Frameworks usher in a new era of web development based on encapsulated and interoperable custom elements that extend HTML itself. Built atop these new standards, frameworks makes it easier and faster to create anything from a button to a complete application across desktop, mobile, and beyond.
In this article we have gathered up a list of 15 New Useful Frameworks for Developers, some are more complex than others and offer more in terms of configuration options, widgets and interface options. However, they will allow you to create better things concerning your site. We hope you will discover which one suits your web needs best. Enjoy !
1. HumHub
HumHub is a free social network software and framework built to give you the tools to make teamwork easy and successful. It’s lightweight, powerful and comes with an user-friendly interface. With HumHub you can create your own customized social network, social intranet or huge social enterprise application that really fits your needs. HumHub is completely open- source. With a powerful module system you can extend HumHub by using third party tools, writing your own or connect existing software. Your server, your data, your rules. HumHub is a self- hosted solution and runs on almost every server. You are in the full control of your data.
2. Cylon.js
Cylon.js is a JavaScript framework for robotics and physical computing built on top of Node.js. It provides a simple, but powerful way to create solutions that incorporate multiple, different hardware devices concurrently. Cylon uses the Gort Command Line Interface (CLI) so you can access important features right from the command line. You can scan, connect, update device firmware, and more. Cylon also has its own CLI to generate new robots, adaptors, and drivers.
3. Play Framework
The Play Framework combines productivity and performance making it easy to build scalable web applications with Java and Scala. It’s built on Akka, Play provides predictable and minimal resource consumption (CPU, memory, threads) for highly-scalable applications. Play is developer friendly with a “just hit refresh” workflow and built-in testing support. With Play, applications scale predictably due to a stateless and non-blocking architecture. By being RESTful by default, including assets compilers, JSON & WebSocket support, Play is a perfect fit for modern web & mobile applications.
4. Pakyow
Pakyow is an open-source framework for the modern web. Build working software faster with a development process that remains friendly to both designers and developers. It’s built for getting along. Pakyow empowers the designer with a view-first development process. The views are created in isolation from the back-end app, giving the designer complete control over the front-end through the entire development process. You can create a working, navigable prototype of your app without writing a line of back-end code. Later, add the back-end as a layer on top of the view, leaving the prototype intact.
5. Reveal.js
Reveal.js is a framework for creating HTML presentations with CSS 3D transforms to transition between slides. It even has support for sub-slides that can be accessed from within individual slides. It’s best viewed in a browser with support for CSS 3D transforms but fallbacks are available to make sure your presentation can still be viewed elsewhere.
6. Kickstart
Kickstart is an easy to theme front-end framework that works with either semantic CSS mixins or CSS classes. It includes just one CSS file and one JavaScript file, with no jQuery required. Kickstart targets modern browsers to give you the latest, most robust features. For targeting older browsers, former releases of Kickstart are made available via the documentation. Kickstart is as simple as one JavaScript and one CSS file. No jQuery needed. Native support for node.js and Rails is included.
7. Tachyons
Tachyons is a performance-first CSS framework that includes simple, fast modules and components. It’s easy to get started with and only 6.2kb when gzipped.
8. Pikabu
Pikabu is a framework for creating off-canvas flyout panels. It has simple markup, supports native scrolling, and is fully customizable. No theme, just barebones HTML and CSS. Pikabu is super customizable to your needs. This module is also hosted on Mobify’s CDN.
9. Koutu
Koutu Swiss is a CSS framework for Stylus. It gives you tons of mixins, functions and utilities for faster coding. To use kouto swiss with third party tools likeCodekit or Prepros, you should include kouto swiss on your project by yourself. You can download it on github.
10. DeLorean.js
DeLorean.js is an agnostic JavaScript framework that makes it easy to apply Flux concepts to your user interfaces. It supports unidirectional data flow, automatically listens to data changes and keeps your data updated, and more. It’s framework agnostic, completely, there’s no view framework dependency, built-in React.js integration, easy to use with Flight.js and Ractive.js and probably all others.
11. Fibonacci
The Fibonacci Flexbox Composer is an easy-to-use WYSIWYG tool for creating Flexbox layouts. Just use the intuitive tools to split up the layout boxes and then export the HTML and CSS.
12. Nickel.rs
Nickel.rs is a web application framework for the rust programming language. It includes a custom error handler, JSON handling, and more.
13. Fastshell
FastShell is an opinionated framework built for modern developers that encourages a better workflow. It includes an HTML5 boilerplate, a Sass OOCSS setup, and Gulpjs. JavaScript task running, build processes, autominification and file concatenation, wrapped with an enhanced HTML5 boilerplated framework.
14. Flexible.gs
Flexible.gs is a responsive flexible grid system that has breakpoints for a variety of devices, including tablets and smartphones in both landscape and portrait modes. It’s easy to use and compatible with a variety of mobile and desktop browsers (including IE7+).
15. SassySkeleton
SassySkeleton is a framework for creating better structured styles based on Sass and Compass. It’s main purpose is to serve as a structural proposal to get you started.
