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Foundation for Apps vs Materialize: What are the differences?

Foundation for Apps: Angular-powered framework for building powerful responsive web apps, from your friends at ZURB. Foundation for Apps is a framework you can use to build better, more polished single-page web applications that work across many devices. We’ve taken what we’ve learned from building the original Foundation framework to build an entirely new framework just for web apps; Materialize: A modern responsive front-end framework based on Material Design. A CSS Framework based on material design.

Foundation for Apps and Materialize can be primarily classified as "Front-End Frameworks" tools.

Some of the features offered by Foundation for Apps are:

  • Vertical Grid
  • Independent Scrolling Sections
  • Easier Source Ordering

On the other hand, Materialize provides the following key features:

  • Speeds up development
  • User Experience Focused
  • Easy to work with

Foundation for Apps and Materialize are both open source tools. It seems that Materialize with 36.1K GitHub stars and 4.8K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Foundation for Apps with 1.65K GitHub stars and 236 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Foundation for Apps
Pros of Materialize
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    • 102
      Google material design
    • 74
      Easy to use
    • 74
      Responsive
    • 54
      Modern looks
    • 48
      Open source
    • 42
      Good documentation
    • 37
      Code examples
    • 29
      Extremely light - 29kb
    • 28
      Flexible
    • 15
      Great Support
    • 10
      It looks beautiful
    • 8
      Very nice looking components to quickly build out
    • 7
      Smooth animation
    • 6
      Great Grid System
    • 4
      Great
    • 4
      Ruby gem to integrate in 2 seconds flat
    • 3
      Angular2 Support
    • 2
      MIT Lisence
    • 2
      Friendly api, easy setup, good documentation
    • 2
      Easy setup
    • 1
      React
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      Grid system
    • 1
      Because of the easy to use and very editable library
    • 1
      Responsivness
    • 1
      Jibberish
    • 1
      Friendly Api
    • 0
      Better class name
    • 0
      Rtl support

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    Cons of Foundation for Apps
    Cons of Materialize
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      • 7
        Mobile errors
      • 6
        Poor Grid System
      • 2
        Unmaintained

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      What is Foundation for Apps?

      Foundation for Apps is a framework you can use to build better, more polished single-page web applications that work across many devices. We’ve taken what we’ve learned from building the original Foundation framework to build an entirely new framework just for web apps.

      What is Materialize?

      A CSS Framework based on material design.

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