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Material Design vs Material Design for Bootstrap: What are the differences?
What is Material Design? Google's Material Design. Material Design is a unified system that combines theory, resources, and tools for crafting digital experiences.
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.
Material Design and Material Design for Bootstrap can be primarily classified as "Front-End Frameworks" tools.
"They really set a new bar in design" is the top reason why over 2 developers like Material Design, while over 14 developers mention "Bootstrap" as the leading cause for choosing Material Design for Bootstrap.
Material Design for Bootstrap is an open source tool with 19.9K GitHub stars and 3.31K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Material Design for Bootstrap's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Material Design has a broader approval, being mentioned in 25 company stacks & 38 developers stacks; compared to Material Design for Bootstrap, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.
I am a bit confused when to choose Bootstrap vs Material Design or Tailwind CSS, and why? I mean, in which kind of projects we can work with bootstrap/Material/Tailwind CSS? If the design is made up on the grid, we prefer bootstrap, and if flat design, then material design. Similarly, when do we choose tailwind CSS?
Any suggestion would be appreciated?
Hi Ashish,
If you need minimal work to be done from your end and like most of the components / design available out of the box - go with Bootstrap. This is the oldest and has the widest adoption and a whole range of components built out by others.
If you like Material design, this is a good choice too. Please note that Bootstrap also has a Material theme, though it is not as native.
Both of these above frameworks are bulky and has more than what you may need.
If you like to build micro-components in a elegant way, TailwindCSS is the way to go.
I don't know about material design.
You would go with Bootstrap if you want to prototype / build something without bothering about the design at all and you are OK if everything looks kinda template-y, using bootstrap out of the box components.
Go with Tailwind if you need a sleek design, a user interface where building with components will be important (because tailwind strongly favors component-based UI), and you know you will need to extend the built-in classes with your own (because tailwind is very easy to extend)
I would personally recommend tailwind over bootstrap any day of the week.
Tailwind is great you don't have to mess with naming things and it is so much more flexible than the cookie cutter bootstrap, but I don't know about material UI. I recommend tailwind it's super simple to learn and has great code snippets.
Put simply, you should use Tailwind regardless. It is a great addition to whatever you use because it removes the hassle of writing CSS.
Ant Design offers the most components with JS and CSS taken care of. They look clean, professional, and usable.
We paired this with Bulma for making the containers and structure reactive. Bulma (for react) make it easy to just add a section, container, and content and have it work on all platforms.
We also use Geist UI, though not recognized by Stack share, for its simple and modern feel. Highly recommend Geist if you want modern components for complicated UI's
Pros of Material Design
- They really set a new bar in design5
- An intuitive design4
- Simply, And Beautiful3
- Many great libraries2
- Composants0
Pros of Material Design for Bootstrap
- Bootstrap16
- Light weight6
- Awesome and simple to use6
- Modern Looks4
- Google Material Design4
- Responsive4
- Open Source3
- Great angular compatibility3
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Cons of Material Design
- Sometimes, it can hang the browser2
Cons of Material Design for Bootstrap
- Not free for premo stuff2