Developers often reach for UI frameworks like Bootstrap or Material UI, hoping that they’ll save a bunch of time and quickly build a professional-looking app. Unfortunately, things rarely work out this way. Let’s talk about it.

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You Don’t Need A UI Framework — Smashing Magazine

I Totally Agree 👌 After many years dealing with UI Frameworks like Material And Good old days Bootstrap, I tired of relearning after every major update and refactoring my Web Apps which makes it hard to maintain projects which will be running actively across many years and many major updates of UI Framework!! Now I am all free from them and using my own custom code per each project which is much simpler to customize and maintain, with no dependency to any JS or CSS libraries 😄

you don’t need a UI framework, just use tailwindcss.

Great Article!
I completely agree with this article and this has helped me by validating my decisions in going the custom route with my work. (Thank You!)
I also appreciate the links to the Accessibility tools and I am going to look into these further to see if they will be an aid with the next project in our office.

Unless you are doing an Admin dasbhoard/portal then just buy the template