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Ant Design vs Material-UI: What are the differences?
Ant Design: A set of high-quality React components. 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; Material-UI: React components for faster and easier web development. Build your own design system, or start with Material Design. React components for faster and easier web development. Build your own design system, or start with Material Design.
Ant Design can be classified as a tool in the "JavaScript Framework Components" category, while Material-UI is grouped under "Front-End Frameworks".
"Polished and enterprisey look and feel" is the primary reason why developers consider Ant Design over the competitors, whereas "React" was stated as the key factor in picking Material-UI.
Ant Design and Material-UI are both open source tools. It seems that Material-UI with 48.1K GitHub stars and 10.7K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Ant Design with 47.8K GitHub stars and 16.8K GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, Material-UI has a broader approval, being mentioned in 67 company stacks & 77 developers stacks; compared to Ant Design, which is listed in 22 company stacks and 33 developer stacks.
Fonts and typography are fun. Material Design is a framework (developed by Google) that basically geeks out on how to assemble your typographical elements together into a design language. If you're into fonts and typography, it's fantastic. It provides a theming engine, reusable components, and can pull different user interfaces together under a common design paradigm. I'd highly recommend looking into Borries Schwesinger's book "The Form Book" if you're going to be working with Material UI or are otherwise new to component design.
https://www.amazon.com/Form-Book-Creating-Printed-Online/dp/0500515085
Pros of Ant Design
- Lots of components47
- Polished and enterprisey look and feel33
- TypeScript21
- Easy to integrate20
- Es6 support18
- Typescript support17
- Beautiful and solid17
- Beautifully Animated Components16
- Quick Release rhythm15
- Great documentation14
- Easy to customize Forms2
- Opensource and free of cost1
Pros of Material-UI
- React136
- Material Design82
- Ui components58
- CSS framework28
- Component23
- Looks great14
- Good documentation11
- Responsive11
- LESS9
- Ui component7
- Open source7
- Code examples6
- Flexible5
- JSS4
- Angular3
- Very accessible3
- Fun3
- Supports old browsers out of the box3
- Interface2
- Designed for Server Side Rendering2
- Easy to work with1
- Css1
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Cons of Ant Design
- Less23
- Large File Size10
- Poor accessibility support4
- Dangerous to use as a base in component libraries2
Cons of Material-UI
- Hard to learn. Bad documentation31
- Hard to customize25
- Hard to understand Docs19
- Bad performance6
- Extra library needed for date/time pickers6
- For editable table component need to use material-table5
