I used Angular Material to build a website. I dunno if you've ever been to the Angular Material website *https://material.angularjs.org/latest/), but check it out if you haven't. You see that nifty looking navigation bar on the left? You can't actually build that using Angular Material given all those wonderful components they list there. There are entire blog posts created so you can make a similar looking navigation menu [1][2]. There are so many things missing or incomplete in this framework that you'll only realize when you try and build a "real" application with it. Guess what? Angular Material is dead. All the developers decided to start over with Angular Material 2 because there's a new screwdriver brand in town: Angular 2. Yay for the people who just want functional doors.
Let's talk about Material Design Lite. Go check that website, especially the components page (https://getmdl.io/components/index.html). It's really nice and responsive, try changing the size of your browser window and see how the navigation bar collapses to the top. Damn this looks like a great framework, I'd like to do the same thing in my app. Imaging the surprise when you can't actually do that using the framework out-of-the-box. Oh by the way, forget about MDL, all the developers have moved on to Material Components for the Web (https://github.com/material-components/material-components-w...). So much for the guys who just want to hang a door, there's a new brand of screwdrivers on the block.
It would be great if the so-called "engineers" could spend some more time creating a complete toolbox instead of reinventing new screwdrivers every month.
[1] http://blog.vizuri.com/creating-your-own-angular-material-na... [2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28389671/create-a-menu-li...
Let's talk about Material Design Lite. Go check that website, especially the components page (https://getmdl.io/components/index.html). It's really nice and responsive, try changing the size of your browser window and see how the navigation bar collapses to the top. Damn this looks like a great framework, I'd like to do the same thing in my app. Imaging the surprise when you can't actually do that using the framework out-of-the-box. Oh by the way, forget about MDL, all the developers have moved on to Material Components for the Web (https://github.com/material-components/material-components-w...). So much for the guys who just want to hang a door, there's a new brand of screwdrivers on the block.
It would be great if the so-called "engineers" could spend some more time creating a complete toolbox instead of reinventing new screwdrivers every month.