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Top 23 Material Design Open-Source Projects
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Let start another chapter of this journey with Dart by creating a mobile application with Flutter. For this post, a really simple application will be created called sandbox. Instead of adding some interactive part, like sending/receiving data from a backend, let simply design an application based on a wireframe.
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Material UI
Ready-to-use foundational React components, free forever. It includes Material UI, which implements Google's Material Design.
Project mention: Show HN: Typique – a bundler-independent, zero-runtime CSS-in-TS library | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-07Hi HN! I’ve been following zero-runtime CSS-in-JS/TS libraries for a while and noticed that most of them end up overwhelmed by bundler compatibility issues. A good summary of these problems is in the final status report [1] of Pigment CSS — MUI’s attempt in this space.
As someone working on TypeScript tooling, I started wondering whether this problem could be approached from a different angle: instead of relying on bundler plugins, use TypeScript types to define styles, and TypeScript tooling to provide locally scoped class and CSS variable names.
This led to Typique — a library built as a TypeScript plugin. It provides IDE integration (completion, diagnostics, quick fixes) and emits plain CSS without any dependence on bundler or framework. It’s early, but already usable; I’ve been using it in a couple of personal projects.
Feedback, questions, and skepticism are very welcome. Thanks for reading.
[1] https://github.com/mui/material-ui/issues/45759#issuecomment...
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awesome-flutter
An awesome list that curates the best Flutter libraries, tools, tutorials, articles and more.
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Project mention: MiniMax-M1 open-weight, large-scale hybrid-attention reasoning model | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-17
1. No it's not. Top GitHub repository from Google as an example: https://github.com/google/material-design-icons I think you'd actually be hard pressed to find a single repository where the company that owns it lists where they are registered.
2. This is a requirement for companies registered in the UK. You should also read your own link, it doesn't say anything about the company's presence on 3rd party websites.
3. This is such a remote reason it's laughable.
You just want them to mention it because it's a Chinese company. If they were American, Mexican, German or Zimbabwean you wouldn't give the slightest fuck.
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Ionic Framework
A powerful cross-platform UI toolkit for building native-quality iOS, Android, and Progressive Web Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
But there is a new library, built from the beginning for Signal Forms. Its name is @ng-forge/dynamic-forms. It comes with an integration of common UI libraries: Angular Material, Bootstrap, but also PrimeNG and Ionic.
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Project mention: Exploring the Vue.js Ecosystem: Tools and Libraries That Make Development Fun | dev.to | 2025-06-28
“Vuetify is a collection of pre-made components paired with powerful features such dynamic themes, global defaults, application layouts, and more. Its goal is to provide developers with all of the necessary tools to build rich and engaging user experiences.” ~ Vuetify
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Materialize - Responsive front-end framework based on Material Design
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Project mention: FileBrowser Alternatives for Mobile: A Self-Hoster's Comparison Guide | dev.to | 2026-03-28
If you self-host FileBrowser, you know the desktop experience is solid. But open it on your phone and you'll hit:
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Project mention: Linux Applications Programming by Example: The Fundamental APIs (2nd Edition) | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-03-20
Linux is rarely a porting issue for C++ or python: https://wxwidgets.org/
Static linking libraries for MacOS or Windows is contaminated by GPL/LGPL code, and this why wxwidgets excludes the disclosure requirement.
Also, if you are looking for a VueJS cross-platform GUI framework for most Desktop and Mobile platforms (MacOS hardware and developer account is a requirement):
https://github.com/quasarframework/quasar
Qt5/Qt6 frameworks sooner or later cause more problems than they solve, and require a lot more maintenance/support.
Best of luck =3
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Project mention: Automating Multilingual Content for Odoo 18: Our Headless CMS Pipeline with GPT-5.4 | dev.to | 2026-04-03
Local preview via MkDocs Material before anything goes live
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Angular Material v22 adds a small but surprisingly useful improvement to buttons: built-in progress indicator support. Instead of manually swapping button text with a spinner and dealing with layout jumpiness, we can let the Material button directive manage the loading UI for us. In this post, I'll show you the old manual approach, why it creates a small UX issue, and how Angular Material v22 cleans it up.
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Framework7 is a hybrid mobile app framework focused on creating iOS and Android apps with a native look and feel. It is especially suitable for Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) and smaller projects. Framework7 comes with a comprehensive set of UI components that match each platform’s design guidelines, allowing developers to quickly build visually appealing applications with minimal configuration.
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material-components-android
[MAINTENANCE MODE] Modular and customizable Material Design UI components for Android
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Material Design projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | Flutter | 176,906 |
| 2 | Material UI | 98,400 |
| 3 | awesome-flutter | 60,286 |
| 4 | material-design-icons | 53,436 |
| 5 | Ionic Framework | 52,512 |
| 6 | vuetify | 40,991 |
| 7 | Materialize | 38,864 |
| 8 | filemanager | 35,081 |
| 9 | material-design-lite | 32,176 |
| 10 | Quasar Framework | 27,174 |
| 11 | mkdocs-material | 26,934 |
| 12 | Seal | 26,893 |
| 13 | components | 25,028 |
| 14 | mdb-ui-kit | 24,258 |
| 15 | Hero | 22,458 |
| 16 | FlutterExampleApps | 21,494 |
| 17 | framework7 | 18,670 |
| 18 | material-components-android | 17,308 |
| 19 | MaterialDesignInXamlToolkit | 16,169 |
| 20 | dots-hyprland | 14,810 |
| 21 | react-native-paper | 14,393 |
| 22 | TW-Elements | 13,141 |
| 23 | Material | 11,983 |
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