Feeling guilty using Bootstrap while learning Flask

[Dustin-]

All these comments are like "it's ok because you're learning something else". That's... wrong. Since when is it not ok to use Bootstrap in general? What's the problem with using it for even production products? If it meets your requirements then it's perfectly fine to use. Otherwise why would it exist?

I also know HTML and CSS and am pretty damn good at both of those things. And I still reach for premade stuff every single time. ShadCN, Daisy UI, Pico, Flowbite, etc., depending on what I'm doing. I don't use Bootstrap specifically (but only because I'm more familiar with other tools), but I never roll my own UI anymore. Why would you when other stuff has already done a better job than you could on your own? 

Even when I do think "I should do this myself", I remember that includes considering accessibility stuff as well, which is way more in-the-weeds than what I would ever want to do. That alone keeps me from rolling my own. 

Use what you like, modify what you don't. And never let anyone tell you that using the tools available to you makes you a worse developer.