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Add to SafariWhen comparing Materialize vs Pure CSS from Yahoo!, the Slant community recommends Materialize for most people. In the question“What is the best CSS framework?” Materialize is ranked 13th while Pure CSS from Yahoo! is ranked 15th.
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Pros
Pro Great-looking demo
Pro Device agnostic
Since Materialize follows Google's guidelines for Material design, which in theory is device agnostic, Materialize itself is device agnostic too. It's designed to look good on every device.
Pro Large selection of components
CSS components: Badges, buttons, cards, collections, footer, forms, icons, navbar, pagination, preloader.
JavaScript components: Collapsible, Dialogs, Dropdown, Media, Modals, Parallax, Pushpin, ScrollFire, Scrollspy, SideNav, Tabs, Transitions, Waves.
Mobile-specific: slide-out drawer menu, toasts.
Pro Responsive
Pro Mobile navigation
Pro Nice showcase of sites built with Materialize
Pro Customizable
While the default style is not bad at all, Materialize also gives developers the ability to customize it and fit their own style, while still keeping in line with the Material Design philosophy.
Along with the CSS files, designers can also download the SASS files which can be edited and compiled.
Pro 12-Column Grid System
Pro Included icon font
Pro Meteor.js integration by developers
Pro Opinionated
Material design is very opinionated on how design elements should behave and look. The basics of which revolve around certain visual elements (physics, space, momentum and light) which are used to create specific UX elements.
This is very helpful because it creates a consistent feel without making every design look the same. This can be seen in Materialize too, where each element may be customized but still it keeps the consistent look of the material design.
Pro Easy to customize
Has an extremely minimalist look that is super-easy to customize since it basically gives designers just a foundation on which they can easily build their design.
Pro Cross-Browser compatibility
A solid base built on Normalize.css to fix cross-browser compatibility issues.
Pro Lightweight
Extremely small file size: 4.5KB minified + gzip.
Pro Responsive
A responsive grid that can be customized to your needs.
Pro Works well with Bootstrap
Easily use Bootstrap CSS and JS elements within the framework.
Cons
Con Refuses to use the flexbox model
Even though Materialize states that it only supports IE10+, which supports flexbox quite well, with prefixes, Materialize has refused to use Flexbox.
Con Not maintained anymore
Con Large / heavy
267 kilobytes, minified, for the CSS and JS.
Con Deprecated
No longer supported by their maintainers.
Con Not suitable for beginners
Since Pure CSS only carries a minimum number of styles out of the box, it might not be great for beginners who want a complete style that looks good out of the box without having to customize it.
