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I really dislike posts that attempt to present their opinion as a new sort of dogma. I argue that this is one of those because his intro specifically mentions t

I really dislike posts that attempt to present their opinion as a new sort of dogma. I argue that this is one of those because his intro specifically mentions teaching junior developers as a senior developer and code smells. Bootstrap and Tailwind have completely different strengths. I don't really see them as in competition with each other. His most valid point is how hard is to customize bootstrap theming options. The rest of his points are just a matter of taste. Luckily, if you google for "free bootstrap theme builder", there are several free sites that let you point and click your way to whatever fonts, colors, etc. you want in bootstrap then download a bootstrap.css file that is a drop-in replacement for the one that ships out of the box.

kugelblitz 4y ago
I don't even find it that hard to customize. I'm a backend dev at heart, but I develop my own niche side projects. I would use something like Symfony's Webpack Encore (but if I had to start over, I might use something lightweight like Parcel.js, I might migrate though), then let a "yarn watch" run in the background and it would re-compile in 2-3 seconds. While I'm building my product and doing marketing and making sure it is performant and up all the time, I don't have too much time to adjust the details of the menu dropdown in mobile view (or even figure out how to do it). Bootstrap also has utilities now (e.g. "py-md-3" for a large padding in the y axis - top and bottom - in larger screens) and that's good enough for me as a solo-dev for my own side project. Adjusting the border radius and the shadow in the "btn" class in the Sass already gives it a different feel.
wonnage 4y ago
"senior vs junior engineer" content always feels really cringeworthy. Particularly because self-proclaimed senior engineers tend to insist theirs is the One True Way. It's even worse when it devolves into "X framework/library sucks" linkbait. Guess what, the only guaranteed worse library is the one you wasted time ripping out perfectly good code to rewrite

kugelblitz 4y ago

I don't even find it that hard to customize. I'm a backend dev at heart, but I develop my own niche side projects. I would use something like Symfony's Webpack Encore (but if I had to start over, I might use something lightweight like Parcel.js, I might migrate though), then let a "yarn watch" run in the background and it would re-compile in 2-3 seconds. While I'm building my product and doing marketing and making sure it is performant and up all the time, I don't have too much time to adjust the details of the menu dropdown in mobile view (or even figure out how to do it). Bootstrap also has utilities now (e.g. "py-md-3" for a large padding in the y axis - top and bottom - in larger screens) and that's good enough for me as a solo-dev for my own side project. Adjusting the border radius and the shadow in the "btn" class in the Sass already gives it a different feel.

wonnage 4y ago

"senior vs junior engineer" content always feels really cringeworthy. Particularly because self-proclaimed senior engineers tend to insist theirs is the One True Way. It's even worse when it devolves into "X framework/library sucks" linkbait. Guess what, the only guaranteed worse library is the one you wasted time ripping out perfectly good code to rewrite