
Tailwind CSS vs Bootstrap - Why Developers Are Ditching Bootstrap and Never Looking Back 🎨
The CSS Framework War Nobody Asked For (But Everyone Has Opinions About) Let's be real — picking a CSS framework feels like choosing your starter Pokémon. You commit, you invest time, and then someone on Twitter tells you that you made the wrong choice. For years, Bootstrap was the framework. You wanted a navbar? Bootstrap. A modal? Bootstrap. A button that looked like it belonged on a government website from 2013? Still Bootstrap. It worked, and it worked reliably. Nobody got fired for using Bootstrap. But then Tailwind CSS showed up, and the frontend world quietly started having a crisis. Suddenly, developers were writing className="flex items-center justify-between px-6 py-3 bg-orange-500 text-white rounded-lg" and enjoying it. No more custom CSS files. No more fighting specificity wars. No more "why does this div have margin I didn't ask for?!" So the real question is — is Tailwind actually better than Bootstrap, or is it just new and shiny? Buckle up, because we're about to break
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