You Don’t Need a UI Framework

I tend to always build my css from scratch for each project, directly and live in the developer console.

I just dislike frameworks doing "something" that still needs manual adjustment half of the time, while the resulting css is convoluted and unreadable.

The good thing about writing your own css is that you can structure the stylesheet(s) in a way that makes sense for the project, and you can get quite fast with it. The CSS for a typical small website takes me roughly half a day including mobile and desktop variants.

Honorable mention frameworks like Chakra that have minimal styling but have many quality of life features. At the end of the day I find there’s a trade off with the new benefits of tailwind like or reactive styling of components with an sx prop. I also think that react has the issue of being harder to customize than Vue which has scoped slots.

I am not sure I agree with this for complex webapps. But I do see many brochure websites and news websites that incorporate megabytes of JavaScript and CSS to display text — and I wonder why all that client-side code is necessary.

Just came to the same conclusion after many frustrations with mui-core. Honestly wouldn't mind even building a modal from scratch now.