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Material-UI vs Chakra UI: What are the differences?
Material-UI: React components for faster and easier web development. It is a comprehensive guide for visual, motion, and interaction design across platforms and devices; Chakra UI: Modular and accessible UI components for React apps. It is a simple, modular and accessible component library that gives you all the building blocks you need to build your React applications.
Material-UI can be classified as a tool in the "Front-End Frameworks" category, while Chakra UI is grouped under "UI Components".
Some of the features offered by Material-UI are:
- Tables
- Forms
- Snackbars
On the other hand, Chakra UI provides the following key features:
- Ease of Styling
- Flexible & composable
- Dark Mode
Material-UI is an open source tool with 58.3K GitHub stars and 16.6K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Material-UI's open source repository on GitHub.
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 Chakra UI
- Typescript Support4
- Good documentation2
- Accessibility2
- Responsiveness1
- Barev Arman1
Pros of Material-UI
- React122
- Material Design77
- Ui components54
- CSS framework26
- Component21
- Looks great12
- Responsive10
- Good documentation10
- LESS9
- Open source7
- Code examples6
- Flexible5
- Ui component5
- JSS4
- Supports old browsers out of the box3
- Angular3
- Fun3
- Very accessible3
- Designed for Server Side Rendering2
- LADO2
- Barev Arman2
- Interface2
- Easy to work with1
- Asdasd1
- 5550
- User0
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Cons of Chakra UI
- B1
Cons of Material-UI
- Hard to learn. Bad documentation29
- Hard to customize23
- Hard to understand Docs19
- Extra library needed for date/time pickers6
- Bad performance6
- Long Code5
- For editable table component need to use material-table5