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Animate.css vs Materialize: What are the differences?
What is Animate.css ? A library of CSS animations. It is a bunch of cool, fun, and cross-browser animations for you to use in your projects. Great for emphasis, home pages, sliders, and general just-add-water-awesomeness.
What is Materialize? A modern responsive front-end framework based on Material Design. A CSS Framework based on material design.
Animate.css can be classified as a tool in the "CSS Pre-processors / Extensions" category, while Materialize is grouped under "Front-End Frameworks".
Some of the features offered by Animate.css are:
- Cross-browser animations
- Usage with Javascript
- Setting Delay and Speed
On the other hand, Materialize provides the following key features:
- Speeds up development
- User Experience Focused
- Easy to work with
Animate.css and Materialize are both open source tools. Animate.css with 61.2K GitHub stars and 13K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Materialize with 36.2K GitHub stars and 4.83K GitHub forks.
Pros of Animate.css
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
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Cons of Animate.css
Cons of Materialize
- Mobile errors7
- Poor Grid System6
- Unmaintained2
