Nice work Kyle and thank you for this article. May I suggest that your search implementation should not use `ng-show` instead it should grow the search area from `width:0` -> `width:100%` and use a <span flex/> to manage the spacing between the left and right toolbar buttons.

We would welcome you submitting a Pull-Request to enhance the GitHub Material-Start project with the above features. Please note that Material Start has two (2) branches of implementation: ES5 (master) and ES6 (with JSPM).

Thanks again,

Angular Material Team