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Elemental UI is a competitor, sort of, I guess. But it's not a zero-sum game, and we've learned (and borrowed) a lot from Bootstrap.

More specifically, we're not porting Bootstrap to React but building React-specific components from scratch to fill the same gaps.

Something in particular we're focusing on is building a modular IU toolkit - so you could use all of Elemental, or just our select component / buttons / date picker / etc; all of which would be available as standalone packages on npm, but can leverage a consistent thumbing system and play nicely together.

(And yes - we'll fix that modal issue soon with a pure css approach; a community member wanted to implement it with JavaScript but it hasn't worked out well)

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So if Elemental is a competitor to Bootstrap, would you be able to point out some reasons to use this rather than React Bootstrap? It appears the elements are almost identical to Bootstrap, but with far less number of them so far.

Semantic UI is a competitor as well, but that library has a number of styling options and UI features that Bootstrap does not have. Semantic doesn't seem to have a complete port to React yet, particularly with some of the more advanced controls (sidebar, sticky elements, certain modals, etc.)

(And yes - we'll fix that modal issue soon with a pure css approach; a community member wanted to implement it with JavaScript but it hasn't worked out well)

Can I ask what you mean by this? I'm just getting into react and that sentence is a pretty big red flag..... you mean you cant just do return false and it breaks react?

I phrased it badly - I meant the modal scroll handling that was implemented hasn't worked out well, no red flags for React here. position: fixed is a more robust way of positioning modals, the current version watches the scroll event and updates the modal's position which is pretty janky; and it does some not-great things manipulating overflow on the body too, which causes the bug mentioned. We'll be fixing that in the next release.

gotcha, thanks!

Not intended as a loaded question: How come you're building a full form system yourself rather than leaning on formsy or similar?

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