The Best CSS Frameworks

Based on github stars

Top 40 Most Popular CSS Frameworks
by number of GitHub stars

 

Rank Change 2022 Dec Project Features Stars Activity Rating
1 - 1 Bootstrap General Purpose SCSS 165,996 9.5 25.28%
2 - 2 Tailwind CSS Speciallized CSS PostCSS 73,888 9.4 11.25%
3 ↑ 4 normalize.css Base Reset Normalize CSS 51,236 0.0 7.80%
4 ↓ 3 Semantic UI General Purpose LESS 50,862 1.8 7.75%
5 - 5 Bulma General Purpose SASS 47,698 5.6 7.26%
6 - 6 Materialize Material Design SCSS 38,841 0.0 5.91%
7 - 7 Foundation General Purpose SCSS 29,542 7.8 4.50%
8 - 8 Pure Lightweight CSS 23,220 0.0 3.54%
9 - 9 NES.css Speciallized SCSS 20,024 0.0 3.05%
10 - 10 UI kit General Purpose SCSS LESS 17,979 9.2 2.74%
11 - 11 Material Components Web Material Design SCSS 16,990 8.8 2.59%
12 - 12 Primer General Purpose SCSS 12,339 8.7 1.88%
13 - 13 tachyons General Purpose CSS 11,504 0.0 1.75%
14 - 14 Spectre.css General Purpose SCSS 11,238 0.0 1.71%
15 - 15 Milligram Lightweight SCSS 10,112 0.0 1.54%
16 - 16 98.css Speciallized CSS 8,302 0.0 1.26%
17 - 17 Water.css Class-less CSS 7,989 0.0 1.22%
18 - 18 Tufte CSS Speciallized CSS 5,579 0.0 0.85%
19 ↑ 20 modern-normalize Base Reset Normalize CSS 5,484 0.0 0.84%
20 ↓ 19 sanitize.css Base Reset Normalize CSS 5,112 0.0 0.78%
21 - 21 Gutenberg Speciallized SCSS 4,687 4.5 0.71%
22 - 22 MUI Material Design SCSS 4,524 0.0 0.69%
23 ↑ 24 sakura Class-less SCSS 3,820 0.0 0.58%
24 ↓ 23 Picnic CSS Lightweight SCSS 3,717 4.4 0.57%
25 - 25 Fomantic-UI General Purpose LESS 3,397 7.0 0.52%
26 ↑ 27 minireset.css Base Reset Normalize SASS 2,719 0.0 0.41%
27 ↑ 28 Wing Lightweight Stylus 2,010 0.0 0.31%
28 ↑ 29 ress Base Reset Normalize CSS 1,964 0.0 0.30%
29 ↑ 30 inuitcss Base Reset Normalize SCSS 1,854 0.0 0.28%
30 ↑ 31 Marx Class-less SCSS Stylus 1,654 0.0 0.25%
31 ↑↑ 33 Tacit Class-less SCSS 1,610 0.0 0.25%
32 - 32 Blaze UI General Purpose SCSS 1,548 0.0 0.24%
33 ↑ 34 awsm.css Class-less SCSS 1,482 0.0 0.23%
34 ↑↑↑ 37 Cirrus General Purpose CSS 1,281 0.0 0.20%
35 ↑↑↑ 38 Chota Lightweight CSS 1,277 0.0 0.19%
36 ↓ 35 Base General Purpose SCSS LESS 1,243 0.0 0.19%
37 ↓ 36 Propeller Material Design SCSS 1,134 0.0 0.17%
38 ↑ 39 Bojler Speciallized SCSS 1,010 0.0 0.15%
39 ↑ 40 turretcss General Purpose CSS 803 0.0 0.12%
40 ↑ 41 PatternFly General Purpose SCSS LESS 648 9.3 0.10%
  • Rating - the percentage of stars of a particular project from the total number.
  • Activity - a relative number between 0 and 10 representing the commits activity of a project.
    9+ meaning that the project is amongst the top 10% of most actively developed projects.
    5+ meaning that the project is amongst the top 50% of most active projects.

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