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Bootstrap vs Materialize: What are the differences?
Both Bootstrap and Materialize are Frontend Frameworks; Bootstrap is an HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework, while Materialize is a CSS framework based on Google's Material Design. The main difference is that Bootstrap gives you more freedom and control over UX elements; Materialize is more opinionated about how UX elements should behave and look, which is to be expected, since the purpose of Materialize is to help you conform your code to Material Design.
I replaced Bootstrap with Material-UI during the front-end UI development, because Material-UI adopts a component-based importing style, making it suit well in a "React programming style". This makes me comfortable when programming because I can treat importing UI components as other React components I define.
I do prefer to write things from scratch however when it came to wanting to jump-start the frontend, I found that it was taking me a lot longer hence why needing to use something very fast.
Bootstrap was the boom when it came out, I didn't like it, to be honest, set in its way and a pain to over-ride and in addition, you can tell from a distance if you're using boostrap and as everything looks the same.
I came across Tailwind CSS as I wanted more dynamic features, you could say, I've been now doing it for a few days and I love it a lot. I've been practising with the full stack part installed but I an't we wait until I do a new project, and I'll e able to select exactly what I want. Much faster.
I find the Tailwind provides a lot for flexibility in how we approach design for Mojinxo, while still giving me the benefits of a defined framework and centralised configuration. With tailwind we can create something that is very much Mojinxo and not just a carbon copy of every other site using Tailwind, which is what I find tends to be the case with Bootstrap and Bulma.
There is a tradeoff in familairity for users, especially with Bootstrap where users just 'know' how a site will work based on the card display, the common navigation look and feel and the slide-out burger menus.
The icing on the cake is definitely size. Tailwind is just so small, effective and easy to pick up.
Pros of Bootstrap
- Responsiveness1.6K
- UI components1.2K
- Consistent945
- Great docs776
- Flexible677
- HTML, CSS, and JS framework466
- Open source410
- Widely used375
- Customizable368
- HTML framework241
- Popular76
- Mobile first75
- Easy setup75
- Great grid system56
- Great community49
- Future compatibility38
- Integration34
- Very powerful foundational front-end framework27
- Standard24
- Javascript plugins23
- Build faster prototypes19
- Preprocessors18
- Grids13
- Clean8
- Good for a person who hates CSS7
- Easy to setup and learn4
- Rapid development4
- Love it4
- Popularity2
- Community2
- Great and easy to make a responsive website2
- Sprzedam opla2
- Powerful grid system, Rapid development, Customization2
- Clean and quick frontend development2
- Easy to use2
- Great customer support2
- The fame1
- Easy setup21
- Painless front end development1
- So clean and simple1
- Numerous components1
- Material-ui1
- Geo1
- Boostrap1
- Pre-Defined components1
- Great and easy1
- It's fast1
- Reactjs1
- Great and easy to use1
- Responsive design1
- Design Agnostic1
- Provide angular wrapper1
- Recognizable1
- Intuitive1
- Love the classes?1
- Felxible, comfortable, user-friendly1
- Frefsd0
Pros of Materialize
- Google material design102
- Easy to use74
- Responsive74
- Modern looks54
- Open source47
- 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 Bootstrap
- Javascript is tied to jquery23
- Every site uses the defaults14
- Too much heavy decoration in default look11
- Grid system break points aren't ideal11
- Verbose styles7
Cons of Materialize
- Poor Grid System6
- Mobile errors5
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Why do developers choose Bootstrap vs Materialize?
- Bootstrap is known for being responsive, consistent, and flexible. It’s widely used and well documented, and fans appreciate its responsiveness.
- Materialize is appreciated by fans of Google’s Material Design; it’s known for being responsive, easy to use, and well documented.