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Flat UI vs Polymer: What are the differences?

What is Flat UI? Free Bootstrap Framework and Theme. Flat UI is a beautiful theme for Bootstrap. We have redesigned many of its components to look flat in every pixel.

What is Polymer? A new library built on top of Web Components, designed to leverage the evolving web platform on modern browsers. Polymer is a new type of library for the web, designed to leverage the existing browser infrastructure to provide the encapsulation and extendability currently only available in JS libraries. Polymer is based on a set of future technologies, including Shadow DOM, Custom Elements and Model Driven Views. Currently these technologies are implemented as polyfills or shims, but as browsers adopt these features natively, the platform code that drives Polymer evacipates, leaving only the value-adds.

Flat UI and Polymer belong to "Front-End Frameworks" category of the tech stack.

Flat UI and Polymer are both open source tools. It seems that Polymer with 21.1K GitHub stars and 2K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Flat UI with 14.5K GitHub stars and 2.46K GitHub forks.

AX Semantics, USERcycle, and Telemetry are some of the popular companies that use Polymer, whereas Flat UI is used by Apexure, Leonis Holding, and SkyQuest. Polymer has a broader approval, being mentioned in 42 company stacks & 32 developers stacks; compared to Flat UI, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.

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Pros of Flat UI

Pros of Polymer

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Sass support
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CSS class naming conventions are similar to Bootstrap
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Good for mockups and minimal UI design
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Basic Flat design

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Web components
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Material design
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HTML
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Components
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Open source
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It uses the platform
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Designer friendly. HTMLX concepts
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Like the interesting naming convention for elements

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Cons of Flat UI

Cons of Polymer

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Not for creative and modern UI design

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Last version is like 2 years ago? that's totally rad

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What is Flat UI?

Flat UI is a beautiful theme for Bootstrap. We have redesigned many of its components to look flat in every pixel.

What is Polymer?

Polymer is a new type of library for the web, designed to leverage the existing browser infrastructure to provide the encapsulation and extendability currently only available in JS libraries. Polymer is based on a set of future technologies, including Shadow DOM, Custom Elements and Model Driven Views. Currently these technologies are implemented as polyfills or shims, but as browsers adopt these features natively, the platform code that drives Polymer evacipates, leaving only the value-adds.

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What companies use Flat UI?

What companies use Polymer?

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What tools integrate with Flat UI?

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What are some alternatives to Flat UI and Polymer?

Material Design

Material Design is a unified system that combines theory, resources, and tools for crafting digital experiences.

Material-UI

Material UI is a library of React UI components that implements Google's Material Design.

Bootstrap

Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.

Material Design for Angular

Material Design is a specification for a unified system of visual, motion, and interaction design that adapts across different devices. Our goal is to deliver a lean, lightweight set of AngularJS-native UI elements that implement the material design system for use in Angular SPAs.

Animate.css

It is a bunch of cool, fun, and cross-browser animations for you to use in your projects. Great for emphasis, home pages, sliders, and general just-add-water-awesomeness.

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