The CSS Framework Debate

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Bootstrap became an instant hit and since then it has been the de facto CSS framework for most people. There have been a few others too but Bootstrap is perhaps the most popular.

However with React based apps one of the CSS frameworks we hear a lot about is the Tailwind CSS.

TailwindCSS has an utlity framework. It provides you this huge repository of CSS classes that achieve some function. You use all these classes to create the UI component of your choice.

Making a button for example could lead to several classes being applied. This is very different from Bootstrap which is a framework where you get the end UI component itself.

Why Tailwind is better than Bootstrap