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.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 16 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@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

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

[–] ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yes but it wasn’t always the case. Bootstrap used to be very helpful when grids, modals, accordions and so on were not standard.

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