Case Study between Foundation, Bootstrap & Semantic UI

Notable Differences

1. Bootstrap is obviously the most popular framework of the lot.

It has a huge community and users rallying behind it and obviously improves the quality of the CSS Framework and support provided on sites like Stackoverflow.

2. Semantic looks best out of the box

Semantic UI, even though new to the competition has the best looks out of the box. Its community of users is growing and is used by a lot of programmers who want a quick prototype.

3. Foundation is easiest to customize

While sites made in Bootstrap and Semantic have their own signatures and look very similar to other sites made on the same framework, Foundation is almost indistinguishable. It shows marks from a framework that was made from the bottom-up for customization.

4. Bootstrap is tightly tied to jQuery Implementation

Even with the new release 4.0 alpha, bootstrap continues to be tightly integrated with the jQuery framework. Even though its community has been active in porting the framework to every other Javascript framework available, most of them are incomplete or contain bugs.

Foundation meanwhile provides a pure javascript implementation that can be used with any Javascript framework. This is a working case, but implementations like React might require a different format of the implementation altogether.

Semantic has put together a React and jQuery version of the framework under the same umbrella. Most of the functions are similar for both frameworks and work well out of the box.

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