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Discussion on: What would you choose if you'd go against the trends?

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Robbie Antenesse • Edited

Choo is my personal favorite framework because it's light and easy to understand. Then I always try to find the lightest CSS framework. My all-time favorite CSS framework is Bulma, but it's not very light, so I frequently reach for Picnic instead because it's got enough features and is very light! If I don't need anything fancy, I love the tiny lit+util library and frequently use my fork of it lighter+fuel.

In most of my (admittedly small) use cases, these tiny frameworks are more than plenty, and they tend to produce websites that download less than 100kb while still looking nice! In my opinion, more devs should aim to use smaller libraries and play bandwidth golf—sites that load nearly instantly because they're tiny are the best.

EDIT: Though most of the time I tend to just use vanilla JS and PHP. It tends to be easier and lighter overall!