Top 5 CSS Frameworks to Accelerate Your Front-end Development

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Top 5 CSS Frameworks to Accelerate Your Front-end
Development
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• CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets and
  controls how HTML elements are displayed
  on-screen or any other media.
• Today you can design gorgeous and responsive UI
  without even knowing advanced CSS thanks to the
  CSS frameworks around! According to our team
  of Front End Developers, the key benefit is how
  these frameworks allow them to develop appealing
  and responsive web user interfaces within the
  limited time.

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• In this post we would discuss about top 5 CSS
  frameworks of 2017, but prior to that here are
  some guidelines for choosing the right framework
  for your project.
• Important things to consider before choosing
  your framework

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• Popularity  How popular is the framework?
  Greater popularity infers that there are more
  people involved in the project. Thus, you would
  have more articles, tutorials from the community
  more real-world examples or websites.
• A framework with a larger community also means
  that the framework is future-proof as it is less
  likely to be abandoned.

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• Active development  You would need to watch out
  whether the framework you are going to consider
  is under active development or not? This is
  because a good framework always needs to remain
  updated with the latest web technologies.

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• Maturity  It is also of utmost importance to
  find out the maturity of the framework under
  consideration. This is because relying on a
  framework for your live projects which has not
  yet been used in real-world projects would be
  truly unwise.
• Good documentation  It is very crucial to know
  if the framework offers good documentation which
  is very essential to facilitate the learning
  process.

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• The level of specificity  It is very crucial
  that your chosen framework does not have a high
  level of specificity. This is because it is
  easier and convenient to customize by adding new
  CSS rules rather than overwriting existing ones.
  In case you add new rules on the redundant rules
  then you would be increasing the size of the CSS
  unnecessarily.

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Top 5 popular CSS frameworks with some of their
advantages and disadvantages
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1. Bootstrap

• It is a development framework designed keeping
  mobile-first approach in mind and built using
  HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. It is highly popular
  as it facilitates complex layout in HTML5
  development utilizing 12 column grid layout.
  Moreover, it also provides several web page
  components such as tab, responsive navigation,
  accordion, carousel and much more.

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• Here are the advantages and disadvantages of
  Bootstrap CSS development framework
• Advantages
• This framework provides consistent and appealing
  UI, out-of-the-box.
• It provides lots of free and premium themes,
  templates and plugins.
• It easily fixes CSS compatibility issues and is
  supported by all the major browsers.

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• Disadvantages
• It requires a lot of rewriting of CSS file if you
  want to customize and get diverted from the
  structure of this framework.
• Its complex style leads to heaps of not so
  semantic HTML output.
• The JavaScript in Bootstrap is connected to
  jQuery.

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2. Materialize

• Another popular CSS framework is Materialize and
  it is based on a material design of Android
  operating system. If you like material design
  then this framework is just for you! Moreover,
  this framework provides features such as Waves,
  AutoComplete, Slide Navigation, Chip, etc.

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• Lets take a look at the advantages and
  disadvantages of Materialize CSS framework
• Advantages
• It is best suited for creating material design
  which comes along out-of-the-box.
• It has good documentation and is responsive.
• It also controls the behaviors of UX design
  elements and their visual interactions.

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• Disadvantages
• A few old browsers are not supported by this CSS
  framework.
• The CSS files are very bulky and heavy in this
  framework.

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3 Bulma

• Although Bulma CSS development framework is in
  the beta version, the developer community is
  abuzz with this framework and they are also
  eagerly awaiting the release of version 1.0. This
  framework supports in all the web browsers except
  Internet Explorer browser below version 10.0.
• In case, you are using Bootstrap CSS framework
  then you need not migrate to Bulma framework.

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• Advantages
• The CSS file of this framework is very
  lightweight as well as simple to customize.
• It allows our Front-end development experts to
  build fancy designs with integrated Flexbox.

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• Disadvantages
• The CSS of this framework runs very slow on IE
  web browser.
• It is still in the development phase and final
  version is yet to come.

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4 Pure CSS

• This CSS development framework is highly
  preferred over other CSS development frameworks
  because of its simplicity and very small file
  size. Moreover, it also works well with new
  projects and also includes project build thus
  enabling you to access all your CSS resets with
  this framework.

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• This framework has normalize.css file integrated
  within which enables them to provide better
  cross-browser consistency in-line with modern
  standards.
• The advantages and disadvantages of Pure CSS
  framework is as follows

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• Advantages
• This framework is very lightweight and allows
  addition of another file just by using a
  stylesheet.
• You can also see the explanations of how design
  grid works along with its related features.
• CSS file in this framework is available through
  CDN.
• Development is incredibly faster

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• Disadvantages
• The number of designs and templates are limited.
• The development community is small and thus
  technical support is not readily available.
• The Font Awesome icons do not come with this
  framework by default.

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5. Kube

• This CSS development framework supports all the
  modern web browsers and our CSS developers use
  this great tool to create appealing websites. It
  enables you to focus on website development
  process with its default styles and templates
  that are pretty good.
• When it comes to layout, this CSS framework being
  based on Flexbox provides developers with heaps
  of features and functionalities.

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• Advantages
• The CSS files of this framework are lightweight.
• It provides you with important tools and thus
  enables you to focus on website development.

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• Disadvantages
• At present, you do not have viable Kube CSS
  development community.
• Mass adoption for this CSS development framework
  is not witnessed yet.

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Final Words!

• Every web designer strives to build glitch-free
  functionality and achieve faster development. CSS
  frameworks empower them to achieve both the
  aforementioned criteria and at the same time give
  them full control on the typography of a website.
• Hence, CSS and other front end development trends
  are evolving at a very fast pace.
• Which CSS framework is your personal favorite? We
  would love to know about your pet CSS development
  framework lets start a conversation.

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