who is working on which features
and which pieces are blocked) and make a comment.
Also see our [`Good for community contribution`](https://github.com/angular/material2/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22good+for+community+contribution%22)
If you'd like to contribute, you must follow our [contributing guidelines](https://github.com/angular/material2/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md).
You can look through the issues (which should be up-to-date on who is working on which features
and which pieces are blocked) and make a comment.
Also see our [`Good for community contribution`](https://github.com/angular/material2/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22good+for+community+contribution%22)
label.
High level items planned for December 2016:
@@ -36,7 +46,7 @@ High level items planned for December 2016:
* Continued expanding e2e test coverage
* Paginated tabs.
* Scroll / resize handling for overlays
* Production build
* Production build
* AoT compile e2e app
* Release beta.0
@@ -131,8 +141,8 @@ High level items planned for December 2016:
be missing some behaviors or polish.
## The goal of Angular Material
Our goal is to build a set of high-quality UI components built with Angular 2 and TypeScript,
following the Material Design spec. These
Our goal is to build a set of high-quality UI components built with Angular 2 and TypeScript,
following the Material Design spec. These
components will serve as an example of how to write Angular code following best practices.
### What do we mean by "high-quality"?
@@ -145,7 +155,7 @@ components will serve as an example of how to write Angular code following best
* Code is clean and well-documented to serve as an example for Angular devs.
## Browser and screen reader support
Angular Material supports the most recent two versions of all major browsers:
Angular Material supports the most recent two versions of all major browsers:
Chrome (including Android), Firefox, Safari (including iOS), and IE11 / Edge
We also aim for great user experience with the following screen readers: