In today’s web development, developers tend to use CSS Flexbox or CSS Grid Layout to create responsive and cross-platform grid layouts.
But it is a difficult task for beginners to create a proper grid layout to fit their design needs using complex CSS rules.
This is why I list here the 10 best JavaScript & Pure CSS layout libraries that help web developers quickly and easily generate a responsive grid layout for modern webpages or web applications. I hope you like it and don’t forget to spread the world.
Originally Published Nov 14 2017, updated Feb 23 2022
1. flexbin.css
A lightweight, flexible CSS library that lets you create a responsive, neat, justified grid layout for showcasing your photos as you have seen on Google Image Search and Flickr. Heavily based on CSS3 flexbox and fully customizable via SCSS.
2. Pinterest-like Responsive Fluid Grid Layout with Pure JavaScript
A pure JavaScript solution used to create a responsive, fluid waterfall grid layout as you see on Pinterest.com.
3. Dynamic Grid Layout Generator – Magic Grid
Magic Grid is a lightweight (3kb minified) JavaScript library to generate a dynamic, flexible grid layout using pure JavaScript.
4. flexmasonry
A lightweight JavaScript layout library which dynamically renders a Masonry-like grid layout using CSS3 flexbox.
5. MiniMasonry.js
A lightweight (~3kb) JavaScript library to create a responsive, fluid, Masonry-style grid layout for modern web design.
6. Masonry Grid Layout With Vanilla JavaScript – Gridify
A vanilla JavaScript layout plugin used to arrange your grid items in a Masonry-style layout using pure JavaScript.
7. Responsive, Draggable, Filterable Grid Layout – muuri
A versatile JavaScript library that helps you create responsive, draggable, filterable, searchable grid layout with smooth animations based on Velocity.js.
8. Atomic Bulldog Grid
A CSS(SCSS) library to generate modern, responsive, flexible grid layout using the CSS Grid Layout technology. The library also provides a fallback that uses CSS flexbox.
9. Lightweight Masonry Layout Library – Macy.js
A lightweight, standalone JavaScript library for creating a Masonry- and Pinterest-like grid layout that displays images in dynamic, responsive vertical columns.
10. Mosaic Tiling With Image Lazy Loading – mosaicLayout
A JavaScript library for rendering a responsive, mobile-friendly, mosaic tiling layout (also called Masonry Layout) on the page.
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