Alternative to Bootstrap??? 🤔

hey!

As a newbie, when I started in web development I went straight to Bootstrap.

Today I found this post where they say it is outdated.

Tell me, what should I wear? What is trend? Pure CSS? Some other framework?

Thanks, as always.

Comments

[<A.BONFIGLIO/>]

I suggest Tailwind CSS.
There are also Bulma css, foundation, semantic ui, UI kit, materialize css, skeleton, Spectre and other 😂😂🔥

[Madza]

I believe Atomic CSS holds the most future potential 😉
For now its Tailwind, especially when paired with Svelte 🔥🔥

For more, I did an article about styling options 🎨🖌📚

[Austin S. Hemmelgarn]

It's not ’outdated’ so much as ’old news’ and ’limiting’. Bootstrap is perfectly serviceable, it’s just big, not ‘new’ (and therefore not ‘cool’, lots of developers unfortunately use this as a measure of how good something is instead of simply evaluating it on it’s merits), and imposes some potentially undesirable limitations (though one of the big ones, dependence on JQuery, is planned to be removed in Bootstrap 5, when that eventually comes out...).

Tailwind is one of the better ‘modern’ options right now if you’re looking for building blocks for your own design, it’s reasonably lightweight and very powerful.

For cases where you just need a style ‘reset’ that gives you consistency across browsers for simple sites, I’d recommend Water.css, it’s tiny, looks reasonably nice, and works almost everywhere.

I’ve also heard good things about Bulma, though unlike the others I’ve never touched it myself so I can’t really comment on how good it is.

[Louis Low]

...and Yogurt as well.

[Thomas Gotwig]

Shoelace is more modern I think, because it builds up on Web Components 📦

[Lawrence Lagerlof]

Tailwind CSS. It's elegant, easy and powerful. Try the playground.

[Ginaldo Laranjeiras]

There is PureCSS and my favorite, Material Design for Web.

[Pacharapol Withayasakpunt]

If I had to go most radical, I would say,

• normalize.css or CSS reset
• web component library
• atomic CSS (but I don't like Tailwind in that I have to set up CSS purge)

[JWP]

My thoughts are that using Html 5 Grid and Scss have become so powerful and easy, that other 3rd party style frameworks are dead.

Not everyone agrees but in just 9 months of using only the Html 5 Grid and Scss, I no longer have a reason for anything else.

It's the same thing with querySelectorAll deprecating JQuery.

The Html 5 Grid has deprecated 3rd party CSS frameworks as well as media queries.

But don't take my word, just dive deep into Scss and Html 5 Grid and prove it to yourself.

[Giorgos Kontopoulos 👀]

I believe John Peters above is talking about NOT using bootstrap grid but vanilla CSS Grid

[ProMikeCoder2020]

Bro jQuery is not just about querySelectorAll. It has lots of other nice features

[JWP]

True, but in my current project none of them are needed. Most of what I need is in Angular.

[ProMikeCoder2020]

Sure... When you use a modern front-end framework you definitely don't not should need something like jQuery

[Médéric Burlet]

scss with flexbox is all you need!

I do have a small kink for bulma though