Frameworks

A list of frameworks, in no particular order...

  • Bootstrap: the most popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.
  • Zurb Foundation: the most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world.
  • Materialize: a modern responsive front-end framework based on Material Design. Low cost course Responsive Design with NEW Materialize
  • INK: Create responsive web interfaces quick and efficiently. Sass
  • Semantic UI: structured around natural language conventions to make development more intuitive. Tuts+ Premium course: Getting Started with Semantic UI
  • Pure: a set of small, responsive CSS modules that you can use in every web project.
  • Cardinal CSS: a small “mobile first” CSS framework for front-end developers who build responsive web applications. Less
  • HTML5 Boilerplate: the web’s most popular front-end template.
  • Skeleton: a small collection of CSS files that can help you rapidly develop sites that look beautiful at any size, be it a 17" laptop screen or an iPhone.
  • jQuery UI: a curated set of user interface interactions, effects, widgets, and themes built on top of the jQuery JavaScript Library
  • Yui Framework: a free, open source JavaScript and CSS library for building richly interactive web applications.
  • Unsemantic: a fluid grid system that is the successor to the 960 Grid System.
  • YAML4: a modular CSS framework for truly flexible, accessible and responsive websites.
  • UIkit: A lightweight and modular front-end framework for developing fast and powerful web interfaces.
  • Bijou: a small (less than 2 KiB) CSS framework.
  • Toast: insane, no-nonsense CSS grid
  • Neat: A lightweight and flexible Sass grid.
  • Less Framework: a CSS grid system for designing adaptive websites; containing 4 layouts and 3 sets of typography presets, all based on a single grid.
  • Metro UI CSS: a set of styles to create a site with an interface similar to Windows 8.

  • jQuery Mobile: HTML5-based user interface system designed to make responsive web sites and apps that are accessible on all smartphone, tablet and desktop devices
  • Gantry Framework: a comprehensive set of building blocks to enable the rapid development and realization of a design into a flexible and powerful web platform theme for Joomla! & WordPress.

  • Backbone.js: gives structure to web applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events
  • Ember.js: a framework for creating ambitious web applications
  • Enact: An app development framework built atop React that’s easy to use, performant and customizable.
  • Meteor: an open-source platform for building top-quality web apps in a fraction of the time

  • Laravel: the PHP framework for web artisans
  • CakePHP: makes building web applications simpler, faster and require less code
  • Laminas Project: the enterprise-ready PHP Framework and components
  • FuelPHP: a simple, flexible, community driven PHP 5.3+ framework
  • Symfony: a set of reusable PHP components, and a PHP framework for web projects
  • li₃: the fast, flexible and most RAD development framework for PHP
  • Phalcon: a web framework implemented as a C extension offering high performance and lower resource consumption