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Do we even need flex anymore? with Erin Zimmer

Overview of the Talk

Modern CSS Layouts are amazing. We can do stuff that developers of an earlier age only dreamed of. And we can make it responsive at the same time. But, how do you decide what to use? Now that we’ve got grid, do we even need flex anymore? What about normal flow? And floats? Is there ever a time for floats?

In this talk, we’re going to look at the intended use case for each of the layout modes, how to decide between them, and when it just doesn’t matter which you use. And yes, we’ll even find a use case for floats.

Speaker Background

Erin is a Google developer expert, with over ten years experience in a variety of languages, from JavaScript to Model204 (no, nobody else has heard of it either). She is currently Senior Engineer at Atlassian. She is an active member of the Melbourne developer community, and has spoken at conferences around the world. If you see her at a conference, she’ll probably have knitting needles in hand.