Bootstrap vs Material Design vs Material Design for Angular

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Bootstrap

55.3K
13K
+ 1
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Material Design

593
884
+ 1
14
Material Design for Angular

11.5K
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+ 1
519
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Pros of Bootstrap
Pros of Material Design
Pros of Material Design for Angular
  • 1.6K
    Responsiveness
  • 1.2K
    UI components
  • 943
    Consistent
  • 779
    Great docs
  • 677
    Flexible
  • 472
    HTML, CSS, and JS framework
  • 411
    Open source
  • 375
    Widely used
  • 368
    Customizable
  • 242
    HTML framework
  • 77
    Easy setup
  • 77
    Mobile first
  • 77
    Popular
  • 58
    Great grid system
  • 52
    Great community
  • 38
    Future compatibility
  • 34
    Integration
  • 28
    Very powerful foundational front-end framework
  • 24
    Standard
  • 23
    Javascript plugins
  • 19
    Build faster prototypes
  • 18
    Preprocessors
  • 14
    Grids
  • 9
    Good for a person who hates CSS
  • 8
    Clean
  • 4
    Rapid development
  • 4
    Easy to setup and learn
  • 4
    Love it
  • 3
    Great and easy to use
  • 2
    Powerful grid system, Rapid development, Customization
  • 2
    Boostrap
  • 2
    Devin schumacher rules
  • 2
    Community
  • 2
    Provide angular wrapper
  • 2
    Great and easy
  • 2
    Great customer support
  • 2
    Popularity
  • 2
    Clean and quick frontend development
  • 2
    Great and easy to make a responsive website
  • 2
    Sprzedam opla
  • 2
    Easy to use
  • 1
    Not tied to jQuery
  • 1
    Responsive design
  • 1
    Love the classes?
  • 1
    Painless front end development
  • 1
    Design Agnostic
  • 1
    So clean and simple
  • 1
    Numerous components
  • 1
    Recognizable
  • 1
    Intuitive
  • 1
    Material-ui
  • 1
    Felxible, comfortable, user-friendly
  • 1
    Poop
  • 1
    Pre-Defined components
  • 1
    It's fast
  • 1
    Geo
  • 1
    The fame
  • 1
    Easy setup2
  • 5
    They really set a new bar in design
  • 4
    An intuitive design
  • 3
    Simply, And Beautiful
  • 2
    Many great libraries
  • 0
    Composants
  • 121
    Ui components
  • 62
    Backed by google
  • 51
    Free
  • 50
    Backed by angular
  • 47
    Javascript
  • 34
    Open source
  • 32
    Responsiveness
  • 30
    Easy to learn
  • 28
    Quick to develop
  • 20
    Customizable
  • 8
    Powerful
  • 8
    Easy to start
  • 6
    Flexible
  • 6
    Themes
  • 4
    Flexbox Layouts
  • 3
    Great community
  • 3
    I like its design
  • 2
    Great extensions
  • 1
    Consistents
  • 1
    CDK
  • 1
    It's the best looking out of the box
  • 1
    Seamless integration with AngularJS but lack of docs
  • 0
    Progressive Web Apps - to learn

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Cons of Bootstrap
Cons of Material Design
Cons of Material Design for Angular
  • 26
    Javascript is tied to jquery
  • 16
    Every site uses the defaults
  • 15
    Grid system break points aren't ideal
  • 14
    Too much heavy decoration in default look
  • 8
    Verbose styles
  • 1
    Super heavy
  • 2
    Sometimes, it can hang the browser
  • 4
    No practical examples

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What is Bootstrap?

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

What is Material Design?

Material Design is a unified system that combines theory, resources, and tools for crafting digital experiences.

What is 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.

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