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Materialize vs Toolkit: What are the differences?
Developers describe Materialize as "A modern responsive front-end framework based on Material Design". A CSS Framework based on material design. On the other hand, Toolkit is detailed as "Extensible front-end HTML, CSS, and JavaScript user interface components for the responsive, mobile, and modern web". Toolkit makes use of the latest and greatest technology. This includes HTML5 for semantics, CSS3 for animations and styles, Sass for CSS pre-processing, Gulp for task and package management, and powerful new browser APIs for the JavaScript layer.
Materialize and Toolkit can be primarily classified as "Front-End Frameworks" tools.
Some of the features offered by Materialize are:
- Speeds up development
- User Experience Focused
- Easy to work with
On the other hand, Toolkit provides the following key features:
- Mobile First
- Responsive Design
- Semantic Markup
Materialize and Toolkit are both open source tools. It seems that Materialize with 36.1K GitHub stars and 4.8K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Toolkit with 1.11K GitHub stars and 121 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 Toolkit
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Cons of Materialize
- Mobile errors7
- Poor Grid System6
- Unmaintained2
