Freewall vs Masonry

Freewall

Freewall is a cross-browser and responsive jQuery plugin to help you create grid, image and masonry layouts for desktop, mobile, and tablet... (by kombai)

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Masonry

:love_hotel: Cascading grid layout plugin (by desandro)

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Freewall		Masonry
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-	Mentions	41
1,845	Stars	16,231
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
almost 4 years ago	Latest Commit	4 months ago
HTML	Language	HTML
MIT License	License	MIT License

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Freewall

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Masonry

Posts with mentions or reviews of Masonry. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-28.

Implementing Masonry Grid with HTML, CSS, and JS
2 projects | dev.to | 28 Apr 2024
Help us invent CSS Grid Level 3, a.k.a. "Masonry" layout – WebKit
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Apr 2024

Probably influenced by the most popular JavaScript library for achieving this type of layout, Masonry[0]. The author notes at the end of the article:
> But do expect the name of this value to change in the future. And perhaps prepare for a future where we call this “columnar grid” or “Grid Level 3” instead of “Masonry”.
[0] https://masonry.desandro.com/
JavaScript Libraries That You Should Know
8 projects | dev.to | 19 Mar 2024

13. Masonry
How do I display a list of divs with different sizes like the picture below. I found a component that can do this with images but I want the elements to be divs.
1 project | /r/css | 22 Jun 2023

To learn more about the Masonry library and explore its documentation and examples, you can visit the official website: Masonry.
Optimised for mobile & tablet but desktop looks off – any ideas / proposals?
1 project | /r/web_design | 30 May 2023

Masonry is just what you need. There are libraries like this that you can utilize for this purpose.
Was playing the Titanfall campaign last night and thought it might be fun to fold spacetime
1 project | /r/Unity3D | 17 May 2023

Thank you! I purchased a Masonry (https://masonry.desandro.com/) license and built off of one of the layouts. Site runs on a Lucee server and content is populated from MySQL tables. I am using various open source jquery plug-ins for pop-ups and what not.
Creating this dynamic grid layout
1 project | /r/web_design | 15 Apr 2023
How the heck does this work?
3 projects | /r/webdev | 23 Mar 2023

It’s called a masonry layout. It is a pain in the ass to implement but there are javascript libraries like Masonry.
Creating CSS masonry-style layouts
2 projects | dev.to | 22 Mar 2023

With no native CSS grid support for masonry layouts, developers relied on using libraries such as Masonry.js or Brick.js to replicate this visual design. These libraries can accomplish masonry-style layouts without CSS by using JavaScript to manipulate the DOM, then placing each element within the appropriate spaces.
Any idea how to make this layout using grid or layout? My code in the comments
3 projects | /r/css | 7 Feb 2023