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Materialize vs Primer: What are the differences?

What is Materialize? A modern responsive front-end framework based on Material Design. A CSS Framework based on material design.

What is Primer? CSS toolkit and guidelines that power GitHub. Primer is the basecoat of GitHub, made by nerds just like you who share a passion for HTML and CSS.

Materialize and Primer can be primarily classified as "Front-End Frameworks" tools.

"Google material design" is the top reason why over 94 developers like Materialize, while over 3 developers mention "simple" as the leading cause for choosing Primer.

Materialize and Primer are both open source tools. Materialize with 36.1K GitHub stars and 4.8K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Primer with 8.42K GitHub stars and 621 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Materialize
Pros of Primer
  • 102
    Google material design
  • 74
    Easy to use
  • 74
    Responsive
  • 54
    Modern looks
  • 48
    Open source
  • 42
    Good documentation
  • 37
    Code examples
  • 29
    Extremely light - 29kb
  • 28
    Flexible
  • 15
    Great Support
  • 10
    It looks beautiful
  • 8
    Very nice looking components to quickly build out
  • 7
    Smooth animation
  • 6
    Great Grid System
  • 4
    Great
  • 4
    Ruby gem to integrate in 2 seconds flat
  • 3
    Angular2 Support
  • 2
    MIT Lisence
  • 2
    Friendly api, easy setup, good documentation
  • 2
    Easy setup
  • 1
    React
  • 1
    Grid system
  • 1
    Because of the easy to use and very editable library
  • 1
    Responsivness
  • 1
    Jibberish
  • 1
    Friendly Api
  • 0
    Better class name
  • 0
    Rtl support
  • 4
    simple
  • 2
    Pretty
  • 1
    Maintained by GitHub

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Cons of Materialize
Cons of Primer
  • 7
    Mobile errors
  • 6
    Poor Grid System
  • 2
    Unmaintained
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    What is Materialize?

    A CSS Framework based on material design.

    What is Primer?

    Primer is the basecoat of GitHub, made by nerds just like you who share a passion for HTML and CSS.

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