Bootstrap vs Foundation vs Semantic UI vs UIkIt

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Bootstrap

55.5K
13.2K
+ 1
7.7K
Foundation

1.2K
1.2K
+ 1
740
Semantic UI

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1.5K
+ 1
673
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Pros of Bootstrap
Pros of Foundation
Pros of Semantic UI
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    Responsiveness
  • 1.2K
    UI components
  • 943
    Consistent
  • 779
    Great docs
  • 677
    Flexible
  • 472
    HTML, CSS, and JS framework
  • 411
    Open source
  • 375
    Widely used
  • 368
    Customizable
  • 242
    HTML framework
  • 77
    Popular
  • 77
    Easy setup
  • 77
    Mobile first
  • 58
    Great grid system
  • 52
    Great community
  • 38
    Future compatibility
  • 34
    Integration
  • 28
    Very powerful foundational front-end framework
  • 24
    Standard
  • 23
    Javascript plugins
  • 19
    Build faster prototypes
  • 18
    Preprocessors
  • 14
    Grids
  • 9
    Good for a person who hates CSS
  • 8
    Clean
  • 4
    Love it
  • 4
    Easy to setup and learn
  • 4
    Rapid development
  • 3
    Great and easy to use
  • 2
    Devin schumacher rules
  • 2
    Boostrap
  • 2
    Community
  • 2
    Provide angular wrapper
  • 2
    Great and easy
  • 2
    Powerful grid system, Rapid development, Customization
  • 2
    Great customer support
  • 2
    Popularity
  • 2
    Clean and quick frontend development
  • 2
    Great and easy to make a responsive website
  • 2
    Sprzedam opla
  • 2
    Easy to use
  • 1
    Intuitive
  • 1
    Material-ui
  • 1
    The fame
  • 1
    Numerous components
  • 1
    Responsive design
  • 1
    Felxible, comfortable, user-friendly
  • 1
    Easy setup2
  • 1
    Design Agnostic
  • 1
    Painless front end development
  • 1
    So clean and simple
  • 1
    Recognizable
  • 1
    It's fast
  • 1
    Geo
  • 1
    Pre-Defined components
  • 1
    Not tied to jQuery
  • 1
    Love the classes?
  • 1
    Poop
  • 1
    Vue
  • 160
    Responsive grid
  • 93
    Mobile first
  • 80
    Open source
  • 75
    Semantic
  • 72
    Customizable
  • 52
    Quick to prototype
  • 50
    Simple ui
  • 45
    Fast
  • 44
    Best practices
  • 39
    Easy setup
  • 6
    Neutral style
  • 6
    HTML, SCSS and JS
  • 5
    Accessibility support
  • 5
    Professional
  • 3
    Xy grid
  • 2
    Sass
  • 2
    Every new version is smaller, smarter & more efficient
  • 1
    Robust
  • 157
    Easy to use and looks elegant
  • 92
    Variety of components
  • 64
    Themes
  • 61
    Has out-of-the-box widgets i would actually use
  • 57
    Semantic, duh
  • 44
    Its the future
  • 42
    Open source
  • 37
    Very active development
  • 31
    Far less complicated structure
  • 28
    Gulp
  • 9
    Already has more features than bootstrap
  • 8
    Just compare it to Bootstrap and you'll be hooked
  • 7
    Clean and consistent markup model
  • 7
    UI components
  • 6
    Responsiveness
  • 4
    Because it is semantic :-D
  • 4
    Elegant. clean. readable. maintainable
  • 4
    Good-Looking
  • 2
    Is big and look really great, nothing like this
  • 2
    Consistent
  • 2
    Great docs
  • 2
    Modular and scalable
  • 1
    Easy to use
  • 1
    Blends with reactjs
  • 1
    Jquery

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Cons of Bootstrap
Cons of Foundation
Cons of Semantic UI
  • 26
    Javascript is tied to jquery
  • 16
    Every site uses the defaults
  • 15
    Grid system break points aren't ideal
  • 14
    Too much heavy decoration in default look
  • 8
    Verbose styles
  • 1
    Super heavy
  • 5
    Requires jQuery
  • 4
    Awful site
  • 5
    Outdated build tool (gulp 3))
  • 3
    Poor accessibility support
  • 3
    HTML is not semantic (see list component)
  • 2
    Javascript is tied to jquery

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What is Bootstrap?

Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.

What is Foundation?

Foundation is the most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world. You can quickly prototype and build sites or apps that work on any kind of device with Foundation, which includes layout constructs (like a fully responsive grid), elements and best practices.

What is Semantic UI?

Semantic empowers designers and developers by creating a shared vocabulary for UI.

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