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Materialize vs Water.css: What are the differences?
Developers describe Materialize as "A modern responsive front-end framework based on Material Design". A CSS Framework based on material design. On the other hand, Water.css is detailed as "A just-add-css collection of styles to make simple websites just a little nicer". A css framework that doesn't require any classes. You just include it in your
and forget about it, while it silently makes everything nicer.Materialize and Water.css belong to "Front-End Frameworks" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Materialize are:
- Speeds up development
- User Experience Focused
- Easy to work with
On the other hand, Water.css provides the following key features:
- Responsive
- Modern browser support
- Small size (< 2kb)
Materialize and Water.css are both open source tools. Materialize with 36.1K GitHub stars and 4.81K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Water.css with 4.09K GitHub stars and 157 GitHub forks.
Pros of Materialize
- Google material design102
- Easy to use74
- Responsive74
- Modern looks54
- Open source48
- Good documentation42
- Code examples37
- Extremely light - 29kb29
- Flexible28
- Great Support15
- It looks beautiful10
- Very nice looking components to quickly build out8
- Smooth animation7
- Great Grid System6
- Great4
- Ruby gem to integrate in 2 seconds flat4
- Angular2 Support3
- MIT Lisence2
- Friendly api, easy setup, good documentation2
- Easy setup2
- React1
- Grid system1
- Because of the easy to use and very editable library1
- Responsivness1
- Jibberish1
- Friendly Api1
- Better class name0
- Rtl support0
Pros of Water.css
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Cons of Materialize
- Mobile errors7
- Poor Grid System6
- Unmaintained2
