I understand that restaurants allow you to eat without cooking. But what does a CSS framework save you? You still have to write stuff to get the design you want, and you still have to come up with the design. Feel free to explain rather than drop another analogy…
Some (many) people find it easier to learn a small number of predefined class names that accomplish what they want without having to know hundreds of different CSS incantations when they’re just trying to make a simple site.
Sorta like how people use a command-line instead of just writing the code themselves.
I am primarily an embedded software engineer. However every now and again I have to write small web apps, having a CSS framework allows me to style it with pre-made classes saving me a boatload of work and learning and having the result look good.
A CSS framework allows you to not write any CSS! You just add utility classes to your html. I personally use tailwind and I guess there’s some advanced stuff where you’d have to still write CSS yourself but for most use cases it’s a lot easier. Flex layouts, notably, are a breeze.
Pretty much yeah, with shortcuts for frequent sizes, colors etc (which you can theme). I guess it’s mostly interesting if you use react, as you can have everything inside components and switch classes in your code. I wouldn’t say it makes things categorically better but it does lighten the cognitive load somewhat and the auto complete is fire.
What even is a restaurant? A place with a menu? I don’t understand why people go to those. I suggest cooking at home.
I understand that restaurants allow you to eat without cooking. But what does a CSS framework save you? You still have to write stuff to get the design you want, and you still have to come up with the design. Feel free to explain rather than drop another analogy…
Some (many) people find it easier to learn a small number of predefined class names that accomplish what they want without having to know hundreds of different CSS incantations when they’re just trying to make a simple site.
Sorta like how people use a command-line instead of just writing the code themselves.
I am primarily an embedded software engineer. However every now and again I have to write small web apps, having a CSS framework allows me to style it with pre-made classes saving me a boatload of work and learning and having the result look good.
Then I’d just use bootstrap though coz who cares
A CSS framework allows you to not write any CSS! You just add utility classes to your html. I personally use tailwind and I guess there’s some advanced stuff where you’d have to still write CSS yourself but for most use cases it’s a lot easier. Flex layouts, notably, are a breeze.
Aren’t the classes pretty much a 1:1 correspondence to CSS though?
Pretty much yeah, with shortcuts for frequent sizes, colors etc (which you can theme). I guess it’s mostly interesting if you use react, as you can have everything inside components and switch classes in your code. I wouldn’t say it makes things categorically better but it does lighten the cognitive load somewhat and the auto complete is fire.