What is `cdk` in Angular Material 2 components

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CDK is the short form of component dev kit. This signifies that these are general-purpose tools for building
components that are not coupled to Material Design

From the material2 changelog

  • Several components in core/, such as Overlay, have had their prefix changed to cdk- (short
    for “component dev kit”). This signifies that these are general-purpose tools for building
    components that are not coupled to Material Design.The old selectors are still
    available as deprecated but will be removed in the next release. The CSS classes have been changed.

For more info on how to use cdk components such as table, overlay, portal, portal host, e.t.c, you can find examples here:

  1. https://github.com/angular/material2/tree/master/src/demo-app
  2. https://medium.com/@caroso1222/a-first-look-into-the-angular-cdk-67e68807ed9b

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