8 Bootstrap Alternatives

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Bootstrap

You’ve probably heard a lot about Bootstrap. Put simply, it is a front-end framework that helps speed up and improve building functional websites.r. The original Bootstrap (also known as Twitter Bootstrap) was the project of two Twitter employees, Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton.

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Foundation

The newest version, Foundation 5, was released in the fall of 2013 and brought some much needed improvements that have set a new standard for web frameworks. My favorite is ‘Interchange‘ – a simple way for using media queries to change content depending on the user’s browser. It makes it possible to provide lighter component options for mobile users.

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HTML5

I found http://www.builtwithhtml5boilerplate.com/ good for examples of HTML5 Boilerplate sites and http://www.builtwithbootstrap.com/ good for Bootstrap. But can’t really find any good compilations of foundation or zimit? Anyone?

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Ink

InK is an interface kit for the rapid development of web interfaces that aims to be easy to use and expand upon. It’s also based on LESS and offers a fluid grid and other responsive development features for creating both large and small website projects. InK’s primary differentiator is how it handles layout, allowing flexibility in how blocks fall within the grid. You can see some demos of sites build with InK here, and here.

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HTML5 Boilerplate

HTML5 Boilerplate isn’t really a framework but rather it is a professional front-end template to give you a head start building a robust and adaptable web app. Boilerplate comes baked with Modernizr, Normalize.css and jQuery to help you create pages that work across browsers and can adapt to browsers that don’t offer support for certain features.

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Zimit is a very lightweight HTML5 framework for prototyping responsive web site designs for web developers. It’s based on the LESS CSS pre-processor and provides a framework designed for scalability and code that’s easy to read and understand. It supports all modern web browsers and compiled it’s only 88kb in total file size.

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HTML KickStart is perfect place to start for building menus, buttons, placeholders and even slideshows. It contains a set of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript components that will help you save a ton of time, by letting you build things quickly. HTML KickStart has everything you need to rapidly create HTML page layouts including components for buttons, lists, menus tables and more, making it perfect for wireframing.

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Kickstrap isn’t exactly an alternative to Bootstrap. It is a boilerplate of Bootstrap, JSPM (a JavaScript package manager), AngularJS and Roots (for compiling Jade, CoffeeScript and Stylus). Basically Kickstrap seamlessly combines Bootstrap with a bunch of top-tier web technologies. It can even run an authenticated, database-driven web app without a backend, using built-in Firebase integration.

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Purecss

Pure, created by Yahoo! is a collection of CSS modules designed to be extremely compact (4.5KB minified and gzipped). It offers the ability to select only the pieces that you need, saving and compressing the size again. This can be especially important on mobile devices. You can see a really nice comparison to Bootstrap in this review.

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YUI

YUI is a free, open source JavaScript and CSS framework for building interactive web applications. YUI is provided under a BSD license and is available on GitHub for forking and contribution. YUI has been around for a while and has proven to be scalable, fast, and robust. Built by front-end engineers at Yahoo! and contributors from around the world, it includes a comprehensive API for things like working with the DOM, creating UI effects and loading content via Ajax.

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