Material Kit
Dev tools
ui component kit
SHOW HN2019
193points
59comments
#197of 2,195 in 2019
Top 9%of 2019 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
4 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 11 critical, out of 25 comments about the project. Thread score -0.23.
Design: 2 for, 5 againstPerformance: 0 for, 4 againstExecution: 1 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Good-looking, comprehensive themes and components
From 3 comments
I came across the Vuetify dashboard the other day for a side project I'm spinning out (http://www.sweephq.com - may or may not open source, haven't decided yet). There are some…
avinium on HNWow, such negative comments. Nobody cares that you don't like Material Design. /rant This looks awesome! As a designer and engineer, it's always frustrating when I design…
rsweeney21 on HNThis looks really nice, thanks for building it.
nathan11 on HN
Objections
Material Design looks dated or ugly to many commenters
From 3 comments
I still don't understand what's so good about Material Design, I absolutely hate it. But props for the effort.
nik736 on HNSure, but a framework won't help if the output looks bad because the design system is just horrible UI/UX wise. But great effort, apparently you are not wrong, since Material…
nik736 on HNMaterials Scientist/Engineer who also codes here: 1. I highly dislike material design as a programmer and as a consumer. 2. Google and others using “Material Design”, Polymer,…
NowThenGoodBad on HN
Feels sluggish
From 2 comments
Using Material design always feels so sluggish. Is it the shadows? Can someone with more CSS knowledge speculate about what's causing the high latency?
typon on HNFeels really sluggish.
johnisgood on HN
Not following latest Material spec
From 1 comment
This isn't following the latest Material spec. For example, see the text inputs; they went away with the underlined fields style (for some good reasons). I'd love to see that…
francislavoie on HN
Div soup markup
From 1 comment
This is yet more div soup judging by the examples in the Repo and the Wordpress theme. I am struggling to find anything that is using HTML5, CSS Grid, CSS variables and other…
Theodores on HN
Requests
Link to preview the Figma kit in browser
From 1 comment
Wow, such negative comments. Nobody cares that you don't like Material Design. /rant This looks awesome! As a designer and engineer, it's always frustrating when I design…
rsweeney21 on HN
Update to latest Material spec
From 1 comment
This isn't following the latest Material spec. For example, see the text inputs; they went away with the underlined fields style (for some good reasons). I'd love to see that…
francislavoie on HN
Questions
Is this better than Material-UI for React?
From 1 comment
Is this kit any better than https://material-ui.com/ when using React?
Flavius on HN
Does it use Material Components for the Web?
From 1 comment
I love that people make and share things, and I hate to pour water on announcements. I admire the effort that went into this. That said, it makes me sad to see more fragmentation…
bsimpson on HN
Alternatives named
Material-UI
From 2 comments
Is this kit any better than https://material-ui.com/ when using React?
Flavius on HNSorry to be rude, but simply no. I used both (inherited a Material Kit project and moved it to Material UI), and the quality of MUI is simply astonishing: 1. Releases are very…
yuchi on HN
Material Components for the Web
From 1 comment
I love that people make and share things, and I hate to pour water on announcements. I admire the effort that went into this. That said, it makes me sad to see more fragmentation…
bsimpson on HN
Grommet
From 1 comment
I was looking at UI toolkits recently for a new side project and I consciously avoided Material Design because of the Google connection and also because I don't really think it…
arethuza on HN
Spectre
From 1 comment
I've found Spectre to be relatively palatable. https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/index.html
52-6F-62 on HN