In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about CSS frameworks - what they are, why they’re important, and when (and when not) to use them.

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Show Notes

2:52 - What is a CSS framework?

Pre-written CSS that takes over the basic styling of your app
Can include just utilities or lots of styles (minimal to overboard)
Twitter Bootstrap and Zurb Foundation were the pioneers
Follow different CSS styles from “functional CSS” to utility-first to BEM

7:33 - Functional (aka Utility) based

Tachyons
Tailwind

9:59 - Preprocessor based

Bootstrap

11:33 - Styled Components based

Rebass
Styled Systems
Facepaint

15:50 - Why use one?

Makes styling FAST
Makes hard things easy
Some, like Bootstrap, have themes
Keeps your own CSS minimal and organized
Built on an established system
Lots of people use the same CSS

19:22 - Why not use one?

CSS class hell
Stops you from learning how CSS works
Size (not all have this problem)
Brotli, Purify CSS
You will be overriding a ton of it
You like exclusively writing the code you need and nothing else

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