Front End - Materialze

Popularity

Materialize is the most popular material design based framework. With around 37k stars on GitHub. It's a very compatible framework that has consistent behavior on different platforms. Which is why some developers prefer it over Bootstrap. Due to being google based, Materialize is well documented and easy to use making it popular among many fans of Google Material Design. Materialize is less popular then bootstrap but it a great choice as a beginner framework.

Strength

Huge selction of components

Responsive support endures that websites are supported across all devices

Speed up development as it offeres default stylings

Easy to use because it comes with detailed documentation and specific code examples

Weakness

Large file size makes this a bulky framework to work with

No support for Flexbox model

Speed up development as it offeres default stylings

Easy to use because it comes with detailed documentation and specific code examples

Used By

The3BallSoft

Avhana Health

LooselLeaf

Settlin

Back End - Django

Popularity

Django is a high level python based web framework and one of the most popular backend frameworks if not the most. Due to the popularity of Python, Django has a huge user base because of its rapid development and clean pragmatic design. It is well known due to the amount of web application features it provides. It is also free and open sourced with the framework being constantly updated.

Strength

Django is constantly being updated with new and useful packages and built in tools

Django is crowd tested and many huge business websites use Django
Speed up development as it offeres default stylings

Django has one of the best documentations because of its user base

Django is quick and offers immense scalability, highly optimized security and customization

Weakness

Django is suitable for big projects but for smaller ones its heavy and monolithic structure can be a hindrance

Broad knowledge of the system is required to use Django

Small task requires a substantial amount of programming

Django can be used to make human readable URL's but it uses regex to do so which makes the code bulky and complicated

Used By

Instagram

Google

Spotify