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Material-UI vs React Storybook: What are the differences?
Material-UI: 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; React Storybook: Develop and design React components without an app. You just load your UI components into the React Storybook and start developing them. This functionality allows you to develop UI components rapidly without worrying about the app. It will improve your team’s collaboration and feedback loop.
Material-UI and React Storybook are primarily classified as "Front-End Frameworks" and "MVC" tools respectively.
Material-UI and React Storybook are both open source tools. It seems that Material-UI with 48.1K GitHub stars and 10.7K forks on GitHub has more adoption than React Storybook with 38.9K GitHub stars and 3.19K GitHub forks.
DeveloperTown, Ratio, and Code Foundries are some of the popular companies that use Material-UI, whereas React Storybook is used by Huddle, Quizlet, and AppsFlyer. Material-UI has a broader approval, being mentioned in 67 company stacks & 77 developers stacks; compared to React Storybook, which is listed in 43 company stacks and 22 developer stacks.
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
- React132
- Material Design82
- Ui components57
- CSS framework28
- Component23
- Looks great14
- Good documentation10
- Responsive10
- LESS9
- Ui component7
- Open source7
- Code examples6
- Flexible5
- JSS4
- Angular3
- Very accessible3
- Fun3
- Supports old browsers out of the box3
- Interface2
- Designed for Server Side Rendering2
- Easy to work with1
- Css1
Pros of React Storybook
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Cons of Material-UI
- Hard to learn. Bad documentation31
- Hard to customize25
- Hard to understand Docs19
- Extra library needed for date/time pickers6
- Bad performance6
- For editable table component need to use material-table5
Cons of React Storybook
- Hard dependency to Babel loader4