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by evancaine 1402 days ago
I know tailwind is the star these days, but as a back-end dev, nothing comes close to bootstrap in terms of productivity and aesthetics. I've used tailwind and I like it - I've even paid for tailwind UI - but for crud apps that don't require a lot of custom styling, bootstrap is still my default.

Anyone else still using and enjoying bootstrap for new projects?

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Yeah Bootstrap is great for having component classes for most things normal webapps need, and having enough utility classes for the more custom things. Love that you can use it in apps that are a mix of technologies as well, and good component support in React, Svelte, HTML, etc.

Tailwind is neat but the lack of component class names means you have to roll your own or embed very specific style classes like shadows, borders, etc in to every component.

Bootstrap is still extremely relevant in 2022.
Yeah I intentionally chose it as the foundation for UI for a project we started in 2021. The components are simple and lightweight there's an abundance of great themes.