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Semantic UI vs Topcoat: What are the differences?
Developers describe Semantic UI as "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. On the other hand, Topcoat is detailed as "CSS for clean and fast web apps". TopCoat is made up of base controls, platform specific styles, themes and a build script to stitch them all together.
Semantic UI and Topcoat can be categorized as "Front-End Frameworks" tools.
Some of the features offered by Semantic UI are:
- Build Responsive Layouts Easier
- Self Explanatory
- Tag ambivalent
On the other hand, Topcoat provides the following key features:
- Components Galore
- Themeable
- BEM Architecture
"Easy to use and looks elegant" is the primary reason why developers consider Semantic UI over the competitors, whereas "Open source" was stated as the key factor in picking Topcoat.
Semantic UI and Topcoat are both open source tools. Semantic UI with 45.9K GitHub stars and 4.84K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Topcoat with 4.31K GitHub stars and 417 GitHub forks.
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
Pros of Topcoat
- Open source3
- Backed by Adobe3
- Pretty2
- Themeable2
- BEM Architecture1
- Lightweight1
- Fast1
- Clean1
- PSD included1
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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- Outdated build tool (gulp 3))5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