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by FractalNerve 4081 days ago
I initially thought, hey great that's something you simply include and have a base layout that's a great starting point for any type of project, but after looking through the document I realized that it comes with as many "modules" as bootstrap or other full-blown "css-frameworks". Wish they just made a better and more consize and proven {normalize.css reset.css base.css}

Some of the styles are nice and ready to copy though, ie. the table styles, but not sure what the intention of this project is.

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→ What lightweight css-starter-kit would you choose for any of your upcoming projects? Other than reset.css or normalize.css of course :)

I don't like bootstrap and similar, because it's just too large and most people end up using all of the classes and the whole javascript instead of only the stuff they need. Bootstrap is absolutely great for projects that quickly need a whole "UI Theme" fix.

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Skeleton (http://getskeleton.com) is pretty nice, as lightweight CSS frameworks go.
If you're looking for a simple, lightweight alternative to bootstrap, check out PureCSS by Yahoo:

http://purecss.io/

I like Nicolas Gallagher's SUIT CSS style foundation, utilities and components. https://suitcss.github.io/
That's completely new to me, but it looks nice. Thank you. I only knew about stylus, http://learnboost.github.io/stylus/ but that's just a preprocessor.