Material Design for Bootstrap vs React Storybook

Material Design for Bootstrap vs React Storybook: What are the differences?

Developers describe Material Design for Bootstrap 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. On the other hand, React Storybook is detailed as "Develop and design React components without an app". You just load your UI components into the React Storybook and start developing them. This functionality allows you to develop UI components rapidly without worrying about the app. It will improve your team’s collaboration and feedback loop.

Material Design for Bootstrap can be classified as a tool in the "Front-End Frameworks" category, while React Storybook is grouped under "MVC Tools".

Some of the features offered by Material Design for Bootstrap are:

• Input fields (text, numeric, email, etc)
• Textarea
• Buttons (ripple effect working)

On the other hand, React Storybook provides the following key features:

• Isolated environment for your components (with the use of various iframe tactics).
• Hot module reloading (even for functional stateless components).
• Works with any app (whether it's Redux, Relay or Meteor).

Material Design for Bootstrap and React Storybook are both open source tools. It seems that React Storybook with 39.3K GitHub stars and 3.22K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Material Design for Bootstrap with 19.9K GitHub stars and 3.31K GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, React Storybook has a broader approval, being mentioned in 43 company stacks & 22 developers stacks; compared to Material Design for Bootstrap, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.