Material Design for Angular vs Material Design Lite vs Topcoat

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Material Design for Angular

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Material Design Lite

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Topcoat

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Pros of Material Design for Angular
Pros of Material Design Lite
Pros of Topcoat
  • 121
    Ui components
  • 62
    Backed by google
  • 51
    Free
  • 50
    Backed by angular
  • 47
    Javascript
  • 34
    Open source
  • 32
    Responsiveness
  • 30
    Easy to learn
  • 28
    Quick to develop
  • 20
    Customizable
  • 8
    Powerful
  • 8
    Easy to start
  • 6
    Flexible
  • 6
    Themes
  • 4
    Flexbox Layouts
  • 3
    Great community
  • 3
    I like its design
  • 2
    Great extensions
  • 1
    Consistents
  • 1
    CDK
  • 1
    It's the best looking out of the box
  • 1
    Seamless integration with AngularJS but lack of docs
  • 0
    Progressive Web Apps - to learn
  • 23
    Material Design straight from the original creators
  • 11
    Based on bem philosophy
  • 9
    Nice animations
  • 7
    SCSS
  • 5
    Simple Material Design
  • 5
    Doesn't depend on JavaScript
  • 2
    Custom color palette generates CDN
  • 3
    Open source
  • 3
    Backed by Adobe
  • 2
    Pretty
  • 2
    Themeable
  • 1
    BEM Architecture
  • 1
    Lightweight
  • 1
    Fast
  • 1
    Clean
  • 1
    PSD included

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Cons of Material Design for Angular
Cons of Material Design Lite
Cons of Topcoat
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    No practical examples
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      What is 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.

      What is Material Design Lite?

      Material Design Lite (MDL) lets you add a Material Design look and feel to your static content websites. It doesn't rely on any JavaScript frameworks or libraries. Optimized for cross-device use, gracefully degrades in older browsers, and offers an experience that is accessible from the get-go.

      What is Topcoat?

      TopCoat is made up of base controls, platform specific styles, themes and a build script to stitch them all together.

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            What are some alternatives to Material Design for Angular, Material Design Lite, and Topcoat?
            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.
            Material Design
            Material Design is a unified system that combines theory, resources, and tools for crafting digital experiences.
            Bootstrap
            Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.
            Animate.css
            It is a bunch of cool, fun, and cross-browser animations for you to use in your projects. Great for emphasis, home pages, sliders, and general just-add-water-awesomeness.
            Tailwind CSS
            Tailwind is different from frameworks like Bootstrap, Foundation, or Bulma in that it's not a UI kit. It doesn't have a default theme, and there are no build-in UI components. It comes with a menu of predesigned widgets to build your site with, but doesn't impose design decisions that are difficult to undo.
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