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Material-UI vs React Rainbow: What are the differences?

What is 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.

What is React Rainbow? Collection of components that will reliably help you build your application in a snap. It is a collection of components that will reliably help you build your application in a snap. More than 60 components built on top of React.

Material-UI and React Rainbow belong to "UI Components" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Material-UI are:

  • Tables
  • Forms
  • Snackbars

On the other hand, React Rainbow provides the following key features:

  • Interactive Examples
  • First class testing
  • Wdio page objects

Material-UI and React Rainbow are both open source tools. Material-UI with 50.9K GitHub stars and 12.2K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than React Rainbow with 797 GitHub stars and 34 GitHub forks.

Decisions about Material-UI and React Rainbow

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

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Pros of Material-UI
Pros of React Rainbow
  • 141
    React
  • 82
    Material Design
  • 60
    Ui components
  • 30
    CSS framework
  • 25
    Component
  • 14
    Looks great
  • 12
    Responsive
  • 12
    Good documentation
  • 9
    LESS
  • 8
    Ui component
  • 7
    Open source
  • 6
    Code examples
  • 6
    Flexible
  • 5
    JSS
  • 3
    Angular
  • 3
    Very accessible
  • 3
    Fun
  • 3
    Supports old browsers out of the box
  • 2
    Typescript support
  • 2
    # of components
  • 2
    Interface
  • 2
    Designed for Server Side Rendering
  • 1
    Support for multiple styling systems
  • 1
    Css
  • 1
    Easy to work with
  • 1
    Accessibility
  • 3
    It is easy to use
  • 3
    Open Source
  • 3
    Easy to integrate
  • 3
    Interactive Examples
  • 3
    Looks great
  • 3
    React
  • 3
    60+ UI Components

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Cons of Material-UI
Cons of React Rainbow
  • 35
    Hard to learn. Bad documentation
  • 28
    Hard to customize
  • 21
    Hard to understand Docs
  • 8
    Bad performance
  • 7
    Extra library needed for date/time pickers
  • 7
    For editable table component need to use material-table
  • 2
    Typescript Support
  • 1
    # of components
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    What is Material-UI?

    Material UI is a library of React UI components that implements Google's Material Design.

    What is React Rainbow?

    It is a collection of components that will reliably help you build your application in a snap. More than 60 components built on top of React.

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    What are some alternatives to Material-UI and React Rainbow?
    Kendo UI
    Fast, light, complete: 70+ jQuery-based UI widgets in one powerful toolset. AngularJS integration, Bootstrap support, mobile controls, offline data solution.
    Flat UI
    Flat UI is a beautiful theme for Bootstrap. We have redesigned many of its components to look flat in every pixel.
    Ant Design
    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.
    react-md
    React MD is Google's Material Design specifications implemented with Sass and React. The goal of the project is to create components that adhere to the Material Design specifications.
    Angular Material
    Sprint from Zero to App. Hit the ground running with comprehensive, modern UI components that work across the web, mobile and desktop. It allows to create material styled angular apps fast and easy.
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