materialize
Materialize is a responsive front-end CSS/JS framework that implements Google's Material Design language, providing styled HTML components, layout grids, and interactive JavaScript widgets out of the box.
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Production readiness
4/5- Actively maintainedCommits in the last 6 months
- No known vulnerabilities4 known OSV advisories
- Clear, usable licenseMIT (permissive)
- Proven adoptionWidely used
- Has documentationDocumentation indexed
npm install materialize-cssOur analysis
A CSS framework based on Google's Material Design, bundling ready-made styles plus vanilla JavaScript components (modals, carousels, dropdowns, datepickers) and a responsive grid system.
When to use materialize
Good for quickly building websites or prototypes that should follow Material Design aesthetics without a heavy component library or build tooling — drop in the CSS/JS via CDN or npm and use semantic class names.
When not to
Avoid it for new production projects given that the original repo is effectively unmaintained; React/Vue/Angular apps are better served by framework-native libraries like MUI, and teams wanting utility-first styling should pick Tailwind.
Strengths
- Comprehensive set of pre-styled components and interactive widgets covering most common UI needs
- Familiar class-based API similar to Bootstrap, with a responsive 12-column grid
- Available through npm, CDN, Meteor and as Sass sources for theming
- Lightweight, jQuery-free vanilla JS in the 1.0 line
Trade-offs
- The original Dogfalo repository is essentially abandoned; the community-maintained materializecss/materialize fork is the active continuation
- Material Design styling can feel dated and is hard to deviate from for custom brand looks
- Not designed for component-based frameworks (React/Vue), so DOM-driven JS conflicts with virtual DOM approaches
- Older browser-targeted code and aging dependency/build chain (Grunt, Bower references)
Maturity
Very popular and widely adopted (38k+ stars), but the canonical repo has stalled with version 1.0 long in beta; ongoing maintenance has shifted to a community fork. Treat as stable-but-legacy.
Table of Contents
Quickstart:
Read the getting started guide for more information on how to use materialize.
Download the latest release of materialize directly from GitHub. (Beta)
Clone the repo:
git clone https://github.com/Dogfalo/materialize.git(Beta:git clone -b v1-dev https://github.com/Dogfalo/materialize.git)Install with npm:
npm install materialize-css(Beta:npm install materialize-css@next)Install with Bower:
bower install materialize(DEPRECATED)Install with Atmosphere:
meteor add materialize:materialize(Beta:meteor add materialize:materialize@=1.0.0-beta)
Documentation
The documentation can be found at http://materializecss.com. To run the documentation locally on your machine, you need Node.js installed on your computer.
Running documentation locally
Run these commands to set up the documentation:
git clone https://github.com/Dogfalo/materialize
cd materialize
npm install
Then run grunt monitor to compile the documentation. When it finishes, open a new browser window and navigate to localhost:8000. We use BrowserSync to display the documentation.
Documentation for previous releases
Previous releases and their documentation are available for download.
Supported Browsers:
Materialize is compatible with:
Chrome 35+
Firefox 31+
Safari 9+
Opera
Edge
IE 11+
Changelog
For changelogs, check out the Releases section of materialize or the CHANGELOG.md.
Testing
We use Jasmine as our testing framework and we're trying to write a robust test suite for our components. If you want to help, here's a starting guide on how to write tests in Jasmine.
Contributing
Check out the CONTRIBUTING document in the root of the repository to learn how you can contribute. You can also browse the help-wanted tag in our issue tracker to find things to do.
Copyright and license
Code Copyright 2018 Materialize. Code released under the MIT license.