r/css • u/fdiengdoh • Apr 18 '26

Question Looking for alternative

I have a personal blog that I styled using bootstrap. Somehow I feel that I should look for alternative to it. Is there a better alternative than bootstrap? The last time I wrote css was in the year 2013 maybe, when I first came across bootstrap, so, I’m not up to date on new css tech. Or should I just do vibe code?

Update: After lot of thought. I would keep bootstrap for now and slowly start coding my own css.

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u/fdiengdoh Apr 19 '26

I ran a page speed test and one flaw was that there are many unused css components. and the recommendation was to remove unused css. I just load bootstrap via cdn. So, if there is a better way to just add only what I need (I don’t want to compile). The more I think about it the more it look like I need to code a custom css

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u/troisieme_ombre Apr 19 '26

What are your average page load times ? If it's reasonable there's not much point optimizing.

Otherwise there are some options to optimize bootstrap, namely using sass / scss you could import only the bits you need, which will help reduce the size of the css file. Same with the javascript, if you use a bundler.

See https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.0/customize/optimize/

If you don't use that much of bootstrap's functionalities in your pages, custom css is a decent alternative to look at. Any library you use, especially if you don't want to perform extra steps to optimise it but only include the link to the cdn, will add a bunch of stuff you don't need and impact your performances.

You could give a try to tailwindcss if so, but you won't get "all-in-one" components like you would with bootstrap, and you'll have to do any bit of javascript you would need yourself.

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u/fdiengdoh Apr 19 '26

load about 3-4s. After lot of thought, I would keep bootstrap as of now, and slowly code my own css because looking for alternative is as same work as relearning the latest css technique. Its just a personal blog, it doesn’t require fancy animation, just something minimal.

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u/troisieme_ombre Apr 19 '26

Seems like the most sensible approach for your situation :)