Material Design for Bootstrap vs Toolkit: What are the differences?

Developers describe Material Design for Bootstrap as "Material Design for Bootstrap". This Bootstrap theme is an easy way to use the new Material Design guidelines by Google in your Bootstrap 3 based application. Just include the theme right after the Bootstrap CSS and include the javascript at the end of your document, everything will be converted to Material Design (paper) style. 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.

Material Design for Bootstrap and Toolkit can be primarily classified as "Front-End Frameworks" tools.

Some of the features offered by Material Design for Bootstrap are:

• Input fields (text, numeric, email, etc)
• Textarea
• Buttons (ripple effect working)

On the other hand, Toolkit provides the following key features:

• Mobile First
• Responsive Design
• Semantic Markup

Material Design for Bootstrap and Toolkit are both open source tools. It seems that Material Design for Bootstrap with 19.9K GitHub stars and 3.31K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Toolkit with 1.11K GitHub stars and 121 GitHub forks.