Semantic UI vs Material-UI vs Flat UI | What are the differences?

Overview

Semantic UI

Stacks954

Followers1.5K

Votes673

GitHub Stars51.2K

Forks4.9K

Material-UI

Stacks2.3K

Followers3.7K

Votes445

Flat UI

Stacks107

Followers143

Votes4

GitHub Stars15.2K

Forks2.3K

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Advice on Semantic UI, Material-UI, Flat UI

Kexin

Mar 4, 2021

Decided

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.

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Kwasi

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Feb 23, 2021

Review

You can choose between Angular Material or PrimeNG, if you have experience in integrating third party javascript libs you can use SemanticUI , Bootstrap or Foundation. All above UI Frameworks support side navigation with off page canavas implementation.

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Xinyi

Software Developer at DCSIL

Oct 9, 2020

Decided

As our team will be building a web application, HTML5 and CSS3 are one of the standardized combinations to implement the structure and the styling of a webpage. Material-UI comes with all sorts of predesigned web components such as buttons and dropdowns that will save us tons of development time. Since it is a component library designed for React, it suits our needs. However, we do acknowledge that predesigned components may sometimes cause pains especially when it comes to custom styling. To make our life even easier, we also adopted Tailwind CSS. It is a CSS framework providing low-level utility classes that will act as building blocks when we create custom designs.

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Detailed Comparison

Semantic UI	Material-UI	Flat UI
Semantic empowers designers and developers by creating a shared vocabulary for UI.	Material UI is a library of React UI components that implements Google's Material Design.	Flat UI is a beautiful theme for Bootstrap. We have redesigned many of its components to look flat in every pixel.
Build Responsive Layouts Easier;Self Explanatory;Tag ambivalent;Powerful tools for expressing groups and collections;Portable and self-contained	Tables; Forms; Snackbars; Buttons; Theming	Bootstrap-based;Retina Ready Images and Icons;Custom form components;Sleek CSS3 effects;Easy configurable color scheme
Statistics
GitHub Stars 51.2K	GitHub Stars -	GitHub Stars 15.2K
GitHub Forks 4.9K	GitHub Forks -	GitHub Forks 2.3K
Stacks 954	Stacks 2.3K	Stacks 107
Followers 1.5K	Followers 3.7K	Followers 143
Votes 673	Votes 445	Votes 4
Pros & Cons
Pros 157 Easy to use and looks elegant 92 Variety of components 64 Themes 61 Has out-of-the-box widgets i would actually use 57 Semantic, duh Cons 5 Outdated build tool (gulp 3)) 3 HTML is not semantic (see list component) 3 Poor accessibility support 2 Javascript is tied to jquery	Pros 141 React 82 Material Design 60 Ui components 30 CSS framework 26 Component Cons 36 Hard to learn. Bad documentation 29 Hard to customize 22 Hard to understand Docs 9 Bad performance 7 Extra library needed for date/time pickers	Pros 1 Good for mockups and minimal UI design 1 Basic Flat design 1 CSS class naming conventions are similar to Bootstrap 1 Sass support Cons 1 Not for creative and modern UI design
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What are some alternatives to Semantic UI, Material-UI, Flat UI?

Bootstrap

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

Foundation

Foundation is the most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world. You can quickly prototype and build sites or apps that work on any kind of device with Foundation, which includes layout constructs (like a fully responsive grid), elements and best practices.

Materialize

A CSS Framework based on material design.

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.

Blazor

Blazor is a .NET web framework that runs in any browser. You author Blazor apps using C#/Razor and HTML.

Quasar Framework

Build responsive Single Page Apps, SSR Apps, PWAs, Hybrid Mobile Apps and Electron Apps, all using the same codebase!, powered with Vue.

Nuxt.js

Nuxt.js presets all the configuration needed to make your development of a Vue.js application enjoyable. You can use Nuxt.js for SSR, SPA, Static Generated, PWA and more.

UIkIt

UIkit gives you a comprehensive collection of HTML, CSS, and JS components which is simple to use, easy to customize and extendable.

Tailwind CSS

Tailwind is different from frameworks like Bootstrap, Foundation, or Bulma in that it's not a UI kit. It doesn't have a default theme, and there are no build-in UI components. It comes with a menu of predesigned widgets to build your site with, but doesn't impose design decisions that are difficult to undo.

Ant Design

An enterprise-class UI design language and React-based implementation. Graceful UI components out of the box, base on React Component. A npm + webpack + babel + dora + dva development framework.