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

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Samuele Zanca

If i had to make something I'd never use bootstrap as the default styles imo are pretty ugly considering today's trends.

I also dislike flexbox grid for some of the same reasons I dislike flexbox. e.g. +100 divs and something you could easily write yourself and probably be more precise (assuming you know what you're doing)
tho flexbox grid is definetly the best of all the css frameworks I've seen.

Also, as far as compiling styles like you mentioned with nodejs. Very simply with react or similar tooling which compile things down to a static website, bootstrap would get the treatment you were talking about where unused styles aren't used in the compilation (iirc) however with react this thing exists react-bootstrap.github.io however thats a solution to a problem that didn't exist as I'm pretty sure most react devs would prefer to make their css with something like sass, less or css components.