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Ionicons vs Material-UI: What are the differences?

What is Ionicons? Beautifully crafted open source icons. Premium designed icons for use in web, iOS, Android, and desktop apps. Support for SVG and web font. Completely open source and MIT licensed.

What is Material-UI? React components for faster and easier web development. It is a comprehensive guide for visual, motion, and interaction design across platforms and devices.

Ionicons and Material-UI can be categorized as "UI Components" tools.

Some of the features offered by Ionicons are:

  • Open-source icon set with 700+ icons
  • Crafted for web, iOS, Android, and desktop apps
  • Have both Material Design and iOS versions

On the other hand, Material-UI provides the following key features:

  • Tables
  • Forms
  • Snackbars

Ionicons and Material-UI are both open source tools. It seems that Material-UI with 50.5K GitHub stars and 12K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Ionicons with 13.9K GitHub stars and 1.6K GitHub forks.

Decisions about Ionicons and Material-UI
Abigail Watson
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Fonts and typography are fun. Material Design is a framework (developed by Google) that basically geeks out on how to assemble your typographical elements together into a design language. If you're into fonts and typography, it's fantastic. It provides a theming engine, reusable components, and can pull different user interfaces together under a common design paradigm. I'd highly recommend looking into Borries Schwesinger's book "The Form Book" if you're going to be working with Material UI or are otherwise new to component design.

https://www.amazon.com/Form-Book-Creating-Printed-Online/dp/0500515085

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Pros of Ionicons
Pros of Material-UI
  • 2
    Icons
  • 2
    Ui Components
  • 1
    Hospital
  • 1
    Looks Amazing
  • 137
    React
  • 82
    Material Design
  • 60
    Ui components
  • 29
    CSS framework
  • 23
    Component
  • 14
    Looks great
  • 12
    Good documentation
  • 12
    Responsive
  • 9
    LESS
  • 7
    Ui component
  • 7
    Open source
  • 6
    Flexible
  • 6
    Code examples
  • 5
    JSS
  • 3
    Angular
  • 3
    Very accessible
  • 3
    Fun
  • 3
    Supports old browsers out of the box
  • 2
    Interface
  • 2
    Designed for Server Side Rendering
  • 2
    # of components
  • 1
    Accessibility
  • 1
    Support for multiple styling systems
  • 1
    Css
  • 1
    Typescript support
  • 1
    Easy to work with

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Cons of Ionicons
Cons of Material-UI
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    • 33
      Hard to learn. Bad documentation
    • 27
      Hard to customize
    • 20
      Hard to understand Docs
    • 7
      Bad performance
    • 6
      Extra library needed for date/time pickers
    • 5
      For editable table component need to use material-table
    • 0
      # of components

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    What is Ionicons?

    Premium designed icons for use in web, iOS, Android, and desktop apps. Support for SVG and web font. Completely open source and MIT licensed.

    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 Ionicons and Material-UI?
    React
    Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.
    Font Awesome
    You can get vector icons and social logos on your website with it. It is a font that's made up of symbols, icons, or pictograms that you can use in a webpage, just like a font.
    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.
    Chakra UI
    It is a simple, modular and accessible component library that gives you all the building blocks you need to build your React applications.
    DevExtreme
    From Angular and React, to ASP.NET Core or Vue, it includes a comprehensive collection of high-performance and responsive UI widgets for use in traditional web and next-gen mobile applications. The suite ships with a feature-complete data grid, interactive charts widgets, data editors, and much more.
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