Tailwind CSS or Bootstrap?

Choosing the Best CSS Framework for Your Site: Bootstrap vs. Tailwind CSS

In web development, cascading style sheets (CSS) are used to style HTML. You can write vanilla CSS, use a CSS framework, use a preprocessor like Sass, or use a combination of all three to style your webpage. There are many different ways to use CSS and many tools to pick from. You might have heard of Bootstrap or Tailwind CSS being mentioned here and there while looking for a framework or tool to use in your project. They’re both CSS frameworks that can help speed up production time — but between these two, which one should you use?

About Bootstrap CSS Framework

Bootstrap was originally released on August 19, 2011. It was initially created by designers and developers at Twitter and used to be known as “Twitter Blueprint”. After Twitter held their own hackathon and publicized the project as an open-sourced framework, the project snowballed as other developers pitched in to help its development. Bootstrap remains free and open-source under the MIT license.

The Bootstrap framework can best be described as a component-based framework. Component-based CSS frameworks are made up of predefined components, or parts, that can be used to style HTML, making responsive website development faster and easier.

Layouts

Layout classes help structure the overall layout of the webpage. Bootstrap is based on a twelve column system that uses flexbox grid to build layouts. As you might have noticed in the example above, container, row, and col-* are some of Bootstrap’s layout classes.