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Marionette vs Material Design for Bootstrap

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Overview

Material Design for Bootstrap
Material Design for Bootstrap
Stacks78
Followers206
Votes46
GitHub Stars65
Forks42
Marionette
Marionette
Stacks169
Followers128
Votes80
GitHub Stars7.1K
Forks1.2K

Marionette vs Material Design for Bootstrap: What are the differences?

Developers describe Marionette as "Make your Backbone applications dance". Marionette brings an application architecture to Backbone, along with built in view management and memory management. Backbone.Marionette is a composite application library for Backbone.js that aims to simplify the construction of large scale JavaScript applications. It is a collection of common design and implementation patterns found in applications. On the other hand, Material Design for Bootstrap is detailed as "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.

Marionette and Material Design for Bootstrap are primarily classified as "Javascript MVC Frameworks" and "Front-End Frameworks" tools respectively.

"Uses Backbone" is the top reason why over 19 developers like Marionette, while over 14 developers mention "Bootstrap" as the leading cause for choosing Material Design for Bootstrap.

Marionette and Material Design for Bootstrap are both open source tools. Material Design for Bootstrap with 19.9K GitHub stars and 3.31K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Marionette with 7.15K GitHub stars and 1.35K GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Marionette has a broader approval, being mentioned in 35 company stacks & 9 developers stacks; compared to Material Design for Bootstrap, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Material Design for Bootstrap
Material Design for Bootstrap
Marionette
Marionette

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.

It is a JavaScript library with a RESTful JSON interface and is based on the Model–view–presenter application design paradigm. Backbone is known for being lightweight, as its only hard dependency is on one JavaScript library, Underscore.js, plus jQuery for use of the full library.

Input fields; Textarea; Buttons (ripple effect working); Select; Navbar; Button groups; Input groups; Checkbox; Radio; Alerts; Progress bars; Jumbotron; Wells; Dialogs; Lists
Layouts; Utilities; Behaviors; Radio; Objects
Statistics
GitHub Stars
65
GitHub Stars
7.1K
GitHub Forks
42
GitHub Forks
1.2K
Stacks
78
Stacks
169
Followers
206
Followers
128
Votes
46
Votes
80
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 16
    Bootstrap
  • 6
    Awesome and simple to use
  • 6
    Light weight
  • 4
    Google Material Design
  • 4
    Responsive
Cons
  • 2
    Not free for premo stuff
Pros
  • 20
    Uses Backbone
  • 20
    MVC compliant
  • 13
    Views management
  • 9
    View management
  • 7
    JavaScript
Integrations
No integrations available
Meteor
Meteor
JavaScript
JavaScript
Algolia
Algolia
Backbone.js
Backbone.js

What are some alternatives to Material Design for Bootstrap, Marionette?

Bootstrap

Bootstrap

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

AngularJS

AngularJS

AngularJS lets you write client-side web applications as if you had a smarter browser. It lets you use good old HTML (or HAML, Jade and friends!) as your template language and lets you extend HTML’s syntax to express your application’s components clearly and succinctly. It automatically synchronizes data from your UI (view) with your JavaScript objects (model) through 2-way data binding.

Vue.js

Vue.js

It is a library for building interactive web interfaces. It provides data-reactive components with a simple and flexible API.

Ember.js

Ember.js

A JavaScript framework that does all of the heavy lifting that you'd normally have to do by hand. There are tasks that are common to every web app; It does those things for you, so you can focus on building killer features and UI.

Foundation

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.

Backbone.js

Backbone.js

Backbone supplies structure to JavaScript-heavy applications by providing models key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing application over a RESTful JSON interface.

Semantic UI

Semantic UI

Semantic empowers designers and developers by creating a shared vocabulary for UI.

Materialize

Materialize

A CSS Framework based on material design.

Material Design for Angular

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.

Angular

Angular

It is a TypeScript-based open-source web application framework. It is a development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications.

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