In this article, I will share a little about the use of the UIKit framework. This framework is often considered a solid alternative to create responsive and modern web designs without having to spend a lot of time.
What is UIkit?
UIkit is a CSS framework designed to help developers create clean, responsive, and attractive website displays without having to write a lot of code from scratch. With UIkit, you can access various ready-made interface components, such as buttons, forms, navigation, and others, all of which are neatly arranged and easy to customize.
Interestingly, UIkit is modular. This means that you can choose which components you want to use and load them as needed, so that your website files remain light and fast. This is a plus for those of you who care about site performance.
UIKit has the following tagline:
A lightweight and modular front-end framework, for developing fast and powerful web interfaces.
In accordance with its tagline, UIKit is very light to use and very powerful. In creating a website, especially the front-end, we usually use various types of JavaScript libraries, where the use of these libraries is used for functionality or to beautify the appearance with the addition of animations. So the more libraries we use, the more it will affect the loading performance of the website we create.
By using the UIKit framework to build a website, we can reduce the performance load on our website without reducing the aesthetic design on the website because UIKit has provided various supporting components where these components are often used as libraries for JavaScript, especially jQuery. The point is that in using this framework we can minimize the use of jQuery.
I use this framework for several projects that I have worked on, including my own personal website (yudi.rukreap.com) built using this framework.
Advantages of UIkit
Lightweight and Fast
UIkit is quite lightweight, so websites built with this framework can load faster. The features in UIkit are also not excessive, so there is not much additional load on the website.Easy to Use
If you are just starting to learn CSS or JavaScript, UIkit will be very helpful. The documentation is complete and clear, so you can quickly understand how each component works and how to integrate it into your project.Modern and Minimalist Design
UIkit has a clean and modern design, perfect for those of you who want to create a website with a professional appearance without any hassle. The default appearance is also quite good, so you don't need much customization.Flexible Customization
UIkit is very flexible. You can customize almost every aspect of the existing components, from color, size, to animation, simply by changing the Sass variables.
UIkit Disadvantages
Smaller Population
Although UIkit is quite popular among web developers, compared to other frameworks such as Bootstrap, UIkit still has a smaller community. This can mean fewer tutorials, plugins, or solutions from the community available if you run into problems.Less Well-Known in the Web Development World
UIkit is not as popular as Bootstrap or Tailwind CSS. So, if you work in a large team or in a company that prefers to use a very common framework, UIkit may not be your first choice.
To be able to use the UIKit framework, you can visit the website directly at getuikit.com.
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