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I've started reaching for display: grid; over display: flex; recently, even in cases where I'm not really working with a two-dimensional grid. Grid's fractional units often work really well with the designs I'm working on; better than flex-grow/shrink for sure.

It feels like the end of an era for me.

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I don’t know why but I can’t get comfortable with the grid syntax, it feels as esoteric as writing a regular expression.

I avoided it for the longest time, probably cause I know flex so well. It definitely has a learning curve, but it's one of those things where you can get pretty far by learning like 20% of it and then learn the rest bit by bit.

Here's a tiny Codepen using grid where I woulda used flex before

I avoided it for the longest time, probably cause I know flex so well. It definitely has a learning curve, but it's one of those things where you can get pretty far by learning like 20% of it and then learn the rest bit by bit.

Here's a tiny Codepen using grid where I woulda used flex before https://codepen.io/dgca/pen/JjQzqyq