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Top Bootstrap Alternatives

Arpit on August 22, 2020

These days, the number one requirement of any website is to run correctly on all kinds of devices (especially mobiles). For that end, Bootstrap has...
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James Cox • Edited

For me Mateiral UI and its documentation is my preferred component library!

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John Munsch

I tried using Material for a project but ended up not loving it because something I consider fairly basic was missing and that was sizes. I didn't see any classes for adjusting the size of buttons, inputs, or other controls. That's something that is fairly basic for Bootstrap but I did not find in Material.

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James Cox

I can definitely see that. Material UI actually gives you several ways you can change a component's style. I do agree it's more complex than Bootstrap. But I think that once you learn how to customize components, it looks better than Boostrap. But that's my opinion of course!

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ma2web

Materal ui Buttons has a size property with small, large and medium value

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Juan F Gonzalez

Also worth checking out Tachyons.io, it's an Open Source design system that one can custom to fit the needs.

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MrAnyx

Actually, Tailwind CSS is a little bit more than just a css framework. After prototyping you website using the classes. But, whene everything is finished, you can compile all you project to reduce the number of classes and create reusable classes and, in other words, reusable components.

You should take a look at this video : youtu.be/D6-g6JgiUIs

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Kai Oswald

Well, this technically can be done with any CSS, not just tailwind. The class purging is done by PurgeCSS

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Nicolás Omar González Passerino

An alternative I've using the last months has been Semantic UI, it has a good amount of components with good variations and easy integration with the app.
It is a option to have in mind.

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Dylan Anderson

Unfortunately it looks like development on Semantic has stopped or stalled. There's a somewhat more active community fork here: github.com/fomantic/Fomantic-UI

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Nicolás Omar González Passerino

Thanks Dylan, i will give it a look. Is kind of sad that the project has been without much news lately, but it still has good material to work with

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Paul

Add CodyFrame to the list. They have a ton of pre-built components too.

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Louis Low

Aww... Nostalgic. A very good tool.

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huncyrus

In older time I used skeleton and for react - because how easy to use with - material UI.

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I would like to add a little extra thinking for it: the overhead and the modularity. Tailwind is populer because you can actually really narrow down the structure and size. Most of the people do not like bootstrap or zurb, but when you just using the small parts, what your project really needs, then they could be pretty small also.
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Nick F

I was thinking that PureCSS is not maintained, but looks like they have regrouped and created a 2.0 release this year. Great to see, a few years back I used PureCSS on a small project and it was a great fit. Otherwise, Bootstrap really solves all my needs and I enjoy using it.

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sabbir2609 • Edited

I think HalfMoon is best alternative.

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Rainer Sulzbach

I'm basically a backend developer. But for my frontend tries I'm using UIKit. Seems to fit most of my needs. Here it is UIKit

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Louis Low • Edited

Also add Yogurt on the list, please. A very powerful nano crafting tool for frontend development.

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Felix Ramirez

Excellent comparison