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Flakes vs Skeleton: 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 Skeleton? A Beautiful Boilerplate for Responsive, Mobile-Friendly Development. Skeleton is a small collection of CSS files that can help you rapidly develop sites that look beautiful at any size, be it a 17" laptop screen or an iPhone.

Flakes and Skeleton can be categorized as "Front-End Frameworks" tools.

Flakes and Skeleton are both open source tools. Skeleton with 16.8K GitHub stars and 2.93K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Flakes with 1.87K GitHub stars and 94 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Flakes
Pros of Skeleton
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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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    Responsive
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    Simple
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    Fantastically straight forward
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    Lightweight, clean syntax
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    More than an Alternative
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    Lightweight

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Cons of Flakes
Cons of Skeleton
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    Seemingly small to no community
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    Not comprehensive
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    Have to make design decisions

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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 Skeleton?

Skeleton is a small collection of CSS files that can help you rapidly develop sites that look beautiful at any size, be it a 17" laptop screen or an iPhone.

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