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Material UI vs Web Starter Kit: What are the differences?

  1. Component Library: Material UI is a React component library with a wide range of pre-built components like buttons, sliders, and navigation drawers, while Web Starter Kit is a boilerplate for building responsive websites, focusing on layout and design elements such as grids and typography.
  2. Styling Approach: Material UI uses JSS (JavaScript Style Sheets) for styling components, enabling dynamic styling based on props, while Web Starter Kit utilizes SASS (Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets) for its styling needs, providing a more traditional CSS preprocessor approach.
  3. Theming Customization: Material UI offers a comprehensive theming system that allows for easy customization of colors, typography, and more at a global level, compared to Web Starter Kit which requires manual theming adjustments for each individual component.
  4. Component Diversity: Material UI provides a rich set of components specifically designed for building web applications, including complex components like date pickers and data tables, whereas Web Starter Kit focuses more on foundational elements like grids and forms for general website development.
  5. Mobile Responsiveness: Material UI includes components and design patterns optimized for mobile responsiveness out of the box, making it easier to create mobile-friendly interfaces, while Web Starter Kit offers responsive design principles but may require additional customization for a seamless mobile experience.
  6. Community and Support: Material UI has a large, active community and ongoing support from the Material-UI team, ensuring timely updates and bug fixes, whereas Web Starter Kit, while maintained by Google, may have a smaller community and less frequent updates.

In Summary, Material UI and Web Starter Kit differ in their component libraries, styling approaches, theming customization, component diversity, mobile responsiveness, and community support.

Decisions about Material-UI and Web Starter Kit
Xinyi Liu
Software Developer at BigClarity · | 6 upvotes · 351.5K views
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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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Abigail Watson
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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 Web Starter Kit
  • 141
    React
  • 82
    Material Design
  • 60
    Ui components
  • 30
    CSS framework
  • 26
    Component
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    Looks great
  • 13
    Responsive
  • 12
    Good documentation
  • 9
    LESS
  • 8
    Ui component
  • 7
    Open source
  • 6
    Flexible
  • 6
    Code examples
  • 5
    JSS
  • 3
    Supports old browsers out of the box
  • 3
    Interface
  • 3
    Angular
  • 3
    Very accessible
  • 3
    Fun
  • 2
    Typescript support
  • 2
    # of components
  • 2
    Designed for Server Side Rendering
  • 1
    Support for multiple styling systems
  • 1
    Accessibility
  • 1
    Easy to work with
  • 1
    Css
  • 3
    Easy to use

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Cons of Material-UI
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    Hard to learn. Bad documentation
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    Hard to customize
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    Hard to understand Docs
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    Bad performance
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    Extra library needed for date/time pickers
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    For editable table component need to use material-table
  • 2
    Typescript Support
  • 1
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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 Web Starter Kit?

    Web Starter Kit is a starting point for multi-screen web development. It encompasses opinionated recommendations on boilerplate and tooling for building an experience that works great across multiple devices. We help you stay productive and aligned with the best practices outlined in Google's Web Fundamentals.

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    What are some alternatives to Material-UI and Web Starter Kit?
    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.
    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.
    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.
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