Comment by Dan W. on "Is it embarrassing to use Bootstrap or any other CSS frameworks?"

Do you think using Bootstrap and other CSS frameworks would make a developer look less competent?

Yes, if you also tell others that it's the only way you know how to create a responsive layout, or if you claim that you love them and you use them as your primary tool.

No, if you tell others that you primarily code responsive layouts without them, but you can handle them if someone requires you work with them.

With Grid Layout and Flexbox support out of the box in CSS, do you think a developer shouldn't rely on frameworks anymore? What are your thoughts on this?

To me, it's FAR easier and quicker for me to code manually using CSS Flexbox and Grid than using CSS frameworks. I can work with CSS frameworks, but the time and effort I need to spend overriding and customizing their defaults nullify the time saved using pre-defined components.

Same to me - copying bootstrap component CSS part from the browser and modifying it according to the needs is faster and more robust than reading 100 docs about bootstrap and then config'ing these components 50 times in a row according to documentation until you bump into the wall with something which can't be done with bootstrap and then you fallback to vanilla-plain CSS again. Libs/Frameworks (be it front or back end) are useful when you want a fast prototyping or simple solution out-of-the-box or a similar feature clone which you have done zillion times. But they are of no use - if you are constructing something really new with very specific needs and want a very specific customization's and/or having specific design/feature fantasies which you must implement as closely to the idea as possible. In this case only plain PHP + HTML + CSS + JAVASCRIPT will help you. That's why you must learn a web constructing FUNDAMENTALS very good and only later you may switch to frameworks. Otherwise you'll be just a "copier"

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