# elementalui/elemental

A flexible and beautiful UI framework for React.js

Repository: https://github.com/elementalui/elemental
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/elemental
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2018-12-17T13:44:14+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4163, "days_push": 2816, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4281, forks 214 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:41.220774+00:00)

## What it is
Elemental UI is a React and CSS (Less) component framework providing flexible, attractive UI controls for building web interfaces. It was developed by Thinkmill and is published as the 'elemental' npm package.

## Use cases
- build a react app with pre-styled form controls
- find a react ui component library with css themes
- style react forms and buttons without writing css
- use a lightweight react component framework
- prototype react interfaces quickly with ready-made components

## When to choose
- you are maintaining a legacy React app already built on Elemental
- you want a small, Less-based React UI kit and accept no updates

## When to avoid
- starting a new React project needing active maintenance and modern React support
- you need accessibility guarantees, TypeScript types, or recent browser features
- you want a component library with ongoing community support

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: abandoned
- function: ui-components, css-framework, frontend-framework
- domain: web-development, frontend
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: react, ui-kit, less, form-controls, unmaintained, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- elementalui/elemental (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:41.220774+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:21:58.243715+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/elementalui/elemental (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:41.220774+00:00, sha b8aa39cfe784)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/elemental (fetched 2026-08-29T09:11:36.522674+00:00, sha efdc2a18100c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.