Ask HN: Does anyone use CSS Flexbox in production?

2 points by pattle 10y ago ↗ HN

I'm interested to hear if anyone here uses CSS flexbox in production and to what degree?

On the face of it flexbox solves a lot of the common layout problems you come across when writing CSS but every time I've tried to use it in the past I always got inconsistencies and strange bugs. However that was quite a while ago now.

I'd be grateful if anyone could share their experiences / problems they've come across

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zilean 10y ago ↗

Shipped several apps with flexbox layouts. If you use autoprefixer and dont touch advanced features it works like a charm on modern browsers.

Nadya 10y ago ↗

Yes - shipping with Modernizer and targetting `.no-flex` browsers to provide fallbacks of course.

80% of the time we use it for vertical centering so the fallback can be `display: table` with the children being `display:table-cell` and it rarely gets more complex than that.

If you need something very complex to do what you want - I have a strong hunch the markup is the problem and not the CSS. Or you're trying to avoid using Javascript and are instead relying on a bunch of half-supported and new CSS features to hack your way around things. Which means you probably aren't coding for production anyway. :)