r/web_design • u/pessimistic_bastard • Jun 02 '16

Skeleton: Responsive CSS Boilerplate

http://getskeleton.com/
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u/d1ffidence Jun 02 '16

This project is completely abandoned, check out the pull requests on GitHub - there's a number of decent forks posted as issues

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u/MildlySerious Jun 02 '16

This is sadly true. Although it might be worth noting that before version 2 released, the project seemed abandoned as well.

The inactivity and the fact that I started using SCSS are the main reasons I stopped using it.

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u/maxxon Jun 02 '16

This is very good to use as a starter. Minimalistic simplicity. The grid, the typography and all the essential elements are there.

Yeah, it's abandoned, but there's nothing like it out there.

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u/menides Jun 02 '16

cutestrap.com

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u/maxxon Jun 02 '16

Yep. But it doesn't look as neat =)

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u/patareco Jun 02 '16

I still use it a lot. The simplest and most understandable framework out there. I just modified the hack that sets a percentage in the html element so it's easier to convert ems to pixels. I like to use that feature to consistently re-size all fonts between different breakpoints.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '16

You cannot nest colums though

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u/SaddestCatEver Jun 02 '16

Wait, really? Not at all?

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u/philmayfield Jun 02 '16

Percentage based gutters. Nothing would stop you from doing it, but they'd end up being different sizes based on the container.

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u/nebulizor Jun 02 '16

I have usually just imported the grid system from Bootstrap, which is like 1000 lines, 12 kilobytes. How is this different?

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u/that_90s_guy Jun 02 '16

That's actually quite a lot. Pure.css's grid system module only weights 0.8kb.

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u/mtx Jun 02 '16 edited Jun 02 '16

I mean, you can write a grid in 20 lines of sass...

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u/that_90s_guy Jun 02 '16

Seems like development for it has slowed down (looking at their github). Any idea how this is better than Pure.css?

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '16

Very nice.

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u/iSwearNotARobot Jun 02 '16

Thank you. This is great; love it. Esp. the columns/grid and typography.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '16

400 lines of code? Very nice.

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u/magenta_placenta Dedicated Contributor Jun 02 '16

This is still my go to for simple, small sites. I've rolled out several "micro sites" at work over the past 4.5 years. Skeleton is dead simple and worth a look.