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Headless UI

Headless UI is one of 85 technologies we detect in UI frameworks.

detected by AwesomeTechStack auditsheadlessui.dev

About Headless UI

Headless UI is an unstyled component library for either React.js or Vue.js from the same people that created Tailwind CSS.

How Headless UI compares

  1. #18Layui31k
  2. #19NextUI30k
  3. #20ZURB Foundation30k
  4. #21Headless UI29k
  5. #22Vant24k
  6. #23MDBootstrap24k
  7. #24Pure CSS24k

28M npm downloads, last 30 days

#21 of 71 UI frameworks we have counts for (of 85) · bars are GitHub stars across these neighbours; the category leader is Flutter at 179k · as of August 23, 2026

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Headless UI

#21 of 71 UI frameworks

stars29k
downloads / 30d28M
ZURB Foundation

#20 of 71 UI frameworks

stars30k
downloads / 30d456k

The two numbers disagree - one leads on stars, the other on installs. Stars measure attention, downloads measure use.

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How we audit Headless UI

We measure the detected version against Headless UI's release history and grade the surrounding stack with a Lighthouse-grade quality audit. Weak or outdated links weigh more - one risky dependency can pull the whole score down.

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