DEV Community

Discussion on: Why I don't use Bootstrap anymore.

Collapse
 
codedgar profile image
codedgar

Amazing answer :o

And I agree on you on the main part. But in point 2 I have to say that yes! I prefer making my own things!

This helps me create a component that can match the look and feel of the website completely instead of having to customize an already existing element. And maybe add little details that are not present on Bootstrap.

Some people may say that creating my own components for websites it's not optimal, but that's why I said "I" on the title 😄

Collapse
 
lprefontaine profile image
Luc Préfontaine

In the context of executing a contract for a customer, you cannot let that happen.
It's already hard to do a decent knowledge transfer, anything out there that is already published
and maintained should be used as much as possible.

I used to like to do my own things in assembler. But it was a different era and because of
limited hardware at the time it was on many occasions a 'logical' choice,
I remember though a customer that refused to buy a C compiler (5k CAD at the time)
for a distributed transactional system.
I ended up coding 40k lines of assembler (and I used macros extensively). 😬
Not a good business decision. This ran for more than 3 years w/o failing before being replaced
by a better business decision.

I and you are not eternal albeit you may have more time left than me (58 here).