Oat – Ultra-lightweight, zero dependency, semantic HTML, CSS, JS UI library (oat.ink)

Nice job! Clicked tru my obscure mobile firefox and all worked well!

Amazing! I recently started building something similar for the same reasons, but more out of frustration rather than out of desire. I'll have to give this one a try and see if it fills the need.

I love it. We need to see more of this.

Great work! PicoCSS feels a bit too minimalist at times. This looks like a better balance of lightweight and functional.

Thank you for this, can’t wait to use. Minimalism at its best.

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My initial reaction was that I have to use this just because of the buzzword density in the title. But after reading up, it looks like the author was pretty successful in moving the bloat from code to announcement title. I'll give this a try!

This is kind of misleading. It says it's an HTML UI library, then it says HTML + CSS, and then it says it also includes JavaScript. Why is this better than, say, DaisyUI?

5 day old repo, 2000 stars on GitHub, 400 total weekly downloads on npm. Frontpage of hacker news with a bunch of weird comments. Moderation has been lacking recently.

This looks very very cool. Will definitely look in to using this for more static internal tools!

Claims no classes but uses data- attributes and also classes (just look at the button example…)

Looks okay, but I don’t see why to use this over something like Marx if all you need is to not have bare browser default styling.

The motivating blog post[1] linked from the front page is probably going to generate a more interesting discussion than the framework itself.

As someone who has to deal with both angular and nextjs for different (but overlapping) stacks at work, I find myself increasingly sympathetic to this viewpoint.

[1]: https://nadh.in/blog/javascript-ecosystem-software-developme...

This does not even need a LLM skill, just load the whole code up in context, so efficient.

Seems pretty unresponsive to me. I'm getting at least half a second of delay before the accordion, drop-down, or switch do anything. Chrome on Windows.

should call it oatmilk for max exposure

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Surprised that none of the comments here are comparing this to Bootstrap.

The code example doesn't render for me.

Thank you testing this on older browsers before releasing. This is truly an ultra minimal library - https://ibb.co/DDGmLYdg, https://ibb.co/h1WQG3GK

No Datepicker?

Reminds me of what bootstrap [1] was like around a decade ago. It's gotten quite a bit bloated since then though.

1. https://getbootstrap.com/

If nothing else, it's refreshing to see nicely modern CSS and JS formatted and laid out in a legible manner. https://github.com/knadh/oat/tree/master/src

There’s a ton of semantic drop in css libraries similar to this. Love seeing new ones. Quality varies wildly but this site shows 50+ drop in stylesheets for those writing semantic html: https://dohliam.github.io/dropin-minimal-css/

People need to stop with these stupid 12 column grids and learn how grid and flex work. Other elements are ok but this is just stupid