Any framework can be abused or misused through laziness/ignorance. I think plain CSS is actually the most susceptible to abuse. Freehand tools are the most flexible but with no standard laid out, most people will just end up making a huge mess over time.
I understand the argument that Bootstrap is heavy but it's only JQuery that makes it heavy and BS5 will get rid of that. If a project doesn't need a component, just don't include it. Perhaps I have heart shapes glasses because I prefer a standardized look and feel over something unique but I'm going to keep reaching for standard libraries that let me get a front-end done in days instead of weeks.
I still think Bootstrap is a stunningly awful POS. I have been forced to use it on three projects now, loathe it. I can write my own stylesheets way better. There are a few good ideas in there, such as the font icons, but the whole idea of putting ten tags on every element and the idiotically meaningless names of the grid controls can just go somewhere the sun doesn't shine. It doesn't save you time, it makes things harder.
I create my own standardized look and feel.
All of the projects where I loathed Bootstrap were using modern frameworks. It has nothing to do with jQuery, it has to do with the terrible metaphors Bootstrap uses.
Strong words. You aren't forced to use 10 classes everywhere. You could come up with one class which extends those 10 classes and then use one repeatable class, same as any compiled CSS. I think of BS and all the other frameworks as just time-saving utility and for me it's always done a good job of that. I don't honestly know how it could possibly make things harder unless your always overriding it, which is a miss-use.
I wasn't the one overriding it. But the stylesheet was a mess of overrides nevertheless. I've never seen anyone compile the Bootstrap classes into one class, they were using them everywhere with multiple classes on every object.
The problem is that it becomes very difficult to see where some unwanted style attribute comes from. I also don't even want to understand how the grid classes work, because the names don't make any sense whatsoever.
What I really can't stand is how large companies hire back end developers that think that using a CSS library like this is a substitute for actually writing a well conceived ui. They pile on the various containers and objects and get something hugely inconsistent with layout anywhere else. I have written very large applications, and I didn't need a third party library to do it. I have in the past copied just the bootstrap style icons into a project but not used anything else from it. It's a style of markup I strongly disagree with.
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Any framework can be abused or misused through laziness/ignorance. I think plain CSS is actually the most susceptible to abuse. Freehand tools are the most flexible but with no standard laid out, most people will just end up making a huge mess over time.
I understand the argument that Bootstrap is heavy but it's only JQuery that makes it heavy and BS5 will get rid of that. If a project doesn't need a component, just don't include it. Perhaps I have heart shapes glasses because I prefer a standardized look and feel over something unique but I'm going to keep reaching for standard libraries that let me get a front-end done in days instead of weeks.
I still think Bootstrap is a stunningly awful POS. I have been forced to use it on three projects now, loathe it. I can write my own stylesheets way better. There are a few good ideas in there, such as the font icons, but the whole idea of putting ten tags on every element and the idiotically meaningless names of the grid controls can just go somewhere the sun doesn't shine. It doesn't save you time, it makes things harder.
I create my own standardized look and feel.
All of the projects where I loathed Bootstrap were using modern frameworks. It has nothing to do with jQuery, it has to do with the terrible metaphors Bootstrap uses.
Strong words. You aren't forced to use 10 classes everywhere. You could come up with one class which extends those 10 classes and then use one repeatable class, same as any compiled CSS. I think of BS and all the other frameworks as just time-saving utility and for me it's always done a good job of that. I don't honestly know how it could possibly make things harder unless your always overriding it, which is a miss-use.
I wasn't the one overriding it. But the stylesheet was a mess of overrides nevertheless. I've never seen anyone compile the Bootstrap classes into one class, they were using them everywhere with multiple classes on every object.
The problem is that it becomes very difficult to see where some unwanted style attribute comes from. I also don't even want to understand how the grid classes work, because the names don't make any sense whatsoever.
What I really can't stand is how large companies hire back end developers that think that using a CSS library like this is a substitute for actually writing a well conceived ui. They pile on the various containers and objects and get something hugely inconsistent with layout anywhere else. I have written very large applications, and I didn't need a third party library to do it. I have in the past copied just the bootstrap style icons into a project but not used anything else from it. It's a style of markup I strongly disagree with.