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Foundation vs tachyons: What are the differences?
Foundation: The most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world. Foundation is the most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world. You can quickly prototype and build sites or apps that work on any kind of device with Foundation, which includes layout constructs (like a fully responsive grid), elements and best practices; tachyons: Quickly build and design new UI without writing css. Create fast loading, highly readable, and 100% responsive interfaces with as little CSS as possible.
Foundation and tachyons belong to "Front-End Frameworks" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Foundation are:
- Semantic: Everything is semantic. You can have the cleanest markup without sacrificing the utility and speed of Foundation.
- Mobile First: You can build for small devices first. Then, as devices get larger and larger, layer in more complexity for a complete responsive design.
- Customizable: You can customize your build to include or remove certain elements, as well as define the size of columns, colors, font size and more.
On the other hand, tachyons provides the following key features:
- Mobile-first css architecture
- 490 accessible color combinations
- 8px baseline grid
Foundation is an open source tool with 28.2K GitHub stars and 5.77K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Foundation's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Foundation has a broader approval, being mentioned in 749 company stacks & 426 developers stacks; compared to tachyons, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.
Pros of Foundation
- Responsive grid160
- Mobile first93
- Open source80
- Semantic75
- Customizable72
- Quick to prototype52
- Simple ui50
- Fast45
- Best practices44
- Easy setup39
- Neutral style6
- HTML, SCSS and JS6
- Accessibility support5
- Professional5
- Xy grid3
- Sass2
- Every new version is smaller, smarter & more efficient2
- Robust1
Pros of tachyons
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Cons of Foundation
- Requires jQuery5
- Awful site4