"Freelancers don't care about trends. They care about turn around time." So true! Also the reason many full time devs can't finish their side projects like myself :). Learn a stack and stick with it.
As I have been using Bootstrap, Tailwind, Vuetify, and many other components libraries, I have to admit, as much as I love Tailwind, I developed faster and get functionality I wanted using Bootstrap or other components library, compared to Tailwind. For example, UI components like input fields are most used in my projects. It was slow to style those with Tailwind and cover accessibility aspect also. Most of the components libraries have accessibility aspect covered. I love Tailwind but for type of projects I developed, they required complex UI and components libraries does better job. In my opinion, if you are developing a web page or blog, then it probably fine to style them using Tailwind.
You can also use unstyled component for most frameworks, which cover the accessibility and status propagation/logic parts without any default styling, so you can be specific on what you want or not and how to style it. And/or use preset styles
I bought the bootstrap 4 course when I started on frontend and that was a game changer em my career. For sure i'll take this boostrap 5 course as well. Thanks Brad.
I tried using Bootstrap a long time ago and I absolutely LOATHED it! The major thing about Bootstrap is really understanding how the flow and specificities of CSS works. That being said, if you don't understand CSS and can't recreate a landing page with using just Flexbox or Grid, DON'T start using Bootsrap yet! Practice makes perfect. You are building websites, not designing them. Kinda went on a rant here, but I may give Boostrap another chance since I have a better grasp with CSS
Legend. I follow you for so many years that when someone asks me how I learned how to code I talk about you as if I know you in person hahaha. Thank you man, education is the future. Please, never stop
Been hoping you'll do a Bootstrap 5 course. I've just enrolled on your website. Thanks for all the effort you put into these courses, they are the best.
Hi Brad, thanks for the course, for still adding to the udemy, for the discount at udemy. Now a few things about bootstrap: good: they removed jquery in newest verson (v5) if you starting new project. bad: for those using v4 will be a hell to migrate to v5, since they remove jquery and a lot of changes, which was expected with evolution of css bad: when they release v5, they miss the chance to improve theirs grid system with native css grid, instead of still using flex box,, this is why why some dev that understand well css move to tailwind, you have the flexibility to do your way with newest css features. About your course: why you choose for icons font-awesome instead of using bootstrap icons own library? since they add day after day new icons. thanks.
I love love love tailwind, but your course on bootstrap seems like it’s going to get me where I need to be to get my first job aLot faster than your tailwind course. Glad you came out with this. I really needed it.
Trends are the worst thing you can do in tech. Use things that solve the problem you want to solve. If your freelancing or your an entrepreneur solo dev making your own projects the don't fall for tech trends, use whatever helps you get your job, project, business done faster and easier.
Brad, can you teach us how to optimize bootstrap websites for load speed? There's a lot of unused CSS and I'm struggling to remove it. The documentation isn't very clear about optimization. The only thing missing on the course is a optimization lesson. Other than that, the course is great.
You know what Brad, you are really honest, I love that about you. I have same view, if I can achieve something via simple bootstrap classes why should I go for trendy cool feature which makes me stuck somewhere I don't know in react or other projects. So Thankyou for this video and boosting my confidence
More content like this please! I've been away from RU-vid due to the lack of job related stuff. Everything is Next Nuxt Sveltekit tailwind... that's all great but not great for jobs like you said. I did an interview for a job a few weeks ago and I was talking about my VueJs and Tailwind projects and I might as well have been talking a foreign language. The response I got was "but do you know jQuery and bootstrap?" 😅
Hey Brad! Could you please add the controls for media-player at your website with courses just to have "forward" and "backward" buttons to switch the lessons!
Is it possible to just use the cool kids' tools and override, over time, the "old" tools? or the transition phase would be messy? Some companies require the knowledge of the old tools, although, theoretically, we can use both at the same time temporarily.
Brad, or someone please explain why not custom build these components instead of using 3rd party? Won't we learn more building it from scratch? Example: You said using a 3rd party script using Light Box ...etc, or in the past you used a 3rd party CMS. Brad, this one thing I never understood about your tutorial videos (they're still the best though).
@@siddiqahmed3274 These are tutorials, what do you learn using 3rd party scripts? Why then not 3rd party every aspect of the website? Like pre-made website layouts?
@@TheHandHistoryVault this is bootstrap tutorial and not javascript. You can take his javascript course to learn it and then use it to build things however you like. secondly you can of course use pre-made website layouts but i doubt you can make adjustments to it without knowing the underlying language, so yeah learning a language is important, but building everything from scratch every time is just waste of time.
Hi Brad I tried to buy the course on your site but it was for some reason more expensive than Udemy. I have bought a few of your courses on there but i would like to now how can I get access to your dicord server?
Bootstrap provides components like navbars, pop ups, alerts etc while tailwind provides classes like flex for display: flex so that you dont have to write css just put classes in your html
@@siddiqahmed3274 I took the threejs-journey and had a section on React, React 3 Fiber, and Drei... Which I find really cool. But then I figured, oh no ... now I need to know React? But what I love about is the component system and separation of concerns. I am tired of writing spaghetti code with static web sites. So it's on my radar.
@@djumeauyou can use both, react is a component based library used for building user interfaces. And since bootstrap provides components you can use both together.
Yes, Bootstrap is "being used" by legacy projects. I don't see people use / recommend Bootstrap for new projects. But I respect your opinion. Fun fact: it is Joomla and Opencart "hell" which influenced me to become a self-taught web application developer.
Hi Brad, with the Udemy course, do you get the same documentation you get with your own online course? Just that in Australia the Udemy is much cheaper for me, than using the USA $dollar. Thanks Carlo
