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Foundation vs Material Design for Bootstrap: 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 Bootstrap: Material Design for Bootstrap. This Bootstrap theme is an easy way to use the new Material Design guidelines by Google in your Bootstrap 3 based application. Just include the theme right after the Bootstrap CSS and include the javascript at the end of your document, everything will be converted to Material Design (paper) style.

Foundation and Material Design for Bootstrap can be categorized as "Front-End Frameworks" tools.

Some of the features offered by Foundation are:

  • Semantic: Everything is semantic. You can have the cleanest markup without sacrificing the utility and speed of Foundation.
  • Mobile First: You can build for small devices first. Then, as devices get larger and larger, layer in more complexity for a complete responsive design.
  • Customizable: You can customize your build to include or remove certain elements, as well as define the size of columns, colors, font size and more.

On the other hand, Material Design for Bootstrap provides the following key features:

  • Input fields (text, numeric, email, etc)
  • Textarea
  • Buttons (ripple effect working)

"Responsive grid" is the primary reason why developers consider Foundation over the competitors, whereas "Bootstrap" was stated as the key factor in picking Material Design for Bootstrap.

Foundation and Material Design for Bootstrap are both open source tools. It seems that Foundation with 28.2K GitHub stars and 5.77K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Material Design for Bootstrap with 19.9K GitHub stars and 3.31K GitHub forks.

HotelTonight, StatSheet, and Customer.io are some of the popular companies that use Foundation, whereas Material Design for Bootstrap is used by MXD3D, Itbid, and TypeLead. Foundation has a broader approval, being mentioned in 653 company stacks & 77 developers stacks; compared to Material Design for Bootstrap, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.

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Pros of Foundation
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    Responsive grid
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    Mobile first
  • 80
    Open source
  • 75
    Semantic
  • 72
    Customizable
  • 52
    Quick to prototype
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    Simple ui
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    Fast
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    Best practices
  • 39
    Easy setup
  • 6
    Neutral style
  • 6
    HTML, SCSS and JS
  • 5
    Accessibility support
  • 5
    Professional
  • 3
    Xy grid
  • 2
    Sass
  • 2
    Every new version is smaller, smarter & more efficient
  • 1
    Robust
  • 16
    Bootstrap
  • 6
    Light weight
  • 6
    Awesome and simple to use
  • 4
    Modern Looks
  • 4
    Google Material Design
  • 4
    Responsive
  • 3
    Open Source
  • 3
    Great angular compatibility

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Cons of Foundation
Cons of Material Design for Bootstrap
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    Requires jQuery
  • 4
    Awful site
  • 2
    Not free for premo stuff

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What is 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.

What is Material Design for Bootstrap?

It is an open source toolkit based on Bootstrap for developing Material Design apps with HTML, CSS, and JS. Quickly prototype your ideas or build your entire app with our Sass variables and mixins, responsive grid system, extensive prebuilt components, and powerful plugins built on jQuery.

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