RE: Websites that work on mobiles and desktops alike (Responsive)
February 12, 2018 at 7:17 pm
(This post was last modified: February 12, 2018 at 7:18 pm by bennyboy.)
In my experience, media query + a little javascript is plenty powerful enough: I would definitely shy away from libraries in favor of hand-designing everything myself.
Production libraries tend to put out pretty complex-looking code, and I've sometimes spent more time trying to figure out how the heck something was supposed to work (so I could add to it or customize it) than it would have taken me just to create the functionality from scratch.
Overall, I'd say this is the rule: the less you know, the more productive you will be with 3rd-party solutions as compared to doing things by hand. The more you know, the less you will want to learn the features of this-or-that new thing, and just get straight into organizing your project
The only exception is really big things that you could never do on your own-- graphic engines, complex statistical analysis, AI, etc. (assuming you haven't spent the time to learn about these things)
Production libraries tend to put out pretty complex-looking code, and I've sometimes spent more time trying to figure out how the heck something was supposed to work (so I could add to it or customize it) than it would have taken me just to create the functionality from scratch.
Overall, I'd say this is the rule: the less you know, the more productive you will be with 3rd-party solutions as compared to doing things by hand. The more you know, the less you will want to learn the features of this-or-that new thing, and just get straight into organizing your project
The only exception is really big things that you could never do on your own-- graphic engines, complex statistical analysis, AI, etc. (assuming you haven't spent the time to learn about these things)
