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Flakes vs Semantic UI: What are the differences?
What is Flakes? 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.
What is Semantic UI? A UI Component library implemented using a set of specifications designed around natural language. Semantic empowers designers and developers by creating a shared vocabulary for UI.
Flakes and Semantic UI belong to "Front-End Frameworks" category of the tech stack.
Flakes and Semantic UI are both open source tools. It seems that Semantic UI with 45.9K GitHub stars and 4.84K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Flakes with 1.87K GitHub stars and 94 GitHub forks.
Pros of Flakes
- High information density1
- Minimalist to almost the extreme1
- Good integration with gridforms1
Pros of Semantic UI
- Easy to use and looks elegant157
- Variety of components92
- Themes64
- Has out-of-the-box widgets i would actually use61
- Semantic, duh57
- Its the future44
- Open source42
- Very active development37
- Far less complicated structure31
- Gulp28
- Already has more features than bootstrap9
- Just compare it to Bootstrap and you'll be hooked8
- Clean and consistent markup model7
- UI components7
- Responsiveness6
- Because it is semantic :-D4
- Elegant. clean. readable. maintainable4
- Good-Looking4
- Is big and look really great, nothing like this2
- Consistent2
- Great docs2
- Modular and scalable2
- Easy to use1
- Blends with reactjs1
- Jquery1
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Cons of Flakes
- Seemingly small to no community1
- Not comprehensive1
Cons of Semantic UI
- Outdated build tool (gulp 3))5
- Poor accessibility support3
- HTML is not semantic (see list component)3
- Javascript is tied to jquery2