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Material-UI vs Semantic UI: What are the differences?
What is Material-UI? React components for faster and easier web development. Build your own design system, or start with Material Design. React components for faster and easier web development. Build your own design system, or start with Material Design.
What is Semantic UI? A UI Component library implemented using a set of specifications designed around natural language. Semantic empowers designers and developers by creating a shared vocabulary for UI.
Material-UI and Semantic UI belong to "Front-End Frameworks" category of the tech stack.
"React" is the primary reason why developers consider Material-UI over the competitors, whereas "Easy to use and looks elegant" was stated as the key factor in picking Semantic UI.
Material-UI and Semantic UI are both open source tools. Material-UI with 48.1K GitHub stars and 10.7K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Semantic UI with 45.7K GitHub stars and 4.83K GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, Material-UI has a broader approval, being mentioned in 67 company stacks & 77 developers stacks; compared to Semantic UI, which is listed in 77 company stacks and 50 developer stacks.
My React website is a simple 5-pager that attaches to a database to store and display registrations and other data. The user (small user base) can change any form elements, but I don't need theme-ing, though that would be fun for the user. reactstrap/react-bootstrap built on Bootstrap 4 sounds dated. I am familiar with reactstrap, but a friend said to try Material-UI. The thought of learning it is interesting, but somehow I think it might be overkill. So... reactstrap, react-bootstrap, or Material UI, which should I use?
MaterialUI may be overkill for such a simple project, you're right. So I'm recommending both tools in this StackShare form.
But if it's planned to increase the project, consider migrating it to MUI in advance. Among its pros I can name: - brilliant TS support - all popular use cases covered - well documented - backed by sponsors == will live and be maintained
I recommend Material-UI for a couple reasons. 1. It’s very easy to throw MUI into React. You can essentially just import the components you need in place of yours. Effectively, for a button, for example, you can swap out <button for MUI’s <Button and you can be done if that’s all you want. Looks great, no hassle, and they have simple guides to help you make good UI decisions on top of that. 2. It’s pretty up-to-date, and it has great docs. I use MUI all the time, and if I were doing a simple, small user-base app, I would definitely use it for the sake of convenience and speed of development.
I've used material UI and had great success with it on React projects. Semantic UI is also another great option https://semantic-ui.com/.
When you say its "overkill", I would think long term. I do a lot of small projects not only for the purpose of the project, but also for learning, future projects and to use professionaly. It's a long-term investment.
Chakra UI seems like the perfect fit in my opinion. It has a much powerful design system, all the necessary components and it is dead simple to learn. And pretty easy to customize too.
Material-UI looks great and is easy to use. Highly recommended, my favourite UI framework for React.
It's totally the design decision if you like to follow bootstrap design then you should go for reactstrap. But if you want to follow google material design then you should go for material ui.
Much more modern in terms on support for css in js. But go for v5 not v4 as material-ui is going through a transition in term of its own implementation
Material-UI is the good choice for a small project. It's fast for development, maintenance, and is ready to use. It HaveMaterial-UI is the good choice for a small project. It's fast for development, maintenance, and is ready to use. Has an excellent documentation with pratic examples.
Hi, I start building an admin dashboard with next.js and looking for a frontend framework ( components ready ). So I end up with Ant Design and Material-UI, but I never built a project with these two.
Here is a list of my requirements.
- Good documentation.
- easy CRUD ( date picker and date range picker bundled )
- built-in multi-lang feature or Great 3rd library support
- Admin dashboard template
- well code maintenance
Which is better for the long run?
I'm using both of them. But If you want to create admin dashboard, You should try AntDesign. They (Alibaba / Taobao) created a group of UI libaries to create admin dashboard. It's production ready. https://procomponents.ant.design/en-US/components/table https://pro.ant.design/docs/layout In my opinion, If you want to create a dashboard with mobile first / simple dashboard, you can choice material ui. otherwise, antdesign is better (if you want focus on desktop /tablet ui). Some of skeleton has built with material ui such as react-admin is good point to start. But if you want to create admin site with antdesign, I think you should build with umijs (it is alternative and compatible with nextjs and antd support directlly)
https://github.com/uber/baseweb I highly recommend you baseweb, it's easy and very customizable and also beautiful.
Bootstrap is useful for rapid prototyping using an existing design system. Since the design system can be used in standard HTML + Javascript and can be imported for free into a Figma project, it lowers the complexity of our mock-up creation and frontend styling, all while promoting consistency. We did not choose Material UI, because it does not have a free design system to import into Figma.
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-UI
- React139
- Material Design82
- Ui components60
- CSS framework29
- Component24
- Looks great14
- Good documentation12
- Responsive12
- LESS9
- Ui component7
- Open source7
- Flexible6
- Code examples6
- JSS5
- Angular3
- Very accessible3
- Fun3
- Supports old browsers out of the box3
- # of components2
- Interface2
- Designed for Server Side Rendering2
- Accessibility1
- Css1
- Support for multiple styling systems1
- Typescript support1
- Easy to work with1
Pros of Semantic UI
- Easy to use and looks elegant157
- Variety of components92
- Themes64
- Has out-of-the-box widgets i would actually use61
- Semantic, duh57
- Its the future44
- Open source42
- Very active development37
- Far less complicated structure31
- Gulp28
- Already has more features than bootstrap9
- Just compare it to Bootstrap and you'll be hooked8
- UI components7
- Clean and consistent markup model7
- Responsiveness6
- Good-Looking4
- Because it is semantic :-D4
- Elegant. clean. readable. maintainable4
- Great docs2
- Consistent2
- Is big and look really great, nothing like this2
- Modular and scalable2
- Jquery1
- Easy to use1
- Blends with reactjs1
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Cons of Material-UI
- Hard to learn. Bad documentation34
- Hard to customize27
- Hard to understand Docs20
- Bad performance7
- Extra library needed for date/time pickers6
- For editable table component need to use material-table6
- Typescript Support1
- # of components0
Cons of Semantic UI
- Outdated build tool (gulp 3))5
- Poor accessibility support3
- HTML is not semantic (see list component)3
- Javascript is tied to jquery2