Grids in the Wild – How Frameworks Implement Grids
We’ve now learned the ins and outs of CSS Grid. We’ve learned most of the things to know and can build beautiful layouts with it. However, we won’t encounter a Vanilla Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) setup in most projects but will use a framework instead. LogRocket published a blog post in 2018 about the history of frontend frameworks, and according to author Michael Wanyoike, the first CSS libraries and frameworks began showing up in the mid-2000s. We can read the full post here: https://blog.logrocket.com/history-of-frontend-frameworks/.
Funnily enough, these frameworks immediately introduced grid systems, showing how much developers longed for grids to be useable on the web without much effort and reinventing the wheel every single time. Of course, once we developed a working system, we would reuse it often, so there were likely a tremendous number of libraries very early on.
In the past, Blueprint...
