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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.
Pros of Material Design for Angular
- Ui components122
- Backed by google63
- Free51
- Backed by angular51
- Javascript47
- Open source34
- Responsiveness33
- Easy to learn30
- Quick to develop28
- Customizable20
- Powerful8
- Easy to start8
- Flexible6
- Themes5
- Flexbox Layouts4
- Great community3
- I like its design3
- Great extensions2
- Consistents1
- CDK1
- It's the best looking out of the box1
- Seamless integration with AngularJS but lack of docs1
- Progressive Web Apps - to learn0
Pros of Topcoat
- Open source3
- Backed by Adobe3
- Pretty2
- Themeable2
- BEM Architecture1
- Lightweight1
- Fast1
- Clean1
- PSD included1
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Cons of Material Design for Angular
- No practical examples4