Top 10 Front-End Development Frameworks

(Editor’s note: purely for reasons of length and readability, this article is the first of two parts. This one focuses on the Bootstrap family, more will be profiled in the second part.) As the Web matures and the range of mobile devices we use to access it rapidly grows, our jobs as web designers and developers get considerably more complicated. A decade ago things were much simpler. Then, it was almost certain that most of our users were visiting our sites while sitting at their desk, looking at a large monitor. 960 pixels was more or less considered as a good width for a web page. Our main care was dealing with the dozen or so desktop browsers and jumping through a few extra browser hacks to support quirky old versions of Internet Explorer. Soon, more people will be accessing the Web on their mobile and alternate devices than on a desktop computer. One of the primary strategies we use when we deal with unknown viewport size is the so-called responsive web design. 1. 2. 3. 4.

Top 10 Front-End Development Frameworks: Part 2 In the first part of this article we’ve seen some nice frameworks all related to Bootstrap. If you are weary of all this Bootstrap, take a deep breath and get ready for something really different. Let’s start with the main competitor of Bootstrap – Foundation. 5. Foundation Foundation is a powerful, feature-rich, responsive front-end framework. Foundation has a 12-column flexible, nestable grid powerful enough to let you create rapidly multi-device layouts. The framework also offers many useful add-ons. Stencils – all UI elements available in Foundation in a form of Omnigraffle stencils and vector PDFs for building wireframes and mock-ups faster and more easily.HTML Templates – handy, ready to go layouts for you to quickly start from and build on. As you can see, Foundation is like a treasure-house for web developers/designers. 6. GroundworkCSS is a new, fresh addition to the front-end frameworks family. 7. 8. 10. Conclusion Comments on this article are closed.

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