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Discussion on: Best CSS Frameworks in 2022

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𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️ • Edited

These CSS "frameworks" are the dumbest idea people had since using tables for layout, and back then they at least had the excuse that there was no alternative method, which isn't even remotely true now.

What all these frameworks really bring to your project:

  • More code, because you apply styles to elements instead of rules
  • Worse maintainability, because you have to stile similar elements individually
  • Less readability, because the markup is cluttered with styling information
  • All websites using the same toolkit look mostly the same

In short, most of what these frameworks achieve is roll back all the benefits of CSS to write HTML like the "good old days" again.


I feel like I need to add that the article itself is very well written. I just wish it was about all the great things vanilla CSS can do and how to reduce the styling-related code instead of spreading it all over the markup.