Bootswatch vs Material Design Lite vs Material-UI

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Bootswatch

99
130
+ 1
3
Material Design Lite

689
393
+ 1
62
Material-UI

2.2K
3.6K
+ 1
441
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Pros of Bootswatch
Pros of Material Design Lite
Pros of Material-UI
  • 1
    Great customer support
  • 1
    Easy setup
  • 1
    Very good comunity
  • 23
    Material Design straight from the original creators
  • 11
    Based on bem philosophy
  • 9
    Nice animations
  • 7
    SCSS
  • 5
    Simple Material Design
  • 5
    Doesn't depend on JavaScript
  • 2
    Custom color palette generates CDN
  • 141
    React
  • 82
    Material Design
  • 60
    Ui components
  • 30
    CSS framework
  • 25
    Component
  • 14
    Looks great
  • 12
    Responsive
  • 12
    Good documentation
  • 9
    LESS
  • 8
    Ui component
  • 7
    Open source
  • 6
    Code examples
  • 6
    Flexible
  • 5
    JSS
  • 3
    Angular
  • 3
    Very accessible
  • 3
    Fun
  • 3
    Supports old browsers out of the box
  • 2
    Typescript support
  • 2
    # of components
  • 2
    Interface
  • 2
    Designed for Server Side Rendering
  • 1
    Support for multiple styling systems
  • 1
    Css
  • 1
    Easy to work with
  • 1
    Accessibility

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Cons of Bootswatch
Cons of Material Design Lite
Cons of Material-UI
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      • 35
        Hard to learn. Bad documentation
      • 28
        Hard to customize
      • 21
        Hard to understand Docs
      • 8
        Bad performance
      • 7
        Extra library needed for date/time pickers
      • 7
        For editable table component need to use material-table
      • 2
        Typescript Support
      • 1
        # of components

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      What is Bootswatch?

      Simply download a CSS file and replace the one in Bootstrap. No messing around with hex values.

      What is Material Design Lite?

      Material Design Lite (MDL) lets you add a Material Design look and feel to your static content websites. It doesn't rely on any JavaScript frameworks or libraries. Optimized for cross-device use, gracefully degrades in older browsers, and offers an experience that is accessible from the get-go.

      What is Material-UI?

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

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        What are some alternatives to Bootswatch, Material Design Lite, and Material-UI?
        Bootstrap
        Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.
        Bootstrap Studio
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        Pingendo
        Create quality HTML prototypes quickly, using popular open source tools like Bootstrap, LESS, Fontawesome and more.
        Bootstrap.build
        a web app to create custom Bootstrap themes and export them to a SASS variables file or a brand new Bootstrap build. Enjoy inline code editor, Sketch-like color picker, +/- buttons for unit variables, SASS variables typeahead and Google fonts integration. Open Source
        Solid design system
        It is a feature-complete design system, inspired by Google's Material Design and powered by Bootstrap 4. It features a ton of custom-styled components, handcrafted sections and beautiful ready-to-go example pages. It builds upon and extends Bootstrap with plugins such as a date & time picker, parallax, lightbox, carousels, tags, icons from Font Awesome, and more.
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