Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!

Material-UI

2.2K
3.5K
+ 1
432
react-md

18
43
+ 1
0
Add tool

Material-UI vs react-md: What are the differences?

Developers describe Material-UI as "React components for faster and easier web development. Build your own design system, or start with Material Design". React components for faster and easier web development. Build your own design system, or start with Material Design. On the other hand, react-md is detailed as "Google's Material Design UI components built with accessibility in mind and React". React MD is Google's Material Design specifications implemented with Sass and React. The goal of the project is to create components that adhere to the Material Design specifications.

Material-UI can be classified as a tool in the "Front-End Frameworks" category, while react-md is grouped under "JavaScript Framework Components".

Material-UI and react-md are both open source tools. It seems that Material-UI with 48.6K GitHub stars and 11K forks on GitHub has more adoption than react-md with 2.02K GitHub stars and 297 GitHub forks.

Decisions about Material-UI and react-md

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

See more
Get Advice from developers at your company using StackShare Enterprise. Sign up for StackShare Enterprise.
Learn More
Pros of Material-UI
Pros of react-md
  • 137
    React
  • 82
    Material Design
  • 60
    Ui components
  • 29
    CSS framework
  • 23
    Component
  • 14
    Looks great
  • 12
    Good documentation
  • 12
    Responsive
  • 9
    LESS
  • 7
    Ui component
  • 7
    Open source
  • 6
    Flexible
  • 6
    Code examples
  • 5
    JSS
  • 3
    Angular
  • 3
    Very accessible
  • 3
    Fun
  • 3
    Supports old browsers out of the box
  • 2
    Interface
  • 2
    Designed for Server Side Rendering
  • 2
    # of components
  • 1
    Accessibility
  • 1
    Support for multiple styling systems
  • 1
    Css
  • 1
    Typescript support
  • 1
    Easy to work with
    Be the first to leave a pro

    Sign up to add or upvote prosMake informed product decisions

    Cons of Material-UI
    Cons of react-md
    • 33
      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
    • 5
      For editable table component need to use material-table
    • 0
      # of components
      Be the first to leave a con

      Sign up to add or upvote consMake informed product decisions

      - No public GitHub repository available -

      What is Material-UI?

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

      What is react-md?

      React MD is Google's Material Design specifications implemented with Sass and React. The goal of the project is to create components that adhere to the Material Design specifications.

      Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!

      What companies use Material-UI?
      What companies use react-md?
        No companies found
        See which teams inside your own company are using Material-UI or react-md.
        Sign up for StackShare EnterpriseLearn More

        Sign up to get full access to all the companiesMake informed product decisions

        What tools integrate with Material-UI?
        What tools integrate with react-md?

        Sign up to get full access to all the tool integrationsMake informed product decisions

        What are some alternatives to Material-UI and react-md?
        Kendo UI
        Fast, light, complete: 70+ jQuery-based UI widgets in one powerful toolset. AngularJS integration, Bootstrap support, mobile controls, offline data solution.
        Flat UI
        Flat UI is a beautiful theme for Bootstrap. We have redesigned many of its components to look flat in every pixel.
        Ant Design
        An enterprise-class UI design language and React-based implementation. Graceful UI components out of the box, base on React Component. A npm + webpack + babel + dora + dva development framework.
        Angular Material
        Sprint from Zero to App. Hit the ground running with comprehensive, modern UI components that work across the web, mobile and desktop. It allows to create material styled angular apps fast and easy.
        Bootstrap
        Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.
        See all alternatives