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You Don’t Need a UI Framework
- wruza 5y agoAnother point is team work. Custom CSS tends to grow into a non-refactorable mess that no one dares to touch after a while. As the project grows, even if it’s few days in development, the urge to hack and cut corners in tech as welcoming it as css takes over any good reason. You actually need css framework in many cases, but existing ones are dumb and flat, e.g. there is no table that assumes controls in column headers or a pre-designed “add” button, a no-rows placeholder style, styles for column dnd, etc. The author is right that every site is unique, but stripped of “themes” they are nothing more than a set of graphical elements, detailed finer than a fixed set of components.