Material Design for Bootstrap vs Yii: 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, Yii is detailed as "A high-performance PHP framework best for developing Web 2.0 applications". Yii comes with: MVC, DAO/ActiveRecord, I18N/L10N, caching, authentication and role-based access control, scaffolding, testing, etc. It can reduce your development time significantly.
Material Design for Bootstrap and Yii are primarily classified as "Front-End Frameworks" and "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools respectively.
"Bootstrap" is the primary reason why developers consider Material Design for Bootstrap over the competitors, whereas "Open source" was stated as the key factor in picking Yii.
Material Design for Bootstrap and Yii are both open source tools. Material Design for Bootstrap with 19.9K GitHub stars and 3.31K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Yii with 4.87K GitHub stars and 2.21K GitHub forks.
180vita, Utrip, and FreshMail are some of the popular companies that use Yii, whereas Material Design for Bootstrap is used by MXD3D, Itbid, and TypeLead. Yii has a broader approval, being mentioned in 48 company stacks & 29 developers stacks; compared to Material Design for Bootstrap, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.