Getting started guide unclear about dependency on @angular/animations

[fetis]

Bug, feature request, or proposal:

Bug

What is the expected behavior?

https://material.angular.io/guide/getting-started#step-2-animations
Getting started says that

If you don't want to add another dependency to your project, you can use the NoopAnimationsModule

So, I expect to don't install @angular/animations when I import this module

What is the current behavior?

Actually, @angular/platform-browser/animations uses the @angular/animations internally and it's not possible to compile a project without it.

Hence, the question what's the real difference between this to options?

At the moment it's not possible to use Material without animations module
Here's the stackblitz that illustrate the problem https://stackblitz.com/edit/angular-material-animations-problem

Which versions of Angular, Material, OS, TypeScript, browsers are affected?

Angular Material 6.4.1

[jelbourn]

Yeah, the getting-started guide isn't very clear. The @angular/animations package is always required, but the animations themselves can be disabled.

[fetis]

ok, I've opened a PR for it.

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