Materialize vs NativeScript

Materialize vs NativeScript: What are the differences?

Developers describe Materialize as "A modern responsive front-end framework based on Material Design". A CSS Framework based on material design. On the other hand, NativeScript is detailed as "Build truly native apps with JavaScript". NativeScript enables developers to build native apps for iOS, Android and Windows Universal while sharing the application code across the platforms. When building the application UI, developers use our libraries, which abstract the differences between the native platforms.

Materialize can be classified as a tool in the "Front-End Frameworks" category, while NativeScript is grouped under "Cross-Platform Mobile Development".

Some of the features offered by Materialize are:

• Speeds up development
• User Experience Focused
• Easy to work with

On the other hand, NativeScript provides the following key features:

• 100% Access to Native Platform API
• NativeScript is free of charge as an open source project
• Code with JavaScript. Style with CSS

"Google material design" is the primary reason why developers consider Materialize over the competitors, whereas "Access to the entire native api" was stated as the key factor in picking NativeScript.

Materialize and NativeScript are both open source tools. It seems that Materialize with 36.1K GitHub stars and 4.81K forks on GitHub has more adoption than NativeScript with 17.2K GitHub stars and 1.28K GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Materialize has a broader approval, being mentioned in 46 company stacks & 56 developers stacks; compared to NativeScript, which is listed in 9 company stacks and 26 developer stacks.