Thank you, I'll surely keep flexibility in mind. However, don't you think UI kits are meant to do the most of the job for the developer and should not require any additional work on your side? (as long as it does not interfere with your stack ofc)

I suppose that depends on what type of user you're targeting. I'm a front-end engineer, not a designer, so I want to be able to smoothly integrate with tools with minimal conflicts. I don't think it's asking too much of a user to add a class to the body. Consider that even if you're targeting non-programmers (designers), they will still customize the UI on top of your library and therefore know how to add a class to a tag.

On the other hand, I've tried somewhat- or very-opinionated UI kits and if there was something I didn't like or want to use, I had to find a way to opt-out, which was always ugly and not sustainable.

Additionally, this helps semantics and readability, and helps keep things scoped. What if I want to use your UI kit in a subsection of my document but not the whole thing?

To me, that is the holy grail of UI kits.

That's a view worth keeping in mind. Does the kit you have mentioned above work for you in that way?

No, but it's the closest I've seen yet. It applies some pretty tame styles on inclusion, and every class is namespaced.

I'll sure take a closer look at how it feels and works. Thank you. Feel free to join the waiting list - I'd love to hear a feedback from you on the first version.

Done!

I know Propeller and I think the guys did a great job there. My project will also be based on Bootstrap to make it easy to jump in for most devs. I've put the link to the waiting list below and I'd love to hear your opinion the moment it's out.

Thanks for the hint. I'm aiming into something similar to BS4 in terms of use simplicity - you download the kit, plug it into your site and go.

"How well have you documented your "helpers" and "glue" and less obvious stuff? Have you documented your goals in the project? Your non-goals and things you know don't work right?"

This two questions really made me think about those two crucial parts. I'll surely let the users know about those with the first release. Thank you.

As for the MFD - I'm following the Microsoft guidelines all the way in hope to keep it a faithful re-creation, but simplified.

Quick note here.

I've asked the same question on some of the other forums and was surprised how people want to help each other with such project. Seems like it's the same case here.

I do not have anything to show to the public yet, but I've prepared a waiting list for all the people who would like to see the final effect - https://www.nespero.com/ Please, feel invited to join. Thank you!

Thanks for such a great info!

- Modularity: If i need only a few components i should have the option to include only those and not any unnecessary bloat. - Check

- Availability as package [npm etc.] - Check

- Example apps and landing pages. Some UI kits give email ui, todo list ui etc. - Check, but this will surely be introduced later

- The kit should be lightweight + clean css [sass/less] + clean html. - Check

- Browser compatibility. - Still to be tested, but works fine on most browsers

- Easy customization. - Check

I think I can check this one off by introducing modularity. The way I see it is that you have a download page where you can check all the features you want your kit to consist of and get just that.

A few months back, we've reached out to HN community with Material Design for Bootstrap - a framework taking best out of these two worlds.

It seems that you have really enjoyed our work, yet there were many questions about Angular integration.

It was pretty clear for us what we need to deliver.

The MDB for Angular is still a fresh framework and requires a lot of work, so we humbly ask for your feedback and suggestions.

Thanks!

You can use Free Package both for your commercial and personal projects.

http://mdbootstrap.com/license/

On a side note, as for the CDN, MDB is there for you. You can also get it through NPM, Bower and from Github.

It's all here: http://mdbootstrap.com/getting-started/

Even the navbar is a premium component. Pass.

The navbar comes with Bootstrap. I created pages with MDBootstrap that have a navbar and the look is integrated. Maybe you are seeing some of their customized navs?