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Alternatives to Material-UI

Kendo UI, Flat UI, Ant Design, react-md, and Angular Material are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Material-UI.
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What is Material-UI and what are its top alternatives?

Material UI is a library of React UI components that implements Google's Material Design.
Material-UI is a tool in the Front-End Frameworks category of a tech stack.
Material-UI is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Material-UI's open source repository on GitHub

Top Alternatives to Material-UI

  • Kendo UI
    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

    Flat UI is a beautiful theme for Bootstrap. We have redesigned many of its components to look flat in every pixel. ...

  • Ant Design
    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

    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
    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. ...

  • Bootstrap
    Bootstrap

    Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web. ...

  • Material Design
    Material Design

    Material Design is a unified system that combines theory, resources, and tools for crafting digital experiences. ...

  • Materialize
    Materialize

    A CSS Framework based on material design.

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Kendo UI

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Fast, light, complete: 70+ jQuery-based UI widgets in one powerful toolset
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PROS OF KENDO UI
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    Collection of controls
  • 5
    Speed
  • 4
    Multi-framework support
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    Mobile
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    AngularJS
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    Built-in router
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    Good Documentation
CONS OF KENDO UI
  • 4
    Massive footprint
  • 3
    Slow
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    Awdawd
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    Spotty Documentation
  • 1
    Expensive
  • 1
    Poor customizability

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We are transitioning to develop a web app, and we have selected to use React for our front end. I've looked at Kendo UI as a tool to help out. I am looking for some feedback on the Kendo UI tool and any others that are good. The desktop software that we are replacing has about 150 forms. The app is currently only going to be used inhouse and is connected to SQL server. Thanks in advance!

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Flat UI

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Free Bootstrap Framework and Theme
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PROS OF FLAT UI
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    Sass support
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    CSS class naming conventions are similar to Bootstrap
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    Good for mockups and minimal UI design
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    Basic Flat design
CONS OF FLAT UI
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    Not for creative and modern UI design

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Ant Design

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A set of high-quality React components
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PROS OF ANT DESIGN
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    Lots of components
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    Polished and enterprisey look and feel
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    TypeScript
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    Easy to integrate
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    Es6 support
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    Typescript support
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    Beautiful and solid
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    Beautifully Animated Components
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    Quick Release rhythm
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    Great documentation
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    Easy to customize Forms
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    Opensource and free of cost
CONS OF ANT DESIGN
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    Less
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    Large File Size
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    Poor accessibility support
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    Dangerous to use as a base in component libraries

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Sarmad Chaudhary
Founder & CEO at Ebiz Ltd. · | 9 upvotes · 1.3M views

Hi there!

I just want to have a simple poll/vote...

If you guys need a UI/Component Library for React, Vue.js, or AngularJS, which type of library would you prefer between:

1 ) A single maintained cross-framework library that is 100% compatible and can be integrated with any popular framework like Vue, React, Angular 2, Svelte, etc.

2) A native framework-specific library developed to work only on target framework like ElementUI for Vue, Ant Design for React.

Your advice would help a lot! Thanks in advance :)

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Hello, A question to frontend developers. I am a beginner on frontend.

I am building a UI for my company to replace old legacy one with React and this question is about choosing how to apply design to it.

I have Tailwind CSS on one hand and Ant Design on the other (I didnt like mui and Bootstrap doesn't seem to have enterprise components as ant) As far as I understand, tailwind is great. It allows me to literally build an application without touching the css but I have to build my own react components with it. Ant design or mantine has ready to use components which I can use and rapidly build my application.

My question is, is it the right approach to: - Use a component framework for now and replace legacy app. - Introduce tailwind later when I have a frontend resource in hand and then build own component library

Thank you.

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react-md

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Google's Material Design UI components built with accessibility in mind and React
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PROS OF REACT-MD
    Be the first to leave a pro
    CONS OF REACT-MD
      Be the first to leave a con

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      Angular Material

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      PROS OF ANGULAR MATERIAL
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        Components
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        Backed by a well known company
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        Simple
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        Easy
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        Very good documentation
      • 2
        Rte
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        Implements well known material design
      CONS OF ANGULAR MATERIAL
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        Fairly large
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        Look like 90s stuffs
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        Shit
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        Suck

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      Bootstrap logo

      Bootstrap

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      PROS OF BOOTSTRAP
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        Responsiveness
      • 1.2K
        UI components
      • 943
        Consistent
      • 779
        Great docs
      • 677
        Flexible
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        HTML, CSS, and JS framework
      • 411
        Open source
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        Widely used
      • 368
        Customizable
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        HTML framework
      • 77
        Easy setup
      • 77
        Mobile first
      • 77
        Popular
      • 58
        Great grid system
      • 52
        Great community
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        Future compatibility
      • 34
        Integration
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        Very powerful foundational front-end framework
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        Standard
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        Javascript plugins
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        Build faster prototypes
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        Preprocessors
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        Grids
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        Good for a person who hates CSS
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        Clean
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        Rapid development
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        Easy to setup and learn
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        Love it
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        Great and easy to use
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        Powerful grid system, Rapid development, Customization
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        Boostrap
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        Devin schumacher rules
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        Community
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        Provide angular wrapper
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        Great and easy
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        Great customer support
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        Popularity
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        Clean and quick frontend development
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        Great and easy to make a responsive website
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        Sprzedam opla
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        Easy to use
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        Not tied to jQuery
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        Responsive design
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        Love the classes?
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        Painless front end development
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        Design Agnostic
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        So clean and simple
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        Numerous components
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        Recognizable
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        Intuitive
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        Material-ui
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        Felxible, comfortable, user-friendly
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        Poop
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        Pre-Defined components
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        It's fast
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        Geo
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        The fame
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        Easy setup2
      CONS OF BOOTSTRAP
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        Javascript is tied to jquery
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        Every site uses the defaults
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        Grid system break points aren't ideal
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        Too much heavy decoration in default look
      • 8
        Verbose styles
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        Super heavy

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      Ganesa Vijayakumar
      Full Stack Coder | Technical Lead · | 19 upvotes · 4.5M views

      I'm planning to create a web application and also a mobile application to provide a very good shopping experience to the end customers. Shortly, my application will be aggregate the product details from difference sources and giving a clear picture to the user that when and where to buy that product with best in Quality and cost.

      I have planned to develop this in many milestones for adding N number of features and I have picked my first part to complete the core part (aggregate the product details from different sources).

      As per my work experience and knowledge, I have chosen the followings stacks to this mission.

      UI: I would like to develop this application using React, React Router and React Native since I'm a little bit familiar on this and also most importantly these will help on developing both web and mobile apps. In addition, I'm gonna use the stacks JavaScript, jQuery, jQuery UI, jQuery Mobile, Bootstrap wherever required.

      Service: I have planned to use Java as the main business layer language as I have 7+ years of experience on this I believe I can do better work using Java than other languages. In addition, I'm thinking to use the stacks Node.js.

      Database and ORM: I'm gonna pick MySQL as DB and Hibernate as ORM since I have a piece of good knowledge and also work experience on this combination.

      Search Engine: I need to deal with a large amount of product data and it's in-detailed info to provide enough details to end user at the same time I need to focus on the performance area too. so I have decided to use Solr as a search engine for product search and suggestions. In addition, I'm thinking to replace Solr by Elasticsearch once explored/reviewed enough about Elasticsearch.

      Host: As of now, my plan to complete the application with decent features first and deploy it in a free hosting environment like Docker and Heroku and then once it is stable then I have planned to use the AWS products Amazon S3, EC2, Amazon RDS and Amazon Route 53. I'm not sure about Microsoft Azure that what is the specialty in it than Heroku and Amazon EC2 Container Service. Anyhow, I will do explore these once again and pick the best suite one for my requirement once I reached this level.

      Build and Repositories: I have decided to choose Apache Maven and Git as these are my favorites and also so popular on respectively build and repositories.

      Additional Utilities :) - I would like to choose Codacy for code review as their Startup plan will be very helpful to this application. I'm already experienced with Google CheckStyle and SonarQube even I'm looking something on Codacy.

      Happy Coding! Suggestions are welcome! :)

      Thanks, Ganesa

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      Francisco Quintero
      Tech Lead at Dev As Pros · | 13 upvotes · 1.6M views

      For Etom, a side project. We wanted to test an idea for a future and bigger project.

      What Etom does is searching places. Right now, it leverages the Google Maps API. For that, we found a React component that makes this integration easy because using Google Maps API is not possible via normal API requests.

      You kind of need a map to work as a proxy between the software and Google Maps API.

      We hate configuration(coming from Rails world) so also decided to use Create React App because setting up a React app, with all the toys, it's a hard job.

      Thanks to all the people behind Create React App it's easier to start any React application.

      We also chose a module called Reactstrap which is Bootstrap UI in React components.

      An important thing in this side project(and in the bigger project plan) is to measure visitor through out the app. For that we researched and found that Keen was a good choice(very good free tier limits) and also it is very simple to setup and real simple to send data to

      Slack and Trello are our defaults tools to comunicate ideas and discuss topics, so, no brainer using them as well for this project.

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      Material Design

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      PROS OF MATERIAL DESIGN
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        They really set a new bar in design
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        An intuitive design
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        Simply, And Beautiful
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        Many great libraries
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        Composants
      CONS OF MATERIAL DESIGN
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        Sometimes, it can hang the browser

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      Giordanna De Gregoriis
      Jr Fullstack Developer at Stefanini Inspiring · | 8 upvotes · 448.7K views

      TL;DR: Shall I keep developing with Nuxt.js 2 and wait for a migration guide to Nuxt 3? Or start developing with Vue.js 3 using Vite, and then migrate to Nuxt 3 when it comes out?

      Long version: We have an old web application running on AngularJS and Bootstrap for frontend. It is mostly a user interface to easily read and post data to our engine.

      We want to redo this web application. Started from scratch using the newest version of Angular 2+ and Material Design for frontend. We haven't even finished rewriting half of the application and it is becoming dreadful to work on.

      • The cold start takes too much time
      • Every little change reload the whole page. Seconds to minutes of development lost looking at a loading blank page just changing css
      • Code maintainability is getting worse... again... as the application grows, since we must create everytime 5 files for a new page (html, component.ts, module.ts, scss, routing.ts)

      I'm currently trying to code a Proof of Concept using Nuxt.js and Tailwind CSS. But the thing is, Vue.js 3 is out and has interesting features such as the composition API, teleport and fragments. Also we wish to use the Vite frontend tooling, to improve our time developing regardless of our application size. It feels like a better alternative to Webpack, which is what Nuxt 2 uses.

      I'm already trying Nuxt.js with the nuxt-vite experimental module, but many nuxt modules are still incompatible from the time I'm posting this. It is also becoming cumbersome not being able to use teleport or fragments, but that can be circumvented with good components.

      What I'm asking is, what should be the wisest decision: keep developing with Nuxt 2 and wait for a migration guide to Nuxt 3? Or start developing with Vue.js 3 using Vite, and then migrate to Nuxt 3 when it comes out?

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      Ashish Sharma
      Sr. UI Associate at Daffodil Software · | 5 upvotes · 678.2K views

      I am a bit confused when to choose Bootstrap vs Material Design or Tailwind CSS, and why? I mean, in which kind of projects we can work with bootstrap/Material/Tailwind CSS? If the design is made up on the grid, we prefer bootstrap, and if flat design, then material design. Similarly, when do we choose tailwind CSS?

      Any suggestion would be appreciated?

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      Materialize

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      PROS OF MATERIALIZE
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        Google material design
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        Easy to use
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        Responsive
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        Modern looks
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        Open source
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        Good documentation
      • 37
        Code examples
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        Extremely light - 29kb
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        Flexible
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        Great Support
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        It looks beautiful
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        Very nice looking components to quickly build out
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        Smooth animation
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        Great Grid System
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        Great
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        Ruby gem to integrate in 2 seconds flat
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        Angular2 Support
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        MIT Lisence
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        Friendly api, easy setup, good documentation
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        Easy setup
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        React
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        Grid system
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        Because of the easy to use and very editable library
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        Responsivness
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        Jibberish
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        Friendly Api
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        Better class name
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        Rtl support
      CONS OF MATERIALIZE
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        Mobile errors
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        Poor Grid System
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        Unmaintained

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