Ask HN: No JavaScript web UI framework?

7 points by _448 3y ago ↗ HN

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

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fastball 3y ago ↗

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

aerio 3y 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.

ano88888 3y ago ↗

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

solardev 3y ago ↗

They solve different problems

surprisetalk 3y 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

jjice 3y 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.

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factorialboy 3y ago ↗

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

el_hacker 3y 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.