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>> Also note that CSS Grid does not deprecate Flexbox

I see this said a lot but in my experience (a) all the cases where I use flexbox eventually get replaced with grid with about the same verbosity but more flexibility and (b) I've noticed subtle bugs when using flexbox with grid that manifest only on some platforms (e.g. On iOS but not on Android, only on some versions, etc).

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CSS grid is strict rows+columns, flexbox is 1-dimensional and allows for controlled wrapping to a second/third/etc row when the row (or column, depending on orientation) is filled.

They have different use cases, it's just that (at least with regards to (a)) everyone's switching because they wanted something like grid in the first place and only had/knew about flexbox. It got you halfway there (we've used multiple flexbox rows that don't wrap to simulate grid, for example), and now they're just going all the way.

I think the parent new all this and was saying that when using flexbox with grid, each for their intended purpos, there are bugs in various browsers for them.

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