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Material Design vs Material Design for Bootstrap

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Overview

Material Design for Bootstrap
Material Design for Bootstrap
Stacks78
Followers206
Votes46
GitHub Stars65
Forks42
Material Design
Material Design
Stacks594
Followers890
Votes14

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.

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Advice on Material Design for Bootstrap, Material Design

Ashish
Ashish

Sr. UI Associate at Daffodil Software

Dec 29, 2020

Needs adviceonBootstrapBootstrapMaterial DesignMaterial DesignTailwind CSSTailwind CSS

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?

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Raj
Raj

Jan 3, 2021

Review

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.

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Ryan
Ryan

Mar 11, 2021

Decided

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

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Detailed Comparison

Material Design for Bootstrap
Material Design for Bootstrap
Material Design
Material Design

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 is a unified system that combines theory, resources, and tools for crafting digital experiences.

Input fields; Textarea; Buttons (ripple effect working); Select; Navbar; Button groups; Input groups; Checkbox; Radio; Alerts; Progress bars; Jumbotron; Wells; Dialogs; Lists
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Statistics
GitHub Stars
65
GitHub Stars
-
GitHub Forks
42
GitHub Forks
-
Stacks
78
Stacks
594
Followers
206
Followers
890
Votes
46
Votes
14
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 16
    Bootstrap
  • 6
    Light weight
  • 6
    Awesome and simple to use
  • 4
    Google Material Design
  • 4
    Responsive
Cons
  • 2
    Not free for premo stuff
Pros
  • 5
    They really set a new bar in design
  • 4
    An intuitive design
  • 3
    Simply, And Beautiful
  • 2
    Many great libraries
  • 0
    Composants
Cons
  • 2
    Sometimes, it can hang the browser

What are some alternatives to Material Design for Bootstrap, Material Design?

Bootstrap

Bootstrap

Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.

Foundation

Foundation

Foundation is the most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world. You can quickly prototype and build sites or apps that work on any kind of device with Foundation, which includes layout constructs (like a fully responsive grid), elements and best practices.

Semantic UI

Semantic UI

Semantic empowers designers and developers by creating a shared vocabulary for UI.

Materialize

Materialize

A CSS Framework based on material design.

Material Design for Angular

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.

Material-UI

Material-UI

Material UI is a library of React UI components that implements Google's Material Design.

Blazor

Blazor

Blazor is a .NET web framework that runs in any browser. You author Blazor apps using C#/Razor and HTML.

Quasar Framework

Quasar Framework

Build responsive Single Page Apps, SSR Apps, PWAs, Hybrid Mobile Apps and Electron Apps, all using the same codebase!, powered with Vue.

Nuxt.js

Nuxt.js

Nuxt.js presets all the configuration needed to make your development of a Vue.js application enjoyable. You can use Nuxt.js for SSR, SPA, Static Generated, PWA and more.

UIkIt

UIkIt

UIkit gives you a comprehensive collection of HTML, CSS, and JS components which is simple to use, easy to customize and extendable.

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