Places where flex is currently better

Flexbox and Grid can live together. This isn’t a “one or the other” deal. There are still times where you will want to use Flexbox instead of Grid.

Masonry is a good example. Grids where the number of items is indeterminate are another.

See the Pen Flexbox Masonry by Dave Cross (@davecross) on CodePen.

And what happens if you want those final items to stretch and fill the available space in ways that overlap grid columns? Grid can’t do that.

See the Pen Flexbox stretch to fill width by Dave Cross (@davecross) on CodePen.

And people are still creating amazing things like the Flexbox Albatross (opens new window) that would require a bunch of media queries to do with Grid.

Don’t throw out older tools. They can still be useful.