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Bootstrap vs. Tailwind CSS

Kudzai Murimi on May 23, 2024

Bootstrap vs. Tailwind CSS: What's the Difference? Hello Dev Community! 👋 Welcome to another insightful article where we dive into the ...
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Future_Developer

I think both bootstrap and tailwind css are great! It's dependent on what your projects requirements and preferences are, my first project l used bootstrap but l will suggest that it's good to learn both framework.

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Muradsas

Yeah but for beginners bootstrap is more suitable at first. Getting used to a css framework is important before moving into tailwind css. That is what i did at least.

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Kudzai Murimi

Thanks for sharing the knowledge, I second you on that Murad!

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Ben Sinclair

Personally I think it'd be better to learn the fundamentals of CSS first rather than an abstraction. In this instance I'd say learn CSS, then Tailwind instead of Bootstrap - it's more modern and it's "closer to the metal".

Full disclosure, I'd also say learn the fundamentals of CSS and don't bother with Tailwind (or any other HTML-based framework) so take what I say with a pinch of salt.

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Kudzai Murimi

Yeah, 100% true!
It depends on the project.

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Giovanni Panasiti

Great article. I'd like to note that if you try to go a bit further than the basic example bootstrap continues to have a short, readable, and with clear markup while tailwind gets more and more clutter HTML.

I love bootstrap so much that I'm even trying to give it a new kinda of life with ui.bootstrap.ninja

Since the bootstrap ecosystem was really leaking of high quality, production-grade components

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Kudzai Murimi

Thank Giovanni, l will release more about Bootstrap soon!

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Peter Galiba

The Choose Tailwind CSS if section looks to be unfinished.

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Kudzai Murimi

Thanks Peter!

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Arnaud Dagnelies

It should be noted that Bootstrap offers utility classes too. See getbootstrap.com/docs/5.3/utilitie... for example. This kind of stuff is not limited to tailwind. ...actually, almost all CSS frameworks have utility classes.

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eshimischi

Check UnoCSS too

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Kudzai Murimi

Thanks Eshimischi. Will look into that too!

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Mitchell Mutandah

Great share!

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Vishv

Great comparison.

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Melody Mbewe

Great article.

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Hero Hunter

Tailwind

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Lotfi Jebali

Great post ! thanks for sharing these thoughts

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Lindiwe

Great article!

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Atharva

TailwindCSS removed purge since 3.0 there's a dedicated section addressing optimization using its own cli and CssNano

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Neil

The purge config option might have been removed, but there's still an option to add a 'content' config that does the same job as far as I'm aware.