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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.
Pros of Materialize
- Google material design102
- Easy to use74
- Responsive74
- Modern looks54
- Open source48
- Good documentation42
- Code examples37
- Extremely light - 29kb29
- Flexible28
- Great Support15
- It looks beautiful10
- Very nice looking components to quickly build out8
- Smooth animation7
- Great Grid System6
- Great4
- Ruby gem to integrate in 2 seconds flat4
- Angular2 Support3
- MIT Lisence2
- Friendly api, easy setup, good documentation2
- Easy setup2
- React1
- Grid system1
- Because of the easy to use and very editable library1
- Responsivness1
- Jibberish1
- Friendly Api1
- Better class name0
- Rtl support0
Pros of Primer
- simple4
- Pretty2
- Maintained by GitHub1
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Cons of Materialize
- Mobile errors7
- Poor Grid System6
- Unmaintained2