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Toolkit vs Topcoat: What are the differences?

Toolkit: 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; Topcoat: 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.

Toolkit and Topcoat can be primarily classified as "Front-End Frameworks" tools.

Some of the features offered by Toolkit are:

  • Mobile First
  • Responsive Design
  • Semantic Markup

On the other hand, Topcoat provides the following key features:

  • Components Galore
  • Themeable
  • BEM Architecture

Toolkit and Topcoat are both open source tools. It seems that Topcoat with 4.31K GitHub stars and 417 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Toolkit with 1.11K GitHub stars and 121 GitHub forks.

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    What is Toolkit?

    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.

    What is Topcoat?

    TopCoat is made up of base controls, platform specific styles, themes and a build script to stitch them all together.

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