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A Static Web Server with Built-in Preprocessing – Harp

Harp is a zero-configuration static web server with built in preprocessing. It supports Jade, Markdown, EJS, LESS, Stylus, and CoffeeScript. Harp is great for rapidly building front-end web applications, documentation, and blogs. Harp intelligently compiles assets as the browser needs them, so it’s insanely fast. All you have to do is Save and Refresh. You can keep your code clean…

Pixi.js – Super Fast HTML5 2D Rendering Engine With Canvas Fallback

Pixi.JS is a super fast HTML5 2D rendering engine that uses webGL with canvas fallback. The aim of this project is to provide a fast lightweight 2D library that works across all devices. The Pixi renderer allows everyone to enjoy the power of hardware acceleration without prior knowledge of webGL. [rss]Special Downloads[/rss][rss]Design Freebies[/rss] [rss]Feedback Collection and Polling Widget[/rss][rss]Free Creative Resume…

UI Components for Modern Web Apps – Brick

Brick is a bundle of reusable UI components created to enable rapid development of cross-browser and mobile-friendly HTML5 web applications. It's a cross-browser library that provides new custom HTML tags to abstract away common user interface patterns into easy-to-use, flexible, and semantic Web Components. Built on Mozilla’s x-tags library, Brick allows you to plug simple HTML tags into your markup…

Simple, Lightweight Blogging System – Anchor CMS

Anchor is a lightweight blogging platform with a focus on simplicity and elegance. Anchor weighs in smaller than a standard JPG image (~150kb). Anchor gives you full freedom over your words. Just write in Markdown or HTML, whatever you prefer. If you want to add some custom CSS, JavaScript, or an image to your post, you can simply drag the…

Phalcon PHP – Higher Performance Web Framework

Phalcon PHP is a web framework delivered as a C extension providing high performance and lower resource consumption. Phalcon PHP is written in C with platform independence in mind. As a result, Phalcon PHP is available on Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, You can either download a binary package for the system of your choice or build it from…

A Lightweight Frontend Framework for Responsive Apps – SkelJS

SkelJS is a lightweight front-end framework for building responsive sites and apps. Consisting of only a single JS file (weighing in at just 18kb as of this version), it gives designers and developers access to four powerful components: CSS Grid System, Responsive Handler, CSS Shortcuts and Plugin System. A sophisticated 12 column CSS grid system with a concise, uncluttered syntax,…

A Lightweight Front-End Framework: UIkit

UIkit is a lightweight and modular front-end framework for developing fast and powerful web interfaces. UIkit gives you a comprehensive collection of HTML, CSS, and JS components which is simple to use, easy to customize and extendable. Everything is very-well documented with examples and a web-based customizer exists for creating new themes (there are already 3 ready-to-choose themes). [rss]Special Downloads[/rss]…

LESS – The CSS Preprocessor: Tools, Mixins, Plugins And Libraries

As a Web designer must be familiar with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), the style sheet language used to format markup on Web pages. CSS itself is extremely simple, consisting of rule sets and declaration blocks and it does pretty much everything you want. LESS is the dynamic stylesheet language, it extends CSS with dynamic behavior such as variables, mixins, operations…

Pure – A Lightweight, Responsive CSS Framework from Yahoo!

A set of lightweight, responsive CSS modules that you can use in every web project. Pure is meant to be a starting point for every website or web app. We take care of all the CSS work that every site needs, without making it look cookie-cutter. A solid base built on Normalize.css to fix cross-browser compatibility issues Styles for vertical and horizontal…

Front End Development Framework For Rapid Web Development: The Markup Framework

The Markup Framework is a collection of layouts, widgets, typographic styles and other UI components to use as a starting point for your own Web designs. [rss]Special Downloads[/rss] [rss]Design Freebies[/rss] [rss]Feedback Collection and Polling Widget[/rss] [rss]Free Creative Resume Template[/rss] [rss]Open Source Icons[/rss] [rss]Free Minimal Wordpress Theme[/rss]