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

What is Material Design for Bootstrap? 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.

What is 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 Bootstrap and Topcoat belong to "Front-End Frameworks" category of the tech stack.

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, Topcoat provides the following key features:

  • Components Galore
  • Themeable
  • BEM Architecture

"Bootstrap" is the top reason why over 14 developers like Material Design for Bootstrap, while over 2 developers mention "Open source" as the leading cause for choosing Topcoat.

Material Design for Bootstrap and Topcoat 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 Topcoat with 4.31K GitHub stars and 417 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Material Design for Bootstrap
Pros of Topcoat
  • 16
    Bootstrap
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    Light weight
  • 6
    Awesome and simple to use
  • 4
    Modern Looks
  • 4
    Google Material Design
  • 4
    Responsive
  • 3
    Open Source
  • 3
    Great angular compatibility
  • 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 Bootstrap
Cons of Topcoat
  • 2
    Not free for premo stuff
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    What is 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.

    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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