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Discussion on: Do we really need a CSS Framework?

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Chad Windham

I worked on a massive application. We used the Angular framework and (especially because my boss was a HUGE bootstrap advocate) tried to leverage bootstrap. You know how much bootstrap we wound up using? Pretty darn close to 0%. Everything was custom designed to fit the specific task AND the "brand" that using bootstrap for just about anything slowed down the process.

In my opinion, if you have no intention of getting good at CSS, bootstrap is for you. (That is not intended as a criticism, CSS is surprisingly complex, and if it is just a small part of a "full stack" developers arsenal, it very well may not be worth their time to get "great" at it, and leveraging something like bootstrap could be a very smart way to handle it.)

If however, you are pretty good at CSS, bootstrap tends to become less and less valuable. For somebody like me, I honestly make custom, responsive UIs faster than using bootstrap (because I still have to read the bootstrap docs).

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Sarthak Sharma

Tools Angular-UI also make people go for bootstrap. But problem is that if you save time in beginning, it will take way more time when do modifications.