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Material Design vs Material-UI: What are the differences?
Material Design and Material-UI are two popular design systems used in building user interfaces. Here are the key differences between Material Design and Material-UI:
Origin and Purpose: Material Design is a design language developed by Google for creating visually appealing and consistent user interfaces across different platforms. It provides a comprehensive set of design patterns, components, and guidelines for creating intuitive and delightful user experiences. Material-UI, on the other hand, is a React component library that implements the Material Design principles. It provides pre-built components and styles that follow the Material Design guidelines, making it easier for developers to build UIs in a consistent and visually appealing manner.
Implementation: Material Design is a versatile design language applicable to web, mobile, and desktop platforms. It offers comprehensive guidelines for developers and designers. Material-UI, tailored for React apps, is a collection of reusable components adhering to Material Design principles, simplifying UI development and integration in React applications.
Customization and Theming: Material Design offers extensive customization options for designers and developers, including color palettes, typography, shape, and layout. Material-UI, a React component library, provides a flexible theming system for easy customization of component appearance and seamless integration with custom styles.
Ecosystem and Community: Material Design has a large and active community of designers and developers who contribute to the evolution and adoption of the design language. It has extensive documentation, resources, and design tools to support the implementation of Material Design across different platforms. Material-UI, being a popular React component library, has its own active community of users and contributors. It offers additional features and utilities specific to React development and benefits from the broader React ecosystem.
In summary, Material Design is a design language developed by Google, providing guidelines and principles for creating visually appealing and consistent user interfaces. Material-UI is a React component library that implements the Material Design principles, offering pre-built components and styles for building UIs in React applications. Material Design serves as a design language applicable to various platforms, while Material-UI offers a ready-to-use component library for React applications.
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?
Hi Ashish,
If you need minimal work to be done from your end and like most of the components / design available out of the box - go with Bootstrap. This is the oldest and has the widest adoption and a whole range of components built out by others.
If you like Material design, this is a good choice too. Please note that Bootstrap also has a Material theme, though it is not as native.
Both of these above frameworks are bulky and has more than what you may need.
If you like to build micro-components in a elegant way, TailwindCSS is the way to go.
I don't know about material design.
You would go with Bootstrap if you want to prototype / build something without bothering about the design at all and you are OK if everything looks kinda template-y, using bootstrap out of the box components.
Go with Tailwind if you need a sleek design, a user interface where building with components will be important (because tailwind strongly favors component-based UI), and you know you will need to extend the built-in classes with your own (because tailwind is very easy to extend)
I would personally recommend tailwind over bootstrap any day of the week.
Tailwind is great you don't have to mess with naming things and it is so much more flexible than the cookie cutter bootstrap, but I don't know about material UI. I recommend tailwind it's super simple to learn and has great code snippets.
Put simply, you should use Tailwind regardless. It is a great addition to whatever you use because it removes the hassle of writing CSS.
Ant Design offers the most components with JS and CSS taken care of. They look clean, professional, and usable.
We paired this with Bulma for making the containers and structure reactive. Bulma (for react) make it easy to just add a section, container, and content and have it work on all platforms.
We also use Geist UI, though not recognized by Stack share, for its simple and modern feel. Highly recommend Geist if you want modern components for complicated UI's
I replaced Bootstrap with Material-UI during the front-end UI development, because Material-UI adopts a component-based importing style, making it suit well in a "React programming style". This makes me comfortable when programming because I can treat importing UI components as other React components I define.
As our team will be building a web application, HTML5 and CSS3 are one of the standardized combinations to implement the structure and the styling of a webpage. Material-UI comes with all sorts of predesigned web components such as buttons and dropdowns that will save us tons of development time. Since it is a component library designed for React, it suits our needs. However, we do acknowledge that predesigned components may sometimes cause pains especially when it comes to custom styling. To make our life even easier, we also adopted Tailwind CSS. It is a CSS framework providing low-level utility classes that will act as building blocks when we create custom designs.
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 Material Design
- They really set a new bar in design5
- An intuitive design4
- Simply, And Beautiful3
- Many great libraries2
- Composants0
Pros of Material-UI
- React141
- Material Design82
- Ui components60
- CSS framework30
- Component26
- Looks great15
- Responsive13
- Good documentation12
- LESS9
- Ui component8
- Open source7
- Flexible6
- Code examples6
- JSS5
- Supports old browsers out of the box3
- Interface3
- Angular3
- Very accessible3
- Fun3
- Typescript support2
- # of components2
- Designed for Server Side Rendering2
- Support for multiple styling systems1
- Accessibility1
- Easy to work with1
- Css1
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Cons of Material Design
- Sometimes, it can hang the browser2
Cons of Material-UI
- Hard to learn. Bad documentation36
- Hard to customize29
- Hard to understand Docs22
- Bad performance9
- Extra library needed for date/time pickers7
- For editable table component need to use material-table7
- Typescript Support2
- # of components1
