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Discussion on: Is it time to let go of Bootstrap?

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Travis Fantina

Bootstrap is still my goto because I know it fairly well. I think BS gets a bad rep because it's so easy to use the defaults and put up an unstyled website that looks like every other BS website, but if you spend a bit of time changing the defaults and writing some of your own CSS you can easily get a fully responsive website that is 100% unique.
I know there is a lot of new hotness around Tailwind but at this moment I don't see the point in investing the time to learn something new when BS still works fine for me.


Unrelated side rant:
Bulma is a bit of a nonstarter for me because it's not accessible .

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Oz • Edited

My thoughts exactly. When you have been in the software game long enough, you see that there's a new framework every month.

If there's a demand for something then learn it. E.g. React not jQuery anymore.

Someone told me about tailwind and I saw all the classnames and was like "thats bootstrap"

I'm in a real "I may as well just stick with Bootstrap" mindset.

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Vishwa.R

That's true @tfantina
I too use Bootstrap, even now, for some simpler projects which just focuses on functionality rather than brand-uniqueness. Tailwind is pretty good TBH and fantastic if you spend some time with it, but requires like a indepth knowledge of CSS, whereas Bootstrap gives UI components for ready.

So most of my friends starting out in Web-Dev start from Bootstrap :-)