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Pure vs Toolkit: What are the differences?
Developers describe Pure as "A set of small, responsive CSS modules that you can use in every web project". Pure is meant to be a starting point for every website or web app. We take care of all the CSS work that every site needs, without making it look cookie-cutter. On the other hand, Toolkit is detailed as "Extensible front-end HTML, CSS, and JavaScript user interface components for the responsive, mobile, and modern web". Toolkit makes use of the latest and greatest technology. This includes HTML5 for semantics, CSS3 for animations and styles, Sass for CSS pre-processing, Gulp for task and package management, and powerful new browser APIs for the JavaScript layer.
Pure and Toolkit can be primarily classified as "Front-End Frameworks" tools.
Some of the features offered by Pure are:
- A responsive grid that can be customized to your needs
- A solid base built on Normalize.css to fix cross-browser compatibility issues
- Consistently styled buttons that work with and
On the other hand, Toolkit provides the following key features:
- Mobile First
- Responsive Design
- Semantic Markup
Pure and Toolkit are both open source tools. Pure with 20.1K GitHub stars and 2.07K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Toolkit with 1.11K GitHub stars and 121 GitHub forks.
Pros of Pure
- Lightweight14
- Simple10
- Responsive10
- Minimalist9
- Pure4
- Css4
- Open source3
- Neutral style3
- Consistently2
- It just works1
- Small footprint1