Bootstrap vs. Materialize
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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. |
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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.
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What is Materialize?A CSS Framework based on material design.
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Want advice about which of these to choose?Ask the StackShare community! |
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Why do developers choose Bootstrap vs Materialize?
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What companies use Bootstrap?
8393 companies on StackShare use Bootstrap
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What companies use Materialize?
57 companies on StackShare use Materialize
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What tools integrate with Bootstrap?
17 tools on StackShare integrate with Bootstrap
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No integrations listed yet
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What are some alternatives to Bootstrap and Materialize?
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Bootstrap 3.4.1 and 4.3.1
February 12, 2019
Bootstrap 4.3.0
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Bootstrap 4.2.1
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ReactQL is a React + GraphQL front-end starter kit. #JSX is a natural way to think about building UI, and it renders to pure #HTML in the browser and on the server, making it trivial to build server-rendered Single Page Apps. GraphQL via Apollo was chosen for the data layer; #GraphQL makes it simple to request just the data your app needs, and #Apollo takes care of communicating with your API (written in any language; doesn't have to be JavaScript!), caching, and rendering to #React.
ReactQL is written in TypeScript to provide full types/Intellisense, and pick up hard-to-diagnose goofs that might later show up at runtime. React makes heavy use of Webpack 4 to handle transforming your code to an optimised client-side bundle, and in throws back just enough code needed for the initial render, while seamlessly handling import statements asynchronously as needed, making the payload your user downloads ultimately much smaller than trying to do it by hand.
React Helmet was chosen to handle <head> content, because it works universally, making it easy to throw back the correct <title> and other tags on the initial render, as well as inject new tags for subsequent client-side views.
styled-components, Sass, Less and PostCSS were added to give developers a choice of whether to build styles purely in React / JavaScript, or whether to defer to a #css #preprocessor. This is especially useful for interop with UI frameworks like Bootstrap, Semantic UI, Foundation, etc - ReactQL lets you mix and match #css and renders to both a static .css file during bundling as well as generates per-page <style> tags when using #StyledComponents.
React Router handles routing, because it works both on the server and in the client. ReactQL customises it further by capturing non-200 responses on the server, redirecting or throwing back custom 404 pages as needed.
Koa is the web server that handles all incoming HTTP requests, because it's fast (TTFB < 5ms, even after fully rendering React), and its natively #async, making it easy to async/await inside routes and middleware.
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Interest Over Time
Reviews of Bootstrap and Materialize
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ConsoleTVsMaterialize Review
January 05, 2015 09:30
I've been using materialize and I'm really happy with it, in some months I'm sure it will become one of the best front-end frameworks around the internet, because it's easy and fast to use and to get started with it.
It also got a nice community of developers that help developing it and finding bugs, as well a translation team, looking to get materialize into the major countries.
My final review is that is one of the best front-end frameworks I've ever found and get used really fast and it's one of the most comfortable frameworks to use as well.
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grigbPretty, but limited (v1.0.0-alpha.3)
February 13, 2018 12:36
As I've been applying Materialize, I've discovered some limitations.
For example, the tabs require ids for the content divs. This makes is difficult to create content dynamically.
The documentation is not accurate.
To use materializecss, you will need to review the source code often.
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grigb
Pretty, but limited (v1.0.0-alpha.3)
February 13, 2018 14:56
As I've been applying Materialize, I've discovered some limitations.
The Glitter page: https://gitter.im/Dogfalo/materialize provided excellent support though. Kudos!
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MathieuMorrissetteAwesome
June 30, 2015 17:21
It is very easy to use. Very good community and documentation :P. Keep up the good work.
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longgge我们团队一直在使用bootstrap，非常简单易用，并且有帮助。支持也很到位，很喜欢！用了4年的时间，会持续的用下去，加油！！Bootstrap!!!
April 26, 2016 04:28
我们团队一直在使用bootstrap，非常简单易用，并且有帮助。支持也很到位，很喜欢！用了4年的时间，会持续的用下去，加油！！Bootstrap!!!
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tomasSolid, compares well against semantic ui
October 14, 2016 18:12
We have been using it for the past 3 years and have no complaints
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ricardogusiCheap and Good
July 18, 2017 06:34
Good service with a good price, worth the money.
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How developers use Bootstrap vs Materialize
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StackShare uses Bootstrap
Leanstack was on Bootstrap 2. Chose this because it is wildly popular, so it’s active, has been used a lot in production, and has a ton of features. Anything you need to do from a UI perspective, there’s likely a plugin for it already part of the library. Haven’t tried the others, but we're happy with BS.
For StackShare, we upgraded to Bootstrap 3. I don’t like that they changed the name of columns, essentially breaking the grid layout for Bootstrap 2 and below, so that was a real pain to update. I hope they don’t do that again. Once we have more bandwidth, we’re totally going to decouple our markup from Bootstrap.
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shridhardalavi uses Bootstrap
Bootstrap is a framework to help you design websites faster and easier. It includes HTML and CSS based design templates for typography, forms, buttons, tables, navigation, modals, image carousels, etc. It also gives you support for JavaScript plugins. Bootstrap's responsive CSS adjusts to phones, tablets, and desktops Bootstrap is compatible with all modern browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, and Opera)
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CloudRepo uses Bootstrap
We started with a bootstrap based template and then completely rewrote it due to poor design of the template. Using boostrap properly was a great experience - once you learn it and use it properly, it's simple to use and very good at being responsive and adapting to the various screen view.
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Perljobs.Ru uses Bootstrap
I simply bought a "job board" template for the website, which is written using Bootstrap 2. I'm hoping to upgrade the site to Boostrap 3 when I'll have a time.
Я просто купил шаблон для доски вакансий, написанный на Boostrap 2. Когда будет время перепишу все на Bootstrap 3.
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ujjwalbhujel uses Bootstrap
With the advancement in CSS, Bootstrap is creating new milestones when it comes to minimising our CSS codes. So elegant and beautiful yet easy and convenient to use once you go through all the classes and its elements. In addition, its JS function is impressive too.
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