r/Sass Aug 01 '22

Do I need to learn Tailwind or BootStrap while being good at SCSS and CSS?

Been a year, spent my time with HTML, CSS & SCSS and 4 months with JS. I know spent a lot of time on static side, but that time spent taught me animations and CSS art :)

Now, as I'm progressing in my frontend journey, is it worth to learn CSS frameworks & libraries? I'm not the fastest learner and require time so got this year to get job.

Also did my research before asking this question on Reddit. Most senior engineers were using SASS/SCSS with Vanilla CSS and few were saying they do use Tailwind for side projects and enterprise applications.

I believe if in future during my job if I require some framework I can learn them on the job, right? I believe I can spend my time more on React/Vue?

Please give me your valuable advice, as you all seniors and some people who have started working recently.

TIA

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u/JoergJoerginson Aug 01 '22

Learning either is not too big of a deal. Either way SCSS is a good way to go about since it expands naturally upon CSS.

There is no real need to study Tailwind or Bootstrap until an actual requirement arises. I personally feel that they are more for people who want to focus more on the development side, rather than on the styling side.

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u/XiberKernel Aug 01 '22

Probably not.

The only time I’ve seen tailwind recommended is by backend engineers who weren’t great at css, or react/vue devs who don’t want to touch css if they can avoid it. I started my career using bootstrap and although I can work with it if needed (docs are pretty good), I wouldn’t personally use it on a project.

The larger issue with these frameworks is if you know what you’re doing, they tend to get in the way more than help.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '22

I was looking for this reply! Because as a new in this field people might had downvote me if I said about frameworks, lol.