Its not just for positioning, its also for distribution of space. e.g. as a contrived example, you can say you want the left sidebar to be 200px, and the rest o

Its not just for positioning, its also for distribution of space. e.g. as a contrived example, you can say you want the left sidebar to be 200px, and the rest of the space to be distributed 80%/20% for the body and right sidebar. This is a good site for demonstrating other situations that flexbox helps with: https://philipwalton.github.io/solved-by-flexbox/ https://philipwalton.github.io/solved-by-flexbox/ It is recommended a lot because its a really powerful and simple API to serve a broad class of problems.