Blunt
Dev tools
css framework
SHOW HN2020
How HN took it
3 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 17 critical, out of 31 comments about the project. Thread score -0.42.
Idea: 1 for, 7 againstDesign: 2 for, 4 againstPerformance: 0 for, 4 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Concise, easy-to-read class names
From 1 comment
i-lv-it, rlly cncise nd easy-t-ndrstnd.
seumars on HN
Useful middle ground for simple layout helpers
From 1 comment
from a quick look, Blunt is mostly a (big) bunch of helpers for commonly used stuff like "lay the children out horizontally". i'm not sure if it'll be helpful if you're not very…
uryga on HN
Objections
Stylesheet is about 500KB, too heavy for a minimalist framework
From 3 comments
Minimalist? It's 17609 lines and 553 KB. The 'simple' responsive card example uses 9 divs and 33 classes. This is madness.
perilunar on HNI’m sure this library of classes will be useful for somebody. But the stylesheet weighs in at half a megabyte.
leephillips on HNFirst thought: WTF! I had to take a look. It's a case of combinatorial explosion, e.g. there is a style for every integer up to some max I didn't care to find out, for the…
quickthrower2 on HN
Inline-style-like single-rule classes bloat markup and lack hover and media query support
From 3 comments
Sorry if I sound snarky, but why use this if you can just write: ``` <div style="margin-inline:auto">Center</div> ``` It looks like these are just single rule classes. In my…
runarberg on HNYour critique applies to all of these modern "atomic CSS" frameworks, including Tailwind, Tachyons, and BassCSS. As another user pointed out, inline style attributes lack several…
keb_ on HNInline styles cannot do things like :hover, dont work with media queries, can't be adjusted centrally and so on.
rebotfc on HN
Calling it minimalist is contradictory; minimalists don't use frameworks
From 2 comments
Minimalists don't use frameworks
arkanciscan on HNReal minimalists are using only default styles provided by browser.
butz on HN
Opening readme rant about other frameworks is a poor first impression
From 1 comment
> There seem to be hundreds of these things out there. So why bother with another one? Well, I was sick of fighting with the other options. Most are overly opinionated and result…
trynewideas on HN
Requests
Provide a live example site such as GitHub Pages
From 1 comment
looks like you've already got example code, you should probably make a very basic github pages example site for this as well.
chadlavi on HN
Purge unused classes to shrink the stylesheet
From 2 comments
Yes. I assume he generated the stylesheet programmatically. I guess the intelligent way to use this would be to write some code that detects which classes are actually being used…
leephillips on HNUse purgecss - https://purgecss.com/, its the same strategy employed by tailwindcss. It will filter out all the classes you don't actually use. Tailwind is over 2MB before its…
EnigmaCurry on HN
Questions
How does it compare to Tailwind?
From 1 comment
Can someone comment on Blunt vs. Tailwind?
dstroot on HN
Alternatives named
Tailwind CSS
From 2 comments
Can someone comment on Blunt vs. Tailwind?
dstroot on HNTailwind has a class for almost everything, which makes it quite heavy: 1600kb minified. In my experience you end up with ≤ 15kb of minified CSS after running PurgeCSS anyway, so…
dgut on HN
Tachyons
From 1 comment
I use Tachyons (https://tachyons.io/) whenever I can, for achieving this purpose. It seems the scope is overlapping, and tachyons is a little more mature:…
mahesh_rm on HN
Bootstrap
From 1 comment
I did tons of web pre-CSS days (all my layouts were tables :-D) and have (clearly) been out of the scene for a long time other than the occasional CSS hacking when there wasn't…
freedomben on HN
flexboxgrid
From 1 comment
http://flexboxgrid.com/ Is pretty good - similar to at least one version of bootstrap's grid, but just does the layout
wilsonrocks on HN