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Onsen UI vs React Native Material Design: What are the differences?
What is Onsen UI? HTML5 Hybrid Mobile App UI Framework - work with Angular, React, Vue, Meteor & pure JavaScript. Material & Flat design. Onsen UI helps you develop both hybrid and web apps. If developing hybrid apps, you can use it with the Cordova / PhoneGap command line, or with Monaca tools (CLI, Monaca IDE - cloud-based IDE for Cordova, Localkit - desktop GUI).
What is React Native Material Design? React Native UI Components for Material Design. An open source project which aims to bring Material Design to Android through React Native by Facebook. The library is made up of many components, which can be found in the sidebar.
Onsen UI and React Native Material Design are primarily classified as "Cross-Platform Mobile Development" and "Mobile UI Frameworks" tools respectively.
Onsen UI and React Native Material Design are both open source tools. Onsen UI with 7.5K GitHub stars and 869 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than React Native Material Design with 3.12K GitHub stars and 399 GitHub forks.
Pros of Onsen UI
- Hybrid mobile3
- Works with any JavaScript framework3
- Allows for rapid prototyping3
- Free2
Pros of React Native Material Design
- Unmaintained4
- Android-only1