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Pure vs Web Components

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Pure
Pure
Stacks36
Followers120
Votes61
Web Components
Web Components
Stacks82
Followers60
Votes0

Pure vs Web Components: What are the differences?

Pure: 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; Web Components: A set of web platform APIs that allow you to create new custom, reusable, encapsulated HTML tags to use in web apps. Web components are a set of web platform APIs that allow you to create new custom, reusable, encapsulated HTML tags to use in web pages and web apps.

Pure and Web Components can be categorized as "Front-End Frameworks" tools.

Pure is an open source tool with 21K GitHub stars and 2.17K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Pure's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Pure has a broader approval, being mentioned in 8 company stacks & 22 developers stacks; compared to Web Components, which is listed in 15 company stacks and 11 developer stacks.

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Advice on Pure, Web Components

Gericke
Gericke

Jul 27, 2020

Needs adviceon.NET Core.NET CoreJavaScriptJavaScriptReactReact

Hi,

I am looking into solutions for reusable components for an existing #MVC project which is build on .NET Core. Currently some functionality is being reuses via JavaScript. I have React experience so I know I can create React components and then reference it on the MVC app. The only problem is I do not know the full extent of it as the current app uses a lot of 3rd party libraries, not sure how that will effect React components. I am currently looking into WebComponents which is also another way for creating reusable components and it is compatible with any JavaScript library based on what I have seen on the website. Also to take in consideration that it should cause a re-write of the system.

So my question is, to future-proof reusable components, which will be best React or Web Components? And which will be more reliable to use with 3rd party libraries?

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Detailed Comparison

Pure
Pure
Web Components
Web Components

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.

Web components are a set of web platform APIs that allow you to create new custom, reusable, encapsulated HTML tags to use in web pages and web apps.

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 <a> and <button> elements;Styles for vertical and horizontal menus, including support for dropdown menus;Useful form alignments that look great on all screen sizes;Various common table styles;An extremely minimalist look that is super-easy to customize;Responsive by default, with a non-responsive option;Easy one-click customization with the Skin Builder;Extremely small file size: 4.5KB minified + gzip
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Followers
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Followers
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Votes
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    Lightweight
  • 10
    Responsive
  • 10
    Simple
  • 9
    Minimalist
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What are some alternatives to Pure, Web Components?

Bootstrap

Bootstrap

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

Foundation

Foundation

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.

Semantic UI

Semantic UI

Semantic empowers designers and developers by creating a shared vocabulary for UI.

Materialize

Materialize

A CSS Framework based on material design.

Material Design for Angular

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.

Material-UI

Material-UI

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

Blazor

Blazor

Blazor is a .NET web framework that runs in any browser. You author Blazor apps using C#/Razor and HTML.

Quasar Framework

Quasar Framework

Build responsive Single Page Apps, SSR Apps, PWAs, Hybrid Mobile Apps and Electron Apps, all using the same codebase!, powered with Vue.

Nuxt.js

Nuxt.js

Nuxt.js presets all the configuration needed to make your development of a Vue.js application enjoyable. You can use Nuxt.js for SSR, SPA, Static Generated, PWA and more.

UIkIt

UIkIt

UIkit gives you a comprehensive collection of HTML, CSS, and JS components which is simple to use, easy to customize and extendable.

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