The world of Awesome CSS Frameworks

In February 2018 I joined Dev.to 😎 and also I found the amazing Awesome CSS Frameworks. I was in love with all the world that existed apart Boostrap.

I forked that repo and I created my own extensive list, with my style and organized in a way I can search easily the new CSS Framework I'd like to meet.

That way born Gabo's Awesome CSS Frameworks and UI Libraries.

After 4 years maintaining this repo I want to share some info may be interested for Web & React Developers (⭐s from January 2022):

If you need a CSS Framework/Framework

This TOP 5 are very good candidates to work with:

• Bootstrap - 155K⭐
• Tailwind CSS - 51K⭐
• Bulma - 45K⭐
• Materialize - 39K⭐
• Foundation - 29K⭐

If you are into React

Then the TOP 5 Libs is:

• Ant Design - 77K⭐
• Material-UI - 74K⭐
• Chakra UI - 23K⭐
• react virtualized - 23K⭐
• React-Bootstrap - 20K⭐ (Oh yeah! Bootstrap is a TOP 5 here too)

Super Star repos with no recent updates

Interesting all the stars with no recent updates:

• Semantic UI - 50K⭐ - Last update: October 2018
• normalize.css - 46K⭐ - Last update: November 2018
• Material Design Lite - 32K⭐ - Last update: June 2017
• Skeleton - 18K⭐ - Last update: December 2014 (Wow! Since 2014!)

Do you need a Base/Reset

If I ignore the normalize.css 46K⭐ (because no recent updates), then you can go with:

• Pure - 22K⭐
• Shoelace.css - 6K⭐
• sanitize.css - 4.7K⭐

What if you need a light one

Well, in this case I can recommend you:

• Spectre.css - 11K⭐ - ~10KB gzipped
• Milligram - 9.6K⭐ - 2kb gzipped!
• Water.css - 6.7K⭐ - 3.27 kb
• BassCSS - 5.7K⭐ - 2.13 KB

Do you need to create HTML emails

No problem. There are frameworks for you too:

• MJML - 13K⭐
• Foundation for Emails 2 - Formerly Ink - 7.6K⭐

If you need a unique and special design

You can go with these special frameworks:

• NES.css - 18K⭐ - Your web like a NES-style (8bit-like)
• 98.css - 6.3K⭐ - Like an old Windows
• Doodle CSS - 631⭐ - A simple hand drawn theme

From Big companies

Finally, in the Design Systems era, I want to show you the ones from well known companies:

• Fluent UI - 13K⭐ by Microsoft
• Evergreen - 11K⭐ by Segment
• Primer - 11K⭐ by GitHub
• Clarity Design System - 6.4K⭐ by VMWare
• Carbon Design System - 5.1K⭐ by IBM

A lot of repos to take a look, no?
And these are just a few. In my list you can check a lot of CSS Frameworks and UI Libraries.

Did I miss one? Just comment it so I can fix it.

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