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Slant community chat on Discourse| 6 Recommended Products | Recommendations | Price | GZipped size | Last Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 Bootstrap· · · | 9 | 0 | Free | – | Aug 8, 2017 |
| #2 Foundation· · · | 9 | 0 | – | – | Aug 16, 2017 |
| #3 UiKit· · · | 1 | 0 | – | – | Jul 30, 2017 |
| #4 Semantic UI· · · | 0 | 0 | – | – | Dec 31, 2016 |
| #5 jQuery Mobile· · · | 1 | 0 | – | – | Jul 31, 2017 |
| #6 JQuery· · · | 1 | 0 | – | 18K | Jul 31, 2017 |
Pro Well documented
Documentation is thorough, well organized and full of live examples and templates ready for use. Every component and every part of the framework is explained and covered in depth.
Pro Designed to get a site running quickly
Bootstrap is designed to get a site up and running quickly. Each of it's components is pre-configured to help with getting a site up and running quickly.
Pro Consistency across browsers
The grid layout with the predefined CSS elements and JavaScript components make it easier to have consistency across different browser versions and even different devices.
Con Too many classes
Bootstrap's over-reliance on HTML classes for styling can get very messy very quickly. There's also an overabundance of DOM elements which have a lot of classes and are more often than not nested inside DOM elements with even more classes. This gets problematic down the line because the ma...
Con Large file size out of the box
Bootstrap has an out-of-the box filesize of ~276K, which is pretty large considering it's just CSS. Most of those styles aren't even used in 90% of web pages built with Bootstrap. By only including the required styles it can be trimmed by 70%-75%.
Con Websites can start to look the same
If the initial Bootstrap colors and styles are not changed or edited, different websites start looking the same even if they have nothing to do with each other and they are made by different developers.
Pro Namespaced
It's handy that everything is prefixed by "ui" so you know at a glance what classes are UIKit stylines.
Pro Great style even out of the box
UiKit has a pretty good and clean style even out of the box without any customization needed.
Con Not very popular
UiKit is not a very popular framework, especially compared to other options. As such it may be hard to find learning resources other than the official documentation or it may be more likely for development of UiKit to be dropped than for another more popular framework
Con Closed development
Development is mostly done in-house and not publicly available.
Pro Official support for third-party applications
There are several official implementations of Semantic UI for many popular libraries, frameworks and CMS. Such as Angular or Wordpress.
Pro It's semantic
Uses semantic class names for its styling, making it easier to grasp and understand even for beginners looking to jump right in.
Con Very large file size
Packages are much bigger when comparing to Twitter Bootstrap or Zurb Foundation.
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