The front-end developer comes for the very first time in client's project faces the problem of choosing a Best CSS framework in 2018. You can easily find more than 50 frameworks, each of which is good for something. But which one suits you? In this article we'll guide you through most popular CSS frameworks and concentrate on the main. 2018 year promises the new era and new approach in HTML coding and entire web development after flexboxes. But first, what to choose between mobile app and website?
And more importantly has following options:
1. Stable.
2. Easy-customizable.
3. Lightweight.
4. Adaptive.
5. Rich functionality.
Building web projects or business websites of varying complexity, we at Merehead faced the similar problem; and fortunately successfully solved it. Now it's our turn to share experience and find out what CSS framework to use for a website or complex application.
#5. Materialize CSS
Built relying on Google material
graphic design philosophy. Has a unique
color scheme,
animations, and gradients.
Pros:
1. Fascinating functional
Cons:
1. Conflicts and problems with almost every Javascript plugin.
Such a wide range of exciting animations you are unlikely to see in any other framework. However, its cons outweigh the pros. Highly likely it won't work at all with your Wordpress favorite plugins.
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#4. Pure CSS by Yahoo
Not every frontend developer knows about Pure CSS by Yahoo, but in vain. We called it a
hidden treasure in the entire front-end.
Yahoo represented it a few years ago. Despite the fact that they have already lost positions as a "search engine" company a long time ago compared with Google. But the things with this CSS framework not so unambiguous.
Pros:
1. Just 3.8Kb, and you can enjoy instant web page loads. If your aim is mobile devices users, then Pure should be your choice. Almost all users will be grateful to you for the time load speed.
2. Flexible, up to 24-columns grid(!)
Cons:
1. Poor functional.
PureCSS was built exactly as the core for CSS. With it help you can create any grid system that you wish. Easy to make a responsive website. Poor functionality is easily solved when you have some experience coding on JavaScript or integrating 3rd-party plugins.
#3. Bootstrap 3
Everyone has heard about Bootstrap, right? One of the most popular CSS frameworks among
web design companies. Ask any user interface developer - "why do you use it?" and you unlikely to hear a clear answer. Let's discover its strengths, and why it and
trendy logo design is preferred by everyone in 2017, 2016 and highly likely it will be as
successful in 2018 as well.
Was developed by Twitter for its internal needs and introduced later to the whole world in 2011. Twitter actually built their entire social network use it. Therefore it is the most popular, stable and in the right usage lightweight framework for React and Angular.JS.
Pros:
1. Easy-customizable
2. Rich functionality
3. Classic 12-column grid
4. Very popular. Huge CDN vendors offer a free Bootstrap download from their servers. It means instant web page loads (caching).
Cons:
1. Very popular. All animation, transitions, icons, styles have long been seen. They are bored to others.
Appearance is the bottleneck of Bootstrap. You have 2 options how to solve this - get known with web design trends 2020. Another way just cut the functionality. In Merehead approach used the only 12-columns grid system without other styles. The answer is simple - we use only custom design and build it from scratch. It's much faster than customizing the ready classes. Additionally, 3rd-party plugins integration seamless. Cross-conflict and error had never existed.
