Are you considering building a new application and looking for a stellar UI framework? Introducing Bulma CSS, a free, open-source framework that provides ready-to-use frontend components that you can easily combine to build responsive web interfaces.
Bulma by default is quite simple in style but it can be manipulated in different ways for any type of design, check out some of the awesome designs made with Bulma here.
With a variety of CSS frameworks available, what makes Bulma CSS stand out over the others? Let’s explore!
1. Free to use
As mentioned above, Bulma doesn’t cost anything to use. It’s open-source which makes it accessible to virtually anyone who wants to use it. Although most other UI frameworks are free, it’s still a great feature that we may take for granted at times.
2. Lightweight
Compared to its competitors, Bulma is a lighter framework. It comes with the bare essentials that every framework should have and won’t overload your application with code that you will never use.
3. Easy to learn
One thing that you want to avoid is taking extensive time to learn a framework. This can hinder your production as there could be more than one developer who is reviewing the code and using the framework to build out features on your website or application. Bulma markets itself as an easy-to-learn framework. The concepts provide a short learning curve so you can get started with the development faster.
4. Modular
Nowadays, you may want to use more than one UI framework for different areas of your application. Bulma is a modular UI framework. What this means, is that you can use pieces of the framework that you like while utilizing other solutions too without having to import too much code. You can simply import the specific sass files to build out a single feature instead of using it throughout the entire application.
5. Browser support
Bulma supports a variety of different browsers. Below is a list that supports:
- Chrome
- Edge
- Firefox
- Opera
- Safari
Of course, you would need your UI framework to compatible with as many browsers as possible, you cannot guarantee that it will work on everything. It covers the most popular browsers so you don’t have to worry about manually testing on every single browser before launching.
6. Good Documentation
In order to build a project and have many developers use the same technology, having good documentation is key. It also impacts the learning curve as addressed in #3. Luckily, Bulma provides great documentaion. Check out their docs here: https://bulma.io/documentation/
7. Comes with components
You can see here that Bulma comes with several components that can be easily implemented by going to the following: https://bulma.io/documentation/components/
8. Purely CSS
Unlike some other UI frameworks that may incorporate or use other languages, Bulma only focuses on CSS.
9. Responsiveness
Bulma uses flexbox for a good responsive design just like other UI frameworks. If you are already familiar with flexbox and the idea of it, this will be easy for you to pick up.
Now that we know about some of the advantages of Bulma, what are things that may not be an advantage to work with? It is still a newer UI framework which means that it does not have the same broad community as some other frameworks may have. It is good to have a large community since it breeds more discussion and helps with issues, questions, and tutorials to help a developer along the way. Although Bulma doesn’t have the largest community, it is growing over time.
There is so much more to learn about Bulma, so we recommend that you check out the documentation and watch the videos they provide.