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Materialize vs Topcoat: 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, Topcoat is detailed as "CSS for clean and fast web apps". TopCoat is made up of base controls, platform specific styles, themes and a build script to stitch them all together.
Materialize and Topcoat can be categorized 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, Topcoat provides the following key features:
- Components Galore
- Themeable
- BEM Architecture
"Google material design" is the primary reason why developers consider Materialize over the competitors, whereas "Open source" was stated as the key factor in picking Topcoat.
Materialize and Topcoat are both open source tools. It seems that Materialize with 36.1K GitHub stars and 4.8K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Topcoat with 4.31K GitHub stars and 417 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 Topcoat
- Open source3
- Backed by Adobe3
- Pretty2
- Themeable2
- BEM Architecture1
- Lightweight1
- Fast1
- Clean1
- PSD included1
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Cons of Materialize
- Mobile errors7
- Poor Grid System6
- Unmaintained2