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What are your favourite CSS frameworks so far? πŸ’…

Like in the title. What is your favourite CSS framework or stylesheet? Bootstrap? Bulma? Tailwind? Other?

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Fadhil Radhian

Tailwind for me

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Meat Boy

Why Tailwind? What do you like about it? :)

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Ben Halpern

This whole "utility-first" approach is really nice to work with. It doesn't need to be the thing we now use for everything, but it is definitely a step change if you're bought in.

From their home page:

An API for your design system.

Utility classes help you work within the constraints of a system instead of littering your stylesheets with arbitrary values. They make it easy to be consistent with color choices, spacing, typography, shadows, and everything else that makes up a well-engineered design system.

These ideas really do work effectively in my opinion. Tailwind is truly the first framework I've liked at all, in many ways. I see value in Bootstrap for a lot of projects, but the scalable productivity of the utility-first approach is really a big deal, IMO.

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Fadhil Radhian • Edited

The thing that did it for me was the simplicity to understand what's every class usage, since it is usually only for 1 CSS attribute, not multiple packed as one like Bootstrap. Therefore it give us freedom to mix & match almost every Tailwind class available.

If you want a component library and also the easy-to-customize benefit of Tailwind, you can use Tailwind UI, daisyui or tailwindcomponents.com. You get the best of both worlds.

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Omar Pervez

Tailwinds css has lots of components. I was using this framework on my project about 1 years. It's good.

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Kamal.M

Bootstrap is ultimate

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Omar Pervez

Yes, Bootstrap ☺️

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andreseduardop

Some advantages that I like about BS:

  • Components included.
  • Fewer Cross browser bugs
  • Supports major of all browsers and CSS compatibility fixes.
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CuriousDev

Is to use a framework in general recommended or can we just use CSS? If you have a favourite one, please explain why!

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TheDarkGlobe

For me it's tailwind because once you get used to the naming conventions it makes it very intuitive to design components / pages quickly.

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Andrew Baisden

Tailwind has become the most popular in my opinion. Bootstrap is pretty good too it was one of the first that I learned.

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Ian de Jesus

twin.macro

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Evg • Edited

I try not to use them. I write simple css to maintain the purity and control of the code, including for fairly large projects. I used to study almost all the novelties in this field, and learning means doing something on them. But time passed, I was tired, to be honest. I think I can afford it after more than 20 years of practice. Though... in the last project used the Bootstrap icons. :)

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Omar Pervez

Bootstrap is good for mine😊. And you?

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Hamad

Tailwind

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Drew Ronsman

Tailwind easy quick and simple

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j45t7

Since I learned about Tailwind I want to use it in every project πŸ™ˆ

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Jonas Petri

Same!

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Ξ›GΣΣK

If I was forced to use a CSS framework then I'll pick Tailwind. But not using any CSS frameworks is always my first choice.

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Dan Walsh

Loving TailwindCSS at the moment. πŸ₯°

I picked up the utility-first CSS itch with Bootstrap 4, and after reading "In Defense of Utility-First CSS" and switching to TailwindCSS, I don't think I could ever go back to OOCSS/BEM.

I really enjoy interrogating web designs and identifying repeating patterns for abstraction (whether into components or grouped classes), and TailwindCSS makes that a breeze.

I also really like that while TailwindCSS provides you with the entire kitchen sink, your production CSS is tiny as all of your unused styles are automatically purged.

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Louis Low

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Pontakorn Paesaeng

Tailwind/Windi I love being able to do quick prototype and change styles easily.

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Henning Summer • Edited

Materialize, bootstrap and bulma are simples! But, Tailwind is more flexible.

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Adejumo Ahmad

It's surely Tailwind