Uikit – A lightweight and modular front-end framework

For a quick overview of look-and-feel of elements, see https://getuikit.com/docs/customizer.html

Applaud you for what it a lot of work and a nice, clean UI kit. But at the end of the day, what really differentiates this one from, say, Bootstrap or SemanticUI etc.?

Seems to be a rehash of similar components in a lot of other libraries, but with less featured functionality. For instance, I checked out the autocomplete component, but it doesn't seem to do a 'progressive' search when you start typing in something. Instead, as soon as you start typing, it displays ALL the options in the drop down. I would much rather it does a keyword match and narrows down the selection the more you type - like other autocomplete UI kits do.

bootstrap alternative?

Another UI framework.

So that's...

HTML/CSS/JS:

http://getbootstrap.com

http://bourbon.io

http://foundation.zurb.com

http://semantic-ui.com

https://getmdl.io

https://getuikit.com

http://purecss.io

http://materializecss.com

https://mincss.com

http://basscss.com

https://muicss.com

http://bulma.io

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React:

https://react-bootstrap.github.io

http://www.material-ui.com

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Phew. And people complain about JavaScript frameworks. Those are just the ones I've remembered. Probably a hundred more whose names my memory did not retain. Varying use cases for the likes of min.css and Material Design Lite/clones but still.

I also developed my own (it would be unfair to call it a framework in my case) boilerplate for front-end work, but even if I turned it into a UI framework, I wouldn't be able to justify adding to the list above.

I'm in two minds about UI frameworks anyway. I keep mine as a boilerplate because I like to offer significantly different design options when I develop a website for a client, and I think front-end frameworks have played some part in the samey-ness of all websites today.

That said, how many start-ups have launched with less money spent on front-end developers thanks to Bootstrap? Lots, I'm sure.

How many hours were saved not working out all of the IE8 hacks Bootstrap includes as standard? Many, many, many.

Bootstrap and friends can all be chopped down to size before you even download the source files. Others like Bass CSS are designed to be extremely malleable, so I'm not sure what else there is to bring to the table.

Stuff like Bulma is flexbox-based, which is advertised as a feature, though I'm not sure it should be. In my experience, any mention of flexbox means 'less reliable than using float/display: inline-block/position: absolute for older browsers'

More like Zurb Foundation alternative. Check out their twitter https://twitter.com/getuikit to have a first glance at upcoming goodies in version 3.0.