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Flakes vs Topcoat: 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 Topcoat? CSS for clean and fast web apps. TopCoat is made up of base controls, platform specific styles, themes and a build script to stitch them all together.
Flakes and Topcoat can be categorized as "Front-End Frameworks" tools.
Flakes and Topcoat are both open source tools. Topcoat with 4.31K GitHub stars and 417 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
- High information density1
- Minimalist to almost the extreme1
- Good integration with gridforms1
Pros of Topcoat
- Open source3
- Backed by Adobe3
- Pretty2
- Themeable2
- BEM Architecture1
- Lightweight1
- Fast1
- Clean1
- PSD included1
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Cons of Flakes
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- Seemingly small to no community1
- Not comprehensive1
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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 Topcoat?
TopCoat is made up of base controls, platform specific styles, themes and a build script to stitch them all together.
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