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Material-UI vs React Rainbow: What are the differences?
What is Material-UI? React components for faster and easier web development. It is a comprehensive guide for visual, motion, and interaction design across platforms and devices.
What is React Rainbow? Collection of components that will reliably help you build your application in a snap. It is a collection of components that will reliably help you build your application in a snap. More than 60 components built on top of React.
Material-UI and React Rainbow belong to "UI Components" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Material-UI are:
- Tables
- Forms
- Snackbars
On the other hand, React Rainbow provides the following key features:
- Interactive Examples
- First class testing
- Wdio page objects
Material-UI and React Rainbow are both open source tools. Material-UI with 50.9K GitHub stars and 12.2K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than React Rainbow with 797 GitHub stars and 34 GitHub forks.
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
Pros of Material-UI
- React141
- Material Design82
- Ui components60
- CSS framework30
- Component26
- Looks great15
- Responsive13
- Good documentation12
- LESS9
- Ui component8
- Open source7
- Flexible6
- Code examples6
- JSS5
- Supports old browsers out of the box3
- Interface3
- Angular3
- Very accessible3
- Fun3
- Typescript support2
- # of components2
- Designed for Server Side Rendering2
- Support for multiple styling systems1
- Accessibility1
- Easy to work with1
- Css1
Pros of React Rainbow
- It is easy to use3
- Open Source3
- Easy to integrate3
- Interactive Examples3
- Looks great3
- React3
- 60+ UI Components3
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Cons of Material-UI
- Hard to learn. Bad documentation36
- Hard to customize29
- Hard to understand Docs22
- Bad performance9
- Extra library needed for date/time pickers7
- For editable table component need to use material-table7
- Typescript Support2
- # of components1