# Bootstrap 5 or Tailwind for style customizability and speed?

**URL:** https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/bootstrap-5-or-tailwind-for-style-customizability-and-speed/5160
**Category:** Frameworks
**Tags:** css
**Created:** [March 25, 2021, 3:04pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/bootstrap-5-or-tailwind-for-style-customizability-and-speed/5160 "2021-03-25T15:04:52Z")
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### Author: ![justux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a587f6/32.png) [@justux](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/justux)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2021, 3:04pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/bootstrap-5-or-tailwind-for-style-customizability-and-speed/5160/1 "2021-03-25T15:04:52Z")

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Hey everyone 👋

I’ve been observing Pinegrow for a couple of months now and decided to give it a try.  
I’m a product designer and my work mainly consists of designing interfaces and the occasional landing page on Oxygen for WP.

I’m going to use Pinegrow to build the interfaces for a web app, and I was wondering if I could get your opinions on which framework would be best for my case. I’m looking mainly for two things - full control over styles, and speed.

- I’ve read a bit that Bootstrap’s styles are hard to undo - is that still the case with Bootstrap 5?

- Also, is Tailwind really that much faster than the rest of the frameworks (and if so, do I need to manually remove unused styles)?

I would appreciate any input since I’m just starting out.

Thanks for checking my post and sorry if the questions sound stupid.

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### Author: ![RobM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@RobM](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/RobM)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2021, 3:30pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/bootstrap-5-or-tailwind-for-style-customizability-and-speed/5160/2 "2021-03-25T15:30:34Z")

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Hi @justux,  
Both Bootstrap and Tailwind are a little opinionated. Is there any reason to incorporate a framework? Depending on how complicated your layouts are it might be easier to just create your own styles from scratch.

However, both Bootstrap and Tailwind can be put through a post-design CSS processor to remove unused styles. Both should be pretty quick.  
Bob

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### Author: ![justux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a587f6/32.png) [@justux](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/justux)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2021, 11:38am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/bootstrap-5-or-tailwind-for-style-customizability-and-speed/5160/3 "2021-03-26T11:38:31Z")

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Hi Bob,

Thank you for your quick reply.  
The layouts are not that complicated but I don’t have much experience with structuring my classes (should I go for utility class structure or not?) or dealing with interactive elements such as drop-downs.

My thinking was that I could use a framework, customize some of the ready-made elements, and remove all unused classes. I’ve just read a tutorial here and I’m going to try it today: [The complete guide to customizing a Tailwind CSS theme](https://pinegrow.com/tutorials/customizing-a-tailwind-css-theme/)

I also tried the browser-sync feature and it works great on desktop, however, when I access my external link, only the HTML loads without any style. I’m guessing it’s because Tailwind hasn’t be compiled?

So many questions, so little knowledge 😃