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Pure vs Semantic UI: What are the differences?

What is Pure? A set of small, responsive CSS modules that you can use in every web project. Pure is meant to be a starting point for every website or web app. We take care of all the CSS work that every site needs, without making it look cookie-cutter.

What is Semantic UI? A UI Component library implemented using a set of specifications designed around natural language. Semantic empowers designers and developers by creating a shared vocabulary for UI.

Pure and Semantic UI belong to "Front-End Frameworks" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Pure are:

A responsive grid that can be customized to your needs
A solid base built on Normalize.css to fix cross-browser compatibility issues
Consistently styled buttons that work with and

On the other hand, Semantic UI provides the following key features:

Build Responsive Layouts Easier
Self Explanatory
Tag ambivalent

"Lightweight" is the primary reason why developers consider Pure over the competitors, whereas "Easy to use and looks elegant" was stated as the key factor in picking Semantic UI.

Pure and Semantic UI are both open source tools. It seems that Semantic UI with 45.7K GitHub stars and 4.83K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Pure with 20K GitHub stars and 2.06K GitHub forks.

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Pros of Pure

Pros of Semantic UI

14
Lightweight
10
Simple
10
Responsive
9
Minimalist
4
Pure
4
Css
3
Open source
3
Neutral style
2
Consistently
1
It just works
1
Small footprint

157
Easy to use and looks elegant
92
Variety of components
64
Themes
61
Has out-of-the-box widgets i would actually use
57
Semantic, duh
44
Its the future
42
Open source
37
Very active development
31
Far less complicated structure
28
Gulp
9
Already has more features than bootstrap
8
Just compare it to Bootstrap and you'll be hooked
7
Clean and consistent markup model
7
UI components
6
Responsiveness
4
Because it is semantic :-D
4
Elegant. clean. readable. maintainable
4
Good-Looking
2
Is big and look really great, nothing like this
2
Consistent
2
Great docs
2
Modular and scalable
1
Easy to use
1
Blends with reactjs
1
Jquery

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Cons of Pure

Cons of Semantic UI

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5
Outdated build tool (gulp 3))
3
Poor accessibility support
3
HTML is not semantic (see list component)
2
Javascript is tied to jquery

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What is Pure?

Pure is meant to be a starting point for every website or web app. We take care of all the CSS work that every site needs, without making it look cookie-cutter.

What is Semantic UI?

Semantic empowers designers and developers by creating a shared vocabulary for UI.

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What companies use Semantic UI?

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What tools integrate with Pure?

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What are some alternatives to Pure and Semantic UI?

Bootstrap

Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.

Material Design for Angular

Material Design is a specification for a unified system of visual, motion, and interaction design that adapts across different devices. Our goal is to deliver a lean, lightweight set of AngularJS-native UI elements that implement the material design system for use in Angular SPAs.

Animate.css

It is a bunch of cool, fun, and cross-browser animations for you to use in your projects. Great for emphasis, home pages, sliders, and general just-add-water-awesomeness.

Tailwind CSS

Tailwind is different from frameworks like Bootstrap, Foundation, or Bulma in that it's not a UI kit. It doesn't have a default theme, and there are no build-in UI components. It comes with a menu of predesigned widgets to build your site with, but doesn't impose design decisions that are difficult to undo.

Material-UI

Material UI is a library of React UI components that implements Google's Material Design.

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