material vs Material UI

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material		Material UI
	Project
5	Mentions	290
16,754	Stars	91,511
-	Growth	0.6%
5.8	Activity	10.0
about 2 years ago	Latest Commit	5 days ago
JavaScript	Language	TypeScript
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

material

Posts with mentions or reviews of material. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-06.

Anyone ever experienced any physical repulsion to Material Design after using Apple devices?
2 projects | /r/Design | 6 Sep 2022

If you're tired of it, I've been maintaining my MD framework for more than 4 and a half years since 2018. And before that I was working with Google on the AngularJS implementation in 2015. So I've been looking at and working on the same styles for over 7 years.
Ionic directives VS Angular material directives with Ionic Framework
2 projects | /r/codehunter | 8 Apr 2022

I want to use ionic with material design. I am stuck between using ionic directives with custom CSS and angular-material
Ultimate 2021 List of CSS Frameworks and Component Libraries for Angular, React, Vue and Svelte
19 projects | dev.to | 28 Mar 2021

Angular Material
creating an angular library that will support angular 8 and angular 2?
1 project | /r/angular | 28 Dec 2020

Okay, so take this with a grain of salt, because I have never made an NPM package and only work with recent versions of angular ... But looking at Angular Material's dev dependencies, they start at "angular": "^1.8.2", so I have a feeling you could do something similar in your package.json. The ^ symbol means "this version or higher".
7 Best Angular Component Libraries to use in 2020
7 projects | dev.to | 29 Sep 2020

Github Stars: 20,000+ Weekly npm downloads: 480,000+ Latest update: 8.0.1

Material UI

Posts with mentions or reviews of Material UI. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-05.

Zero-runtime CSS-in-JS implementation
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jan 2024
⚡Top GitHub Repositories for UI Components
10 projects | dev.to | 5 Jan 2024

🔍 Site ⭐ GitHub
StyleX – Meta's Styling Library
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Dec 2023

You'll be glad to hear that MUI is zeroing in (pun intended) on a zero runtime solution right now as an alternative to Emotion [0], although that GitHub issue doesn't capture just how far it has come. Expect more soon!
[0] https://github.com/mui/material-ui/issues/38137
9 React component libraries for efficient development in 2023
9 projects | dev.to | 13 Nov 2023

GitHub stars: 89.3k GitHub link: https://github.com/mui/material-ui Documentation: https://mui.com/material-ui/getting-started/
13 Must Know Libraries for a React Developer
12 projects | dev.to | 15 Aug 2023

With GitHub stars of 88K(August 2023) and weekly NPM downloads of 2.9 million(August 2023), MUI is one of the most popular React UI libraries in the world.
10 Best Free React UI Libraries in 2023
21 projects | dev.to | 31 Jul 2023

MUI is a collection of UI tools and component libraries that helps you bring great designs to life in no time. The most popular of these is MUI Core.
The Ultimate Comparison: Ant Design vs Material# Ant Design vs Material UI: Which React UI Library to Choose
1 project | dev.to | 19 Jul 2023
MUI finally adds "use client" to their components, but...
1 project | /r/reactjs | 11 Jul 2023
React and Vite - Why is still loading other component not imported
1 project | /r/reactjs | 24 Jun 2023
Please Grill Me On My React "Take Home Assessment"
1 project | /r/reactjs | 24 Jun 2023

In the MUI case they have a component. https://github.com/mui/material-ui/blob/master/packages/mui-lab/src/TreeView/TreeView.js#L818

What are some alternatives?

When comparing material and Material UI you can also consider the following projects:

ng-zorro-antd - Angular UI Component Library based on Ant Design

mantine - A fully featured React components library

primeng - The Most Complete Angular UI Component Library

antd - An enterprise-class UI design language and React UI library

ngx-bootstrap - Fast and reliable Bootstrap widgets in Angular (supports Ivy engine)

primereact - The Most Complete React UI Component Library

shoelace-css - A collection of professionally designed, every day UI components built on Web standards. SHOELACE IS BECOMING WEB AWESOME. WE ARE LIVE ON KICKSTARTER! 👇👇👇

Tailwind CSS - A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development.

ng-bootstrap - Angular powered Bootstrap

nextui - 🚀 Beautiful, fast and modern React UI library.

clarity - Clarity is a scalable, accessible, customizable, open source design system built with web components. Works with any JavaScript framework, built for enterprises, and designed to be inclusive.

daisyui - 🌼 🌼 🌼 🌼 🌼 The most popular, free and open-source Tailwind CSS component library