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

Developers describe Material Design for Angular as "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. 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.

Material Design for Angular and Material Design for Bootstrap can be primarily classified as "Front-End Frameworks" tools.

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

Material Design for Angular 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 Material Design for Angular with 16.5K GitHub stars and 3.57K GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Material Design for Angular has a broader approval, being mentioned in 286 company stacks & 381 developers stacks; compared to Material Design for Bootstrap, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.