Idea: Replace Bootstrap?

[mcmire]

Bootstrap is a fine project if you always want to use the default UI elements and never want to have your own CSS or customize the UI in any way. Once you reach even a short point after starting to use Bootstrap, though, it gets progressively more and more difficult to customize. (This is the problem with UI frameworks in general, by the way.) It would be better and easier in the long run if we used our own CSS. There are a couple of routes we could take:

• Use our own design system borrowed from the extension
  • This might be difficult considering we've never tried to extract this (to my knowledge)
• Use something like Tailwind to build our own UI
  • This would be best combined with the switch to React
  • This is not as hard as it sounds — we may have to spend time up front to add styles for buttons, text inputs, etc. but in my experience Tailwind is incredibly easy to get started with, and you don't really have to think about best practices or file organization

[mcmire]

I'm going to close this actually. This was just an idea but it seems very very low priority.

[mcmire]

Reviving this, as it seems like if we ever wanted to redesign the test dapp then Bootstrap may not be as useful as it is today. Definitely low-priority though.