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Flakes vs Primer: What are the differences?

Developers describe Flakes as "Front-end framework optimized for internal apps". Flakes is an Admin Template Framework. A combination of CSS Libraries, JavaScript Libraries and Design files that help you build business tools very quickly. On the other hand, Primer is detailed as "CSS toolkit and guidelines that power GitHub". Primer is the basecoat of GitHub, made by nerds just like you who share a passion for HTML and CSS.

Flakes and Primer can be primarily classified as "Front-End Frameworks" tools.

Flakes and Primer are both open source tools. It seems that Primer with 8.42K GitHub stars and 621 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Flakes with 1.87K GitHub stars and 94 GitHub forks.

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    High information density
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    Minimalist to almost the extreme
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    Good integration with gridforms
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    simple
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    Pretty
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    Maintained by GitHub

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    Seemingly small to no community
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    Not comprehensive
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    What is Flakes?

    Flakes is an Admin Template Framework. A combination of CSS Libraries, JavaScript Libraries and Design files that help you build business tools very quickly.

    What is Primer?

    Primer is the basecoat of GitHub, made by nerds just like you who share a passion for HTML and CSS.

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