CSS Grid or Bootstrap 4: What should I be learning now?

[Nancy OShea]

Hopefully this topic doesn't get hijacked & locked like my other one did .   

[Locked] Bootstrap 3 vs 4: which should I use?

Web developers have a lot of choices between libraries, frameworks and core technologies these days.  But if we spend time learning every little thing out there, we won't have time to work on projects.  So what's a developer to do? 

Video blogger  Stefan Mischook had this to say (15 minutes).

CSS Grid Crash Course by Traversy Media (27 minutes).

Nancy

[osgood_]

I feel quite liberated at this moment. l was working too many hours just to keep on top of everything. Now with fewer clients onboard it gives me the opportunity to get back my life which was fast becoming eat, drink and sleep web developing.

I will see what happens over the coming months. If my passion returns l will carry on if it doesnt l will walk away. Theres more to life than web development, its taken me wsy, way too long to finally discover that. Im not going to continuue half assed though, thats  just not my style.

[pziecina]

Just came across this comment -

1. secretboot

   I have a bootstrap. Simple web pages are made with bootstrap. I’m not a designer. Do you really need to learn CSS grid layout? Who needs a grid layout? Who needs a bootstrap?

   March 1st, 2018 at 22:07
   1. Josh Marinacci

      With CSS grid there is much less need for bootstrap. You can build complex layouts with just a very small amount of code.

      March 2nd, 2018 at 11:38

In -

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/02/css-grid-for-ui-layouts/

Whilst I do not agree with Josh's comments in the article regarding flexbox, I did think the comment relevant to the discussion, and the article possibly helpfull.

[pziecina]

Nancy OShea​

I was looking at the support stats for css variable, calc() and a number of other css specs in relation to another discussion, and found that many of the css specs that are stable but not widely though usable by many, are as well, (sometimes better) supported than css grids, so much of css that is/has been ignored is now I think also usable along with css grids, as an alternative to using bootstrap 4.

What I think is missing in the Adobe world is somewhere we can get or post articles, information and/or examples regarding css, (plus other specs). We used to have the developer network, css advisor and the Adobe web platform, all of which are no longer relevant, or have been dropped completely.

As the presenter in the 1st video you posted says, "core techs will always win", but over the last few years very little about subjects such as css grids and the newer core techs is available that is relevant to the web developer, as everything I can find only ever mentions the final specs being used, and never how to create fallback, even when that fallback is simply adding the code for an older version of the specs.