Had a senior dev tell me to stop over-engineering my CSS grid layouts

He said I was wasting time with complex patterns when flexbox could handle 90% of use cases. I argued back for weeks until I spent 3 hours refactoring a dashboard page and cut my code by 40 lines. Anyone else been told to simplify something and fought it only to realize they were right?

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wendy_clark5d ago

Flexbox is just easier to maintain and debug in my experience.

max3885d ago

Totally feel you on this. I've been burned so many times by float-based layouts where one little change breaks the whole thing, and you're left hunting through the CSS for hours. Flexbox just lets me say "hey, put these three boxes in a row and center them" and it actually works without fighting the browser. Debugging is way easier too since you can see the flex properties right there in dev tools. Honestly, once I switched to flexbox for my projects, I never looked back.