Research potential CSS frameworks

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Any starter kit will need to have at the very least basic styling.

I'd like to evaluate existing CSS frameworks / base styles to see if they would be suitable for this project (as opposed to building everything from scratch).

I believe any CSS framework used should:

• Be based on standard CSS (no preprocessors or css-in-js)
• Be lightweight
• Be themable

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CSS Frameworks

I checked out a bunch of the most popular css frameworks on GitHub to see what might be useful for this project:

Framework	Suitable	Notes
bootstrap	✔️	built with sass but think it can be used as pure css
Tailwind CSS	❌	best used with build tools
Bulma	✔️
Materialize	❌	Too outdated
NES.css	❌	not appropriate
pico	✔️	very simple but still pretty
spectre	❌	Feels a little outdated, requries build step for theming
milligram	❌	Feels outdated, no obvious theming
Windi CSS	❌	No future updated
MUI	❌	Feels outdated, build step for theming
sakura	❌	build step required for theming
PaperCSS	❌	not appropriate
new.css	✔️	Very simple classless styles
UnoCSS	❌	Requires a lot of tooling
MVP.css	✔️	Simple classless css
Simple.css	✔️	Simple classless css
Tacit	✔️	Suitable but feels outdated
Pure	❌	No obvious theming option
Picnic CSS	❌	No obvious theming option
Chota	✔️	Could be a good fit
Foundation	❌	Think it needs sass for theming
UIkit	❌	Uses build step for theming
open-props	❌	JS based
HiQ	❌	Best used with PostCSS build step
Vanilla Framework	❌	Theming based on sass build step
Cirrus	❌	Theming based on sass build step
Blaze Atoms	✔️	Has a pretty cool tool to generate themes based on css variables
Formantic-UI	❌	Theming has build step
Spruce CSS	❌	Seems, pretty modern lightweight, but needs sass to be more useful