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Material-UI vs reactstrap: 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; reactstrap: Easy to use React Bootstrap 4 components compatible with React. It provides prebuilt Bootstrap 4 components that allow a great deal of flexibility and prebuilt validation. This allows us to quickly build beautiful forms that are guaranteed to impress and provide an intuitive user experience.
Material-UI belongs to "UI Components" category of the tech stack, while reactstrap can be primarily classified under "Front-End Frameworks".
Material-UI and reactstrap are both open source tools. It seems that Material-UI with 50.9K GitHub stars and 12.2K forks on GitHub has more adoption than reactstrap with 8.26K GitHub stars and 936 GitHub forks.
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-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
Pros of reactstrap
- Prebuilt Bootstrap 4 components3
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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