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Introduction

FlatifyCSS is the web modern and minimalist flat design library inspired by the  Duolingo design system. It respects accessibility and comes with the web's most common components.

Getting started

When we talk about flat design, you might think about the creepy palette and some old-fashioned web trends, but no, flat design is a wide term and in this case for FlatifyCSS, there are some principles that shape it clearly you will understand it easily.

Components

The most used patterns, highly composable and customizable.

Helpers

Immutable and reusable classes to speed the development process up.

Forms

Custom and native elements to create modern forms.

Download

FlatifyCSS is available for users in many ways, you can install it using package managers, directly from CDN, or even downloading lastest project archive.

CDN

Here is jsDelivr, you can add FlatifyCSS just with a single line of code:

index.html
<!-- CSS -->
<link
  href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/flatifycss/dist/css/flatify.min.css"
  rel="stylesheet"
  crossorigin="anonymous"
/>

<!-- JavaScript : Popperjs + FlatifyCSS -->
<script src="https://unpkg.com/@popperjs/core@2" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/flatifycss/dist/js/flatify.min.js" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

Package managers

You can include FlatifyCSS in your project with npm, yarn or composer:

npm

command line
npm install flatifycss

Yarn

command line
yarn add flatifycss

Composer

command line
composer require amir2mi/flatifycss

Contents

After installing FlatifyCSS with package managers or downloading the archive file there is a folder called /dist, where compiled CSS, JS and their map files are there, inside this folder these files are provided:

CSS

CSS files come with some options, files with -noprefix suffix, do not have PostCSS Autoprefixer, while -min means this file is minified.

flatify.css
flatify-min.css
flatify-noprefix.css
flatify-noprefix-min.css

JS

Note that FlatifyCSS needs Popperjs for dropdowns and popovers, but this library is not included inside the JavaScript file of FlatifyCSS, so it is up to you to include it inside your webpage.

flatify.js
flatify-min.js