# visionmedia/uikit

UIKit - modern ui components for the modern web

Repository: https://github.com/visionmedia/uikit
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/visionmedia-uikit
Homepage: http://visionmedia.github.com/uikit
Language: JavaScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2022-03-11T01:32:21+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5442, "days_push": 1637, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1318, forks 102 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:21.182525+00:00)

## What it is
UIKit is a small (4kb minified/gzipped) collection of flexible, decoupled JavaScript UI components for the web, emphasizing structure-only styling so applications can apply their own look. It includes components like dialogs, notifications, a color picker, and a 3D card, though its components have since been split into individual repos.

## Use cases
- add lightweight dialogs and notifications to a web app without a heavy framework
- use a small color picker component in vanilla JavaScript
- build custom-styled UI components with structure-only CSS
- include growl-like notifications on a website
- create a 3D flip card with CSS transforms

## When to choose
- you need a tiny, dependency-light set of UI components for a legacy or vanilla JS project
- you want structure-only styling you can theme yourself
- you're maintaining an existing codebase already using UIKit components

## When to avoid
- starting a new project - development has moved to individual component repos and the project is effectively abandoned
- you need a full-featured modern UI framework or CSS framework like Bootstrap
- you need guaranteed maintenance, security updates, or long-term support

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: ui-components, frontend-framework
- domain: web-development, frontend
- platform: browser
- tags: lightweight, structure-only-styling, component-library, legacy, javascript

## Member repositories
- visionmedia/uikit (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:21.182525+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 2026-08-30T04:48:10.682878+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/visionmedia/uikit (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:21.182525+00:00, sha 86121b841f4c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.