Ask HN: No JavaScript web UI framework?

7 points_4482y ago8 comments

Please could you recommend to a novice web developer a web UI framework for web browsers without JavaScript support?

8 comments

surprisetalk2y ago

I've enjoyed bulma in the past:

[1] https://bulma.io

There are a bunch of others I haven't used in a long time:

[2] https://getbootstrap.com

[3] https://get.foundation

Many people also like tailwind, but it's very opinionated:

[4] https://tailwindui.com

jjice2y ago

+1 for Bulma. I'm a backend developer but when I was introduced to Bulma I finally felt like I could make a not completely ugly frontend to get something simple done.

el_hacker2y ago

If you are new to development, I advise you to do not to use any framework, give time to yourself use vanilla CSS and JavaScript so you will learn them the right way. I know some people who can't differentiate between Tailwind classes and HTML/CSS, they was thinking that Tailwind is CSS because they directly started learning it first, that's not the right way in my opinion.

fastball2y ago

Without Javascript, a "web UI framework" is effectively just a CSS framework.

aerio2y ago

Yeah, it's what early bootstrap was. Html "components" with accompanying CSS, as well as more utility CSS akin to tailwind without all the fluff.

ano888882y ago

no thanks. javascript is simply better than CSS framework and less messy

solardev2y ago

They solve different problems

factorialboy2y ago

Milligram (https://milligram.io/) meets my minimalist fetish.

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