Chota VS sakura

Instead of using commonly used frameworks (like Spring Framework) I preffered to use something that is small and doesn't have "magic" in it. So I've chosen Javalin as a simple web framework, added MongoDB client libraries nad jte as template engine. To show that simple and clean looking apps doesn't need any big JS libraries I've selected chota - one of micro CSS frameworks.

I'm not sure if this comment will be upvoted in this subreddit, but both the most professional, and the easiest, way to accomplish this is to build the form in Vue or React, or even just a bare HTML form and style it if you like with something like chota, and create the rendering using some kind of JavaScript 3d rendering engine like this one.

Chota is a tiny super lightweight, simple to use, lightweight CSS framework where all sets of modules are packed in about 3Kb. It does not require any preprocessors, just add it within your project and start using it. It is very simple to extend due to CSS variables. It comes with plenty of components and utilities, like a magic 12 column grid. It has good semantics, can be switched easily to dark mode, and supports icons out-of-the-box as well. Similar to other lightweight CSS frameworks, remembering different class names is no longer necessary.

- https://github.com/oxalorg/sakura supports extremely easy theming using variables for duotone color scheming. It comes with several existing themes, which can be found in the css folder of this repository.

If you do want to use a framework and get up and running quickly, but you still want to know what's going on and have some ability to customize it, maybe you can start with one of the really minimal CSS frameworks like Milligram or Sakura and then add your own modifications.

I'm a fan of Sakura[0] for this purpose. About the same size, with a recently-added dark version, which can do the OS-choice switch without javascript.

[0] https://oxal.org/projects/sakura/

I agree. That is why I actually just decided to use different css files for different themes in sakura.css [1] (it comes in at 3.8k / ~1.8k gzipped)

I also had friends who didn't want to understand CSS, and adding in media queries, variables, and dark mode support would only just confuse them even more.

[1]: https://github.com/oxalorg/sakura

Shameless plug, but do check out [sakura.css](https://github.com/oxalorg/sakura). Would be happy to hear your feedback on it :)

Ever need style for some plain HTML? Then classless CSS frameworks are for you. I started using these when working on code examples for our Best Date Libraries post. The plain HTML examples looked distractingly ugly, but writing I didn't want to write any CSS. I found Sakura, a classless CSS framework. With just one CSS file my examples looked far more polished. And I didn't have to change the HTML at all.