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Foundation vs Material Design for Angular: What are the differences?
Foundation: The most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world. 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; Material Design for Angular: Material Design for AngularJS Apps. 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.
Foundation and Material Design for Angular can be categorized as "Front-End Frameworks" tools.
"Responsive grid" is the top reason why over 155 developers like Foundation, while over 104 developers mention "Ui components" as the leading cause for choosing Material Design for Angular.
Foundation and Material Design for Angular are both open source tools. Foundation with 28.2K GitHub stars and 5.77K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Material Design for Angular with 16.5K GitHub stars and 3.57K GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, Foundation has a broader approval, being mentioned in 653 company stacks & 77 developers stacks; compared to Material Design for Angular, which is listed in 286 company stacks and 381 developer stacks.
Pros of Foundation
- Responsive grid160
- Mobile first93
- Open source80
- Semantic75
- Customizable72
- Quick to prototype52
- Simple ui50
- Fast45
- Best practices44
- Easy setup39
- Neutral style6
- HTML, SCSS and JS6
- Accessibility support5
- Professional5
- Xy grid3
- Sass2
- Every new version is smaller, smarter & more efficient2
- Robust1
Pros of Material Design for Angular
- Ui components122
- Backed by google63
- Free51
- Backed by angular51
- Javascript47
- Open source34
- Responsiveness33
- Easy to learn30
- Quick to develop28
- Customizable20
- Powerful8
- Easy to start8
- Flexible6
- Themes5
- Flexbox Layouts4
- Great community3
- I like its design3
- Great extensions2
- Consistents1
- CDK1
- It's the best looking out of the box1
- Seamless integration with AngularJS but lack of docs1
- Progressive Web Apps - to learn0
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Cons of Foundation
- Requires jQuery5
- Awful site4
Cons of Material Design for Angular
- No practical examples4