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Yeah, CSS has definitely matured in the last few years. Flexbox was a big step out of the darkness, but I think Grid is what we've all been waiting for since 1996.
That said, Flexbox is an absolutely critical layout method in and of itself, I just think too many people got used to using it for 2D layouts when it's really specifically designed for complex 1D layouts, because it was still so much better than float-based methods.
I recently read something by Rachel Andrew (I forget what) where she says that she wishes Flexbox and Grid had been ready at the same time and released simultaneously, so that people understood that they're meant to be complementary to each other and used in different circumstances. There are lots of things that Flexbox can do very easily that Grid just can't, and obviously the reverse is true as well.
In my ideal world, CSS Grid and Flexbox would have arrived together, fully formed to make up a layout system for the web. Instead, however, we got Flexbox first and, due to it being better at creating grid-type layouts than floats, we ended up with a lot of Flexbox-based grid systems. In fact, many of the places where people find Flexbox difficult or confusing are really due to this attempt to make it a method for grid layout.
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Yeah, CSS has definitely matured in the last few years. Flexbox was a big step out of the darkness, but I think Grid is what we've all been waiting for since 1996.
That said, Flexbox is an absolutely critical layout method in and of itself, I just think too many people got used to using it for 2D layouts when it's really specifically designed for complex 1D layouts, because it was still so much better than float-based methods.
I recently read something by Rachel Andrew (I forget what) where she says that she wishes Flexbox and Grid had been ready at the same time and released simultaneously, so that people understood that they're meant to be complementary to each other and used in different circumstances. There are lots of things that Flexbox can do very easily that Grid just can't, and obviously the reverse is true as well.
Edit: She says it in the intro to this Smashing article: "What Happens When You Create A Flexbox Flex Container?"