When comparing Stylify vs Topcoat, the Slant community recommends Stylify for most people. In the question“What are the best minimal CSS frameworks?” Stylify is ranked 16th while Topcoat is ranked 19th. The most important reason people chose Stylify is:
It uses native CSS property:value selectors like color:blue or font-weight:bold as a selector.
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Pros
Pro Intuitive selectors
It uses native CSS property:value selectors like color:blue or font-weight:bold as a selector.
Pro Selectors minification
It shrinks long selectors such as font-weight:bold to _ab12.
Pro Small CSS chunks
- CSS can be generated for each file, page, layout or component separately.
- Selector is generated only once and reused when possible.
Pro On demand generated CSS
It can generate CSS on demand for example inside the express request.
Pro No dependencies required
It doesn't require any post or pre processor.
Pro Seamless integration
It can be easily integrated into the Nuxt.js, Next.js. It works well along with Webpack, Rollup and Vite.js. The CSS can be generated easily for Symfony, Nette or Laravel.
Pro Dynamic screens
Screens can be combined using logical operangs like sm&&tolg, xl||landscape and lg&&dark. The value for media queries can be dynamic like minw640px.
Pro Focused on performance
Every Topcoat component is built with performance in mind. Most of the stylesheets are small and do not take too long to load.
Cons
Con Not so impressive design
But it is themeable.
Con Some issues with typography
For some components the text size is quite small, while for others it's too light over a light background, making the text harder to read.