CiscoUIKit

The Cisco Brand-approved user interface kit. A modern, lightweight, responsive and programmable presentation layer that can be used to style HTML primitive elements and UI-framework independent.

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Overview

The Cisco UI kit is a style guide that focuses on HTML markup and CSS styling for web development. It does not provide any Javascript components, allowing developers to choose their preferred Javascript toolkit. This UI kit is a collaboration between Cisco Brand and Cisco Engineering.

Features

Style guide for HTML markup and CSS styling
Leaves the choice of Javascript toolkit up to the developer
Collaboration between Cisco Brand and Cisco Engineering

Summary

The Cisco UI kit is a style guide for HTML markup and CSS styling in web development. It does not provide any Javascript components, giving developers the freedom to choose their preferred Javascript toolkit. The installation process involves downloading and installing necessary tools like Node and Git, and then fetching the UI kit source from Github or NPM, Bower, or Yarn. After installing the required node modules and building the UI kit, it can be opened in a browser for use.

Bootstrap: Bootstrap is the most popular CSS Framework for developing responsive and mobile-first websites.
SCSS: SCSS is a preprocessor scripting language that extends the capabilities of CSS by adding features such as variables, nesting, and mixins. It allows developers to write more efficient and maintainable CSS code, and helps to streamline the development process by reducing repetition and increasing reusability.
Gulp: Gulp.js is an old but popular site building tool that automates various repetitive development tasks in web development, such as compiling Sass, minifying JavaScript, and optimizing images.