Web Starter Kit

Twitter Bootstrap competitor?

Ironically the home page for it looks horrible in the latest version of Chrome under Windows.

I wonder what browsers versions they are going to support at launch.

I think this is a fair comparison. Right now we are not providing components like the ones you get in Zurb and Bootstrap.

EDIT: clarified.

Good question. We don't consider ourselves a Bootstrap competitor, but rather a combination of best practices and tooling when it comes to starting work on new multi-device/mobile web projects.

Bootstrap, Zurb and similar libraries provide a great start for prototyping your apps, but one of the biggest challenges with them is that it’s (almost too) easy to get stuck using their styles, look and feel for the lifetime of your application. We think this leads to a poorer experience. It's also easy to just end up with 100KB+ of styles (unless you're opting for a modular build) that never get removed.

In Web Starter Kit, we provide you a boilerplate set of base styles and a visual style guide for your components, but we actively encourage you to change these to suit your own app. This may require a little more work, but the reality is that any serious project is going to have it’s own look and feel and we want you to feel comfortable changing the kit to suit your own needs.

We also include tooling for removing unused CSS. So, even if you use our styles (or choose to use Bootstrap instead) we should hopefully help keep your pages lean.