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Material UI vs Next.js: What are the differences?

Differences between Material UI and Next.js

  1. Server-side rendering capabilities: Next.js is a framework that supports server-side rendering out of the box, meaning that the initial HTML is generated on the server and sent to the client, providing better performance and SEO. On the other hand, Material UI is a UI component library that focuses on providing pre-built, styled components for web development, but it doesn't have built-in server-side rendering capabilities.

  2. Development approach: Material UI is primarily focused on providing a rich set of reusable React components that follow the Material Design guidelines. It allows developers to quickly scaffold a visually appealing UI. On the other hand, Next.js is a full-fledged framework that provides a structure for building complete web applications, handling routing, server-side rendering, and other aspects.

  3. Styling options: Material UI provides ready-to-use stylized components that follow the Material Design principles, enabling developers to achieve a consistent and visually appealing UI easily. It also offers styling options like inline styles and CSS-in-JS libraries. In contrast, Next.js doesn't focus specifically on styling and leaves it up to the developer to choose the styling approach they prefer, such as CSS modules or CSS libraries.

  4. Community and ecosystem: Material UI has a vibrant community and a large ecosystem of plugins and extensions that developers can leverage to enhance their projects. It offers comprehensive documentation and regular updates. On the other hand, Next.js also has a growing community, but it is more focused on the Next.js specific features and best practices.

  5. Learning curve: Material UI provides a set of pre-built components with ready-to-use styles, making it relatively easy to start developing a visually appealing UI, especially for developers already familiar with React. However, learning how to use Next.js requires understanding the framework's concepts and features, which can have a steeper learning curve.

  6. Use case: Material UI is primarily used for designing and developing user interfaces, providing a wide range of customizable components suitable for building modern web applications. Next.js, on the other hand, is a framework that is more suitable for developing complete web applications, including server-side rendering, routing, and other essential features. It provides a higher level of abstraction and a structure for building scalable and production-ready applications.

In summary, Material UI provides pre-built, styled components for user interface design, whereas Next.js is a framework that focuses on providing a complete structure for building web applications, including server-side rendering capabilities. Material UI is more focused on UI design, while Next.js provides a comprehensive framework for web development.

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Hi, I start building an admin dashboard with next.js and looking for a frontend framework ( components ready ). So I end up with Ant Design and Material-UI, but I never built a project with these two.

Here is a list of my requirements.

  1. Good documentation.
  2. easy CRUD ( date picker and date range picker bundled )
  3. built-in multi-lang feature or Great 3rd library support
  4. Admin dashboard template
  5. well code maintenance

Which is better for the long run?

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I'm using both of them. But If you want to create admin dashboard, You should try AntDesign. They (Alibaba / Taobao) created a group of UI libaries to create admin dashboard. It's production ready. https://procomponents.ant.design/en-US/components/table https://pro.ant.design/docs/layout In my opinion, If you want to create a dashboard with mobile first / simple dashboard, you can choice material ui. otherwise, antdesign is better (if you want focus on desktop /tablet ui). Some of skeleton has built with material ui such as react-admin is good point to start. But if you want to create admin site with antdesign, I think you should build with umijs (it is alternative and compatible with nextjs and antd support directlly)

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Irving Caamal
Mid Level Software Engineer at Fullstacklabs · | 2 upvotes · 112.7K views
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https://github.com/uber/baseweb I highly recommend you baseweb, it's easy and very customizable and also beautiful.

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Decisions about Material-UI and Next.js

We’re a new startup so we need to be able to deliver quick changes as we find our product market fit. We’ve also got to ensure that we’re moving money safely, and keeping perfect records. The technologies we’ve chosen mix mature but well maintained frameworks like Django, with modern web-first and api-first front ends like GraphQL, NextJS, and Chakra. We use a little Golang sparingly in our backend to ensure that when we interact with financial services, we do so with statically compiled, strongly typed, and strictly limited and reviewed code.

You can read all about it in our linked blog post.

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Xinyi Liu
Software Developer at BigClarity · | 6 upvotes · 334K views

As our team will be building a web application, HTML5 and CSS3 are one of the standardized combinations to implement the structure and the styling of a webpage. Material-UI comes with all sorts of predesigned web components such as buttons and dropdowns that will save us tons of development time. Since it is a component library designed for React, it suits our needs. However, we do acknowledge that predesigned components may sometimes cause pains especially when it comes to custom styling. To make our life even easier, we also adopted Tailwind CSS. It is a CSS framework providing low-level utility classes that will act as building blocks when we create custom designs.

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Lucas Litton
Founder & CEO at Macombey · | 13 upvotes · 538.5K views

Next.js is probably the most enjoyable React framework our team could have picked. The development is an extremely smooth process, the file structure is beautiful and organized, and the speed is no joke. Our work with Next.js comes out much faster than if it was built on pure React or frameworks alike. We were previously developing all of our projects in Meteor before making the switch. We left Meteor due to the slow compiler and website speed. We deploy all of our Next.js projects on Vercel.

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Hey guys,

My backend set up is Prisma / GraphQL-Yoga at the moment, and I love it. It's so intuitive to learn and is really neat on the frontend too, however, there were a few gotchas when I was learning! Especially around understanding how it all pieces together (the stack). There isn't a great deal of information out there on exactly how to put into production my set up, which is a backend set up on a Digital Ocean droplet with Prisma/GraphQL Yoga in a Docker Container using Next & Apollo Client on the frontend somewhere else. It's such a niche subject, so I bet only a few hundred people have got a website with this stack in production. Anyway, I wrote a blog post to help those who might need help understanding it. Here it is, hope it helps!

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Fonts and typography are fun. Material Design is a framework (developed by Google) that basically geeks out on how to assemble your typographical elements together into a design language. If you're into fonts and typography, it's fantastic. It provides a theming engine, reusable components, and can pull different user interfaces together under a common design paradigm. I'd highly recommend looking into Borries Schwesinger's book "The Form Book" if you're going to be working with Material UI or are otherwise new to component design.

https://www.amazon.com/Form-Book-Creating-Printed-Online/dp/0500515085

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Pros of Material-UI
Pros of Next.js
  • 141
    React
  • 82
    Material Design
  • 60
    Ui components
  • 30
    CSS framework
  • 25
    Component
  • 14
    Looks great
  • 12
    Responsive
  • 12
    Good documentation
  • 9
    LESS
  • 8
    Ui component
  • 7
    Open source
  • 6
    Code examples
  • 6
    Flexible
  • 5
    JSS
  • 3
    Angular
  • 3
    Very accessible
  • 3
    Fun
  • 3
    Supports old browsers out of the box
  • 2
    Typescript support
  • 2
    # of components
  • 2
    Interface
  • 2
    Designed for Server Side Rendering
  • 1
    Support for multiple styling systems
  • 1
    Css
  • 1
    Easy to work with
  • 1
    Accessibility
  • 49
    Automatic server rendering and code splitting
  • 43
    Built with React
  • 33
    Easy setup
  • 26
    TypeScript
  • 24
    Universal JavaScript
  • 22
    Zero setup
  • 21
    Static site generator
  • 12
    Simple deployment
  • 12
    Just JavaScript
  • 12
    Incremental static regeneration
  • 10
    Filesystem as an API
  • 10
    Frictionless development
  • 9
    Everything is a function
  • 9
    Well Documented
  • 8
    Has many examples and integrations
  • 8
    Testing
  • 7
    Isomorphic React applications
  • 4
    File based routing + hooks built in
  • 2
    Deployment
  • 1
    SEO

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Cons of Material-UI
Cons of Next.js
  • 34
    Hard to learn. Bad documentation
  • 27
    Hard to customize
  • 20
    Hard to understand Docs
  • 7
    Bad performance
  • 6
    Extra library needed for date/time pickers
  • 6
    For editable table component need to use material-table
  • 1
    Typescript Support
  • 0
    # of components
  • 9
    Structure is weak compared to Angular(2+)

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What is Material-UI?

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

What is Next.js?

Next.js is a minimalistic framework for server-rendered React applications.

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