Angular Material - Global color variables

Question

Looking at the Angular Material documentation, they recommend using a -theme file per component to manage applying any theme-related styles to a specific class.

Answer 1

I am working on a project where I used the Material 2 Themes and I used this approach where I use the class name and add colors class globally.

This is what I did :

FileName: mytheme-sidemenu.scss:

// Import all the tools needed to customize the theme and extract parts of it
@import "~@angular/material/theming";
// Define a mixin that accepts a theme and outputs the color styles for the component.
@mixin mytheme-sidemenu($theme) {
  // Extract whichever individual palettes you need from the theme.
  $primary: map-get($theme, primary);
  $accent: map-get(
    $theme,
    accent
  ); // Use mat-color to extract individual colors from a palette as necessary.

  .col-primary {
    color: mat-color($primary, 500) !important;
  }
  .col-accent {
    color: mat-color($accent, 300) !important;
  }
}

Here is my main theme file: mytheme-theme.scss:

@import '~@angular/material/theming';
@import './variables/helper.scss';
@import './variables/spacemanager.scss';
@import './mytheme-sidemenu.scss';

// Primary theme
@include mat-core();
$mytheme-app-primary: mat-palette($mat-light-blue, 700, 600);
$mytheme-app-accent: mat-palette($mat-pink, A200, 900, A100);
$mytheme-app-warn: mat-palette($mat-deep-orange);
$mytheme-app-theme: mat-light-theme($mytheme-app-primary, $mytheme-app-accent, $mytheme-app-warn);
@include angular-material-theme($mytheme-app-theme);
// Secondary Theme
.mytheme-alt-theme {
    $mytheme-alt-primary: mat-palette($mat-blue-grey, 500);
    $mytheme-alt-accent: mat-palette($mat-pink, 500);
    $mytheme-alt-warn: mat-palette($mat-deep-orange);
    $mytheme-alt-theme: mat-light-theme($mytheme-alt-primary, $mytheme-alt-accent, $mytheme-alt-warn);
    @include angular-material-theme($mytheme-alt-theme);
}
// Using the $theme variable from the pre-built theme you can call the theming function
@include mytheme-sidemenu($mytheme-app-theme);

and in app.module.ts update this :

export class AppModule {
  constructor(
    @Inject(OverlayContainer) private overlayContainer: OverlayContainer
  ) {
    this.overlayContainer
      .getContainerElement()
      .classList.add("mytheme-alt-theme"); // this for double theme add to the root css class
  }
}