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 Jan 22 2026
1. Minimalist Masonry Gallery Layout With CSS Grid – mm-masonry.css
A CSS library that makes use of CSS Grid to create flexible, fluid, Masonry-style image grids similar to Pinterest and Tumblr layouts.
2. Adaptive Image Gallery With Masonry Grid Layout
A lightweight photo gallery that showcases your images in a responsive Masonry grid layout.
It leverages JavaScript to detect screen size and reorder gallery elements accordingly. Images are arranged in a flexible grid with evenly-spaced columns.
As you resize your browser, the gallery automatically transitions between column layouts (from 4 rows on wide screens to 1 row on mobile).
This responsive behavior ensures images are legible and effectively displayed without stretching or overflow issues.
3. Simple Masonry Grid Layout With Flexbox – simple-masonry.js
A lightweight Vanilla JS library to help you generate a responsive, mobile-friendly Masonry grid layout using CSS flexbox.
4. Responsive Masonry Layouts with CSS Grid and Mason-it.js
A lightweight JavaScript library that transforms CSS Grid powered layout into a responsive masonry layout while preserving your original grid design.
Many developers, myself included, have reached for CSS Grid to build layouts, only to find that most masonry libraries want to dictate their own positioning, often ignoring grid-template-columns or gap. mason-it takes a different approach: you define the grid, and it handles the vertical stacking.
Features
- True CSS Grid Based: It works directly with your
display: gridcontainer and its properties likegrid-template-columnsandgap. - Zero Dependencies: Just a small JavaScript file (around 6KB minified and gzipped). No extra baggage.
- Simple API: Can be initialized with a single
data-mason-itHTML attribute or a JavaScript call:MasonIt.init(). - Dynamic Content Ready: Uses
MutationObserverto automatically detect and adjust for items added or removed from the grid. - Smooth Updates: Leverages
requestAnimationFramefor fluid layout recalculations on content changes or window resize. - Handles Hidden Elements: Correctly recalculates layouts when items with
display: nonebecome visible or vice-versa. - Fast & Responsive: Recalculates quickly, aiming for a native feel.
- Image Load Aware (indirectly): While it doesn’t have a built-in “images loaded” checker, it’s designed to work correctly if refreshed after images load, and its internal logic waits for content to be ready before initial calculation.
5. 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.
6. Responsive CSS Masonry Grid Layout – Grid Overflow
A CSS library for creating responsive Masory- and Mosaic-style grid layouts with optional 3D hover effects.
7. Create Flexible Hexagonal Grids with HoneyCombLayoutJs
A lightweight JavaScript library that transforms standard HTML elements into a honeycomb (hexagonal) grid layout.
It handles all the complex math involved in positioning elements in a hexagonal pattern and allows you to control orientation, size, spacing, and grid dimensions with HTML data attributes.
8. 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.
9. flexbin.css
A lightweight, flexible CSS library which lets you create responsive, neat, justified grid layout for showcasing your photos as you seen on Google Image Search and Flickr. Heavily based on CSS3 flexbox and fully customizable via SCSS.
10. 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.
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