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The best UIkit alternatives

3 tools that do a similar job to UIkit, 3 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.

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UIkit

A lightweight CSS and JavaScript framework for building fast web interfaces.

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    Bootstrap

    Open source · MIT · ★ 175k

    A free front-end toolkit of ready-made CSS and JavaScript for building responsive websites.

    Best for: Developers building responsive websites or web app interfaces quickly; Teams that want a common design system with ready-made components

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    Tailwind CSS

    Open source · MIT · ★ 98.3k

    A utility-first CSS framework for building custom user interfaces quickly.

    Best for: Web developers who build their own interfaces and want to avoid writing large custom stylesheets; Teams that want a consistent set of design utilities across a project

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    Bulma

    Open source · MIT · ★ 50k

    A CSS framework built on Flexbox that gives you styled layout and UI classes.

    Best for: Developers who want a quick, consistent styling baseline for a web page; Projects that already have their own JavaScript and only need a style layer

How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to UIkit. We don't take payment for placement.