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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
Pros of Topcoat
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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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    Open source
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    Backed by Adobe
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    Pretty
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    Themeable
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    BEM Architecture
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    Lightweight
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    Fast
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    Clean
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    PSD included

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Cons of Flakes
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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 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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