Bootstrap alternatives, which one do you prefer and why?

IMRC21 Jul 12

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Chinmay Joshi

Jul 12

My personal favourite CSS library is Bootstrap. Apart from that, I have worked on a few more CSS frameworks.

Tachyons - link

Very lightweight.
Highly adaptable and customizable. You can definitely build your design system on top of Tachyons.
A wide range of components. And a huge number of color combinations.
Supports Grid system. Mobile friendly.
It is super easy to build components with modern JS frameworks. Ex: React.
CSS and layout debugging.

Semantic UI - link

Huge documentation with lots of examples.
Uses Flexbox.
Wide range of components. Advanced framework with functional components.
Adaptive to modern JS frameworks. Works amazing with React, Meteor, Angular and Ember.
Preprocessor support - LESS.
Built-in three themes - Default, GitHub and Material.
Built-in icons set. Over 900 icons from FontAwesome.
Responsive.

Pure - link

Lightweight.
Good documentation.
Responsive.
Predefined set of themes.
Highly customizable.

All the above CSS frameworks are open source. And they are widely popular in the community. Other than these there are multiple frameworks available. But I have not used them that much. But here you go,