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Angular Universal vs Material-UI

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Overview

Material-UI
Material-UI
Stacks2.7K
Followers3.7K
Votes445
Angular Universal
Angular Universal
Stacks329
Followers413
Votes36
GitHub Stars99.2K
Forks26.7K

Angular Universal vs Material-UI: What are the differences?

Angular Universal: A technology that renders Angular applications on the server. It executes on the server, generating static application pages that later get bootstrapped on the client. This means that the application generally renders more quickly, giving users a chance to view the application layout before it becomes fully interactive; Material-UI: React components for faster and easier web development. Build your own design system, or start with Material Design. React components for faster and easier web development. Build your own design system, or start with Material Design.

Angular Universal can be classified as a tool in the "JavaScript Framework Components" category, while Material-UI is grouped under "Front-End Frameworks".

Angular Universal and Material-UI are both open source tools. Angular Universal with 50.1K GitHub stars and 13.9K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Material-UI with 49.4K GitHub stars and 11.4K GitHub forks.

Ratio, Chattermill, and Code Foundries are some of the popular companies that use Material-UI, whereas Angular Universal is used by Garlic Tech Ltd, Simian, and IVALO. Material-UI has a broader approval, being mentioned in 95 company stacks & 393 developers stacks; compared to Angular Universal, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 10 developer stacks.

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Advice on Material-UI, Angular Universal

Abigail
Abigail

Dec 10, 2019

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Fonts and typography are fun. Material Design is a framework (developed by Google) that basically geeks out on how to assemble your typographical elements together into a design language. If you're into fonts and typography, it's fantastic. It provides a theming engine, reusable components, and can pull different user interfaces together under a common design paradigm. I'd highly recommend looking into Borries Schwesinger's book "The Form Book" if you're going to be working with Material UI or are otherwise new to component design.

https://www.amazon.com/Form-Book-Creating-Printed-Online/dp/0500515085

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Detailed Comparison

Material-UI
Material-UI
Angular Universal
Angular Universal

Material UI is a library of React UI components that implements Google's Material Design.

It executes on the server, generating static application pages that later get bootstrapped on the client. This means that the application generally renders more quickly, giving users a chance to view the application layout before it becomes fully interactive.

Tables; Forms; Snackbars; Buttons; Theming
server-side rendering using the Angular CLI; renders more quickly
Statistics
GitHub Stars
-
GitHub Stars
99.2K
GitHub Forks
-
GitHub Forks
26.7K
Stacks
2.7K
Stacks
329
Followers
3.7K
Followers
413
Votes
445
Votes
36
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 141
    React
  • 82
    Material Design
  • 60
    Ui components
  • 30
    CSS framework
  • 26
    Component
Cons
  • 36
    Hard to learn. Bad documentation
  • 29
    Hard to customize
  • 22
    Hard to understand Docs
  • 9
    Bad performance
  • 7
    For editable table component need to use material-table
Pros
  • 7
    Typescript
  • 5
    Complete Framework
  • 5
    Server rendering and code splitting
  • 4
    Static site generator
  • 4
    Dynamic rendering
Integrations
React
React
Emotion
Emotion
Next.js
Next.js
styled-components
styled-components
Node.js
Node.js
.NET Core
.NET Core
PHP
PHP

What are some alternatives to Material-UI, Angular Universal?

Bootstrap

Bootstrap

Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.

Foundation

Foundation

Foundation is the most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world. You can quickly prototype and build sites or apps that work on any kind of device with Foundation, which includes layout constructs (like a fully responsive grid), elements and best practices.

Semantic UI

Semantic UI

Semantic empowers designers and developers by creating a shared vocabulary for UI.

Materialize

Materialize

A CSS Framework based on material design.

Material Design for Angular

Material Design for Angular

Material Design is a specification for a unified system of visual, motion, and interaction design that adapts across different devices. Our goal is to deliver a lean, lightweight set of AngularJS-native UI elements that implement the material design system for use in Angular SPAs.

Blazor

Blazor

Blazor is a .NET web framework that runs in any browser. You author Blazor apps using C#/Razor and HTML.

Quasar Framework

Quasar Framework

Build responsive Single Page Apps, SSR Apps, PWAs, Hybrid Mobile Apps and Electron Apps, all using the same codebase!, powered with Vue.

Nuxt.js

Nuxt.js

Nuxt.js presets all the configuration needed to make your development of a Vue.js application enjoyable. You can use Nuxt.js for SSR, SPA, Static Generated, PWA and more.

UIkIt

UIkIt

UIkit gives you a comprehensive collection of HTML, CSS, and JS components which is simple to use, easy to customize and extendable.

Tailwind CSS

Tailwind CSS

Tailwind is different from frameworks like Bootstrap, Foundation, or Bulma in that it's not a UI kit. It doesn't have a default theme, and there are no build-in UI components. It comes with a menu of predesigned widgets to build your site with, but doesn't impose design decisions that are difficult to undo.

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