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by czep 3169 days ago
Is modular css changing bootstrap adoption? I'm a backend guy so I don't have much experience to develop a sense of large-scale front-end trends. I've used bootstrap since early v3 in various places and usually found it time-saving, easy to build responsively, and fairly easy to customize.

However, just as frameworks like angular and libraries like react are "componentizing" the front end and replacing general purpose utilities like jQuery, will we see a similar trend with modular css where component styles will replace the need for large css frameworks like bootstrap? Or is modular css merely a complement to whatever sitewide css framework you've chosen?

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Taking advantage of what bootstrap has to offer requires writing your page structure with it in mind. It's both a method of structuring HTML and a CSS framework. I suppose you could pull out and compartmentalize certain specific features, but in my mind the core of bootstrap is the grid and component system, and those are pretty heavily tied together.