I don't do much frontend work these days, but years ago, it felt like the defining feature of Bootstrap was the 12-column layout. Sure, it had fun buttons and other components, but the ability to trivially define multi-column layout without ripping your hair out was its raison d'être.

Now that we have flexbox, I'm not sure anyone needs Bootstrap.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

It also has lots of UI widgets like collapsing elements, modals and alerts. Sure, you could code all these by hand, but why bother?

[–] somegeek 2 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

All the elements you mentioned are natove HTML elements that don't need any library.

[–] refalo 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

many native elements either do not function like people want or cannot be styled the same

[–] somegeek 1 points 2 weeks ago

Can you elaborate? Give some examples?

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