Introduction
Learn more about what Skeleton is and what problems it can solve within your projects.
What is Skeleton?
Skeleton is a UI library, featuring tight integration between Svelte and Tailwind CSS. In short, the library utilizes Tailwind’s utility class-based design system to quickly and easily customize and extend the look and feel of each Skeleton feature. Paired with Svelte’s powerful component architecture, Skeleton creates customized, responsive, and reactive interfaces for projects of any scale and scope.
Why Us?
Let’s face it - creating consistent and responsive interfaces for the web can be quite a challenge. Over time this has led to the emergence of UI toolkits such as Bootstrap, Material Design, and Bulma. These allow developers to generate a consistent UI for web apps within any frontend tech stack. However, these toolkits only solve half the problem - they provide beautiful UI, but in most cases lack the accompanying functionality needed to make interactive components for your preferred framework, leaving that burden on you. In some cases, they may also require extra dependencies, which can introduce choice paralysis when filtering through the plethora of options in modern frontend development.
This has given rise to the framework-specific component libraries such as: Angular Material for Angular, Vuetify for Vue, and Mantine for React. These tools aim to be a complete solution that goes beyond the surface level and allows for direct integration of framework features, while providing fully interactive components, typically without the need to introduce extra packages and dependencies.
Like many in the frontend development community, we have been impressed with the introduction of Svelte - which provides a modern and powerful component system. Along with the SvelteKit app framework, that provides a turnkey solution for building and iterating on web projects using Svelte and next generation tooling such as Vite. However, while there are some great alteranatives available in the UI space, we felt there was room for a batteries included toolkit that pairs the very best of what Svelte and Tailwind have to offer. This is the reason we've introduced Skeleton.
Benefits
Free and Open Source
Skeleton is available as free and open-source software (FOSS) provided under the MIT License.
Community Owned
Skeleton is maintained by a number of talented contributors. If you wish to contribute to the project you are welcome to do so. Visit the Skeleton communities on either GitHub or Discord.
Release Cycle
Skeleton receives new updates every other week, typically around Tuesday (US/Central). Each release is packed with new features, improvements, and bugfixes.
View ReleasesComparisons
A quick comparison of Skeleton and other open source UI libraries.
A library of UI elements created by the creators of Tailwind CSS. This provides a huge library of turnkey HTML/CSS components. Currently Tailwind UI supports three options: HTML, React, and Vue. This means there's no plug and play solution for Svelte. You willneed to generate your own components and build your own logic around these. Tailwind UI can be directly integrated with Skeleton though, providing tight integration with Skeleton theme and design token systems.
View our Integration GuideFAQs
A list of frequently asked questions from new users. We recommend reading these before submitting a new support request.
No, Skeleton does not require Typescript, though we highly recommend it. Please be aware all documentation examples are written with Typescript by default. If you wish to learn Typescript we recommend Total Typescript.