Compare Tailwind CSS vs. Bootstrap to learn the key differences and discover and what's next for the utility-first framework.

Luke Janssen

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Is this a right comparison?
I mean, bootstrap is a component-ready library, just copy and paste already made component in css (with a specific purpose) and html and here you go.
But with tailwind is another story: it is literally style traduced in classes but with presets to avoid inconsistency.
We can treat tailwind as a low level library and bootstrap as an already built design-system.
If you are looking for a right comparison maybe you would consider daisyui and bootstrap

idk i prefer bootstrap, so much easier imo

I have never had a challenge quickly customizing bootstrap…I like it because its clean and concise within the markup…also, I have seen downsides to excessive creativity and the main culprit is UX expectations (navigation location links, menu styling, link highlighting, etc.) the standards end-users rely on as intuitive hints for appropriate UI can become confusing if abused. On the issue of coding web apps, I need to focus on the business logic of the code, not the unique pretty of the UI-interface. a good axiom to follow should be business logic first, UI-presentation second, and all should rely on standardized UX principles. The one exception I can think of may be Vuetify, because the UI is the code logic and the code logic is the UI…