2023 Popular Front-End UI Frameworks: Overview and Comparison

Front‑end UI frameworks are toolkits based on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that provide ready‑made components, styles, and layouts to accelerate web development and ensure a consistent user experience.

Using a UI framework can greatly reduce developers' workload, improve development efficiency, and maintain visual and interaction consistency across applications.

In 2023, the most popular domestic front‑end UI frameworks include:

Element Plus – developed by the Ele.me team, based on Vue 3 (also has a Vue 2 version), offering rich components and excellent performance.

Ant Design – a React component library from Ant Financial, providing extensive UI components, customization, and internationalization for enterprise‑level apps.

Ant Design Vue – the Vue version of Ant Design, widely used in Vue projects.

Naive UI – a Vue 3 UI library with TypeScript support, offering a modern design and high configurability.

View UI Plus – built on the latest Vue 3, suitable for data‑heavy or ERP systems and responsive across PC and mobile.

Vant – a lightweight mobile UI framework based on Vue, ideal for quickly building mobile web applications.

LayUI – a classic jQuery‑based UI library with a nostalgic design, now hosted on Gitee.

layui‑vue – a third‑party Vue 3 adaptation of LayUI’s design.

Bootstrap – a responsive front‑end framework from Twitter, offering a comprehensive set of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript components.

WeUI – Tencent’s UI library following the WeChat design language, providing simple and beautiful components.

All of these frameworks are excellent; developers should choose the one that best matches their project requirements and the technical level of their team.

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