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

Material Design for Angular: 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; Topcoat: CSS for clean and fast web apps. TopCoat is made up of base controls, platform specific styles, themes and a build script to stitch them all together.

Material Design for Angular and Topcoat 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 "Open source" was stated as the key factor in picking Topcoat.

Material Design for Angular and Topcoat are both open source tools. It seems that Material Design for Angular with 16.5K GitHub stars and 3.57K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Topcoat with 4.31K GitHub stars and 417 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Material Design for Angular
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    Ui components
  • 63
    Backed by google
  • 51
    Free
  • 51
    Backed by angular
  • 47
    Javascript
  • 34
    Open source
  • 33
    Responsiveness
  • 30
    Easy to learn
  • 28
    Quick to develop
  • 20
    Customizable
  • 8
    Powerful
  • 8
    Easy to start
  • 6
    Flexible
  • 5
    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
  • 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 Topcoat
  • 4
    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 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 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.
        JavaScript
        JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
        Python
        Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
        Node.js
        Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
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