For a recent project I decided to drop all frameworks and learn responsive design from the ground up. I was amazed how easy it is, and how little 'boilerplate'

For a recent project I decided to drop all frameworks and learn responsive design from the ground up. I was amazed how easy it is, and how little 'boilerplate' or scaffolding was needed. Obviously there are tradeoffs, I'm sure my rounded corners don't work on old versions of IE. Benefits are one less layer of complexity, and that's powerful. I feel the same way about CSS preprocessors. Now... I'm not going to evangelize against it, and I'm sure I'll need to use bootstrap again. But it's great to know I don't need a framework, a grid, or any of that extra.