[ehutch79]

I'm not sure what your point is.

My point was that a lot of use of bootstrap was through CDNs. Yes, there was plenty of npm downloads also. However comparing tailwind npm downloads vs bootstrap downloads is not a fair comparison of use.

They have different use cases and target audiences. A lot of people want to just chuck a button in a template and have it look in their internal tool that 3 people will see. They likely copied the dist/bootstrap.min.css file and never updated.

It's also likely all the users of server side frameworks like django or ruby on rails never setup npm in those projects, but certainly used bootstrap. It's less likely those projects would use tailwind because you need have a js buildstep for it unless you want to ship 10mb of css.

There's no denying tailwind is popular, but thinking npm is the only way people are getting css frameworks/libraries is flat wrong.