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Primer vs Semantic UI: What are the differences?
What is Primer? CSS toolkit and guidelines that power GitHub. Primer is the basecoat of GitHub, made by nerds just like you who share a passion for HTML and CSS.
What is Semantic UI? A UI Component library implemented using a set of specifications designed around natural language. Semantic empowers designers and developers by creating a shared vocabulary for UI.
Primer and Semantic UI can be categorized as "Front-End Frameworks" tools.
"simple" is the primary reason why developers consider Primer over the competitors, whereas "Easy to use and looks elegant" was stated as the key factor in picking Semantic UI.
Primer and Semantic UI are both open source tools. Semantic UI with 45.9K GitHub stars and 4.84K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Primer with 8.42K GitHub stars and 621 GitHub forks.
Pros of Primer
- simple4
- Pretty2
- Maintained by GitHub1
Pros of Semantic UI
- Easy to use and looks elegant157
- Variety of components92
- Themes64
- Has out-of-the-box widgets i would actually use61
- Semantic, duh57
- Its the future44
- Open source42
- Very active development37
- Far less complicated structure31
- Gulp28
- Already has more features than bootstrap9
- Just compare it to Bootstrap and you'll be hooked8
- Clean and consistent markup model7
- UI components7
- Responsiveness6
- Because it is semantic :-D4
- Elegant. clean. readable. maintainable4
- Good-Looking4
- Is big and look really great, nothing like this2
- Consistent2
- Great docs2
- Modular and scalable2
- Easy to use1
- Blends with reactjs1
- Jquery1
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Cons of Primer
Cons of Semantic UI
- Outdated build tool (gulp 3))5
- Poor accessibility support3
- HTML is not semantic (see list component)3
- Javascript is tied to jquery2