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Show HN: Strapping – Customize Bootstrap on the fly

24 points by bbrennan 11y ago

bbrennan 11y ago
Would love to build this out more if there's interest, particularly the Extensions section. Any feedback appreciated
jxm262 11y ago
Just glanced, but besides a pretty UI and preview section, I'm not seeing a major difference between this and the customize section of bootstrap (http://getbootstrap.com/customize/ http://getbootstrap.com/customize/). Am I missing something here? What I think would be really cool is if you mashed something like this together with some prebuilt layouts (something like http://startbootstrap.com/template-categories/unstyled/ http://startbootstrap.com/template-categories/unstyled/), and then have more options to do slightly more complex things like a list of font selections, full-site color schemes, etc.. Anyway, not trying to put down your site. It looks pretty clean, just not seeing the need for it personally.
- bbrennan 11y ago
  You're right - right now it's basically a nicer version of getbootstrap.com/customize, with two extras: - You can run it locally (or incorporate it into a NodeJS project) so that making changes in the UI changes a local bootstrap.css. No need to download or copy/paste styles, recompile LESS, etc - User-generated Extensions. Third parties can add bits of LESS that you can incorporate to do things like re-style buttons and alerts, or add new components I also have an open bug to incorporate pre-built bootswatch themes: https://github.com/bobby-brennan/strapping/issues https://github.com/bobby-brennan/strapping/issues This was also a bit of an inspiration: http://bootstrap-live-customizer.com/ http://bootstrap-live-customizer.com/
boksiora 11y ago
real time preview will be awesome addition
- bbrennan 11y ago
  I was thinking the same thing. Just pushed a new version with Live Preview (on large-screen devices) and Bootswatch Themes.
phantom_oracle 11y ago
So this is kind of like a mockup site that generates the website layout for you using bootstrap? If you made a demo video showing folks everything it can do, that would be awesome.
wdstash 11y ago
Reminds me of PaintStrap. When I tried Strapping, my Chrome seems to get overwhelmed and lock up.

24 points by bbrennan 11y ago

Would love to build this out more if there's interest, particularly the Extensions section. Any feedback appreciated

Just glanced, but besides a pretty UI and preview section, I'm not seeing a major difference between this and the customize section of bootstrap (http://getbootstrap.com/customize/ http://getbootstrap.com/customize/). Am I missing something here? What I think would be really cool is if you mashed something like this together with some prebuilt layouts (something like http://startbootstrap.com/template-categories/unstyled/ http://startbootstrap.com/template-categories/unstyled/), and then have more options to do slightly more complex things like a list of font selections, full-site color schemes, etc.. Anyway, not trying to put down your site. It looks pretty clean, just not seeing the need for it personally.

bbrennan 11y ago
You're right - right now it's basically a nicer version of getbootstrap.com/customize, with two extras: - You can run it locally (or incorporate it into a NodeJS project) so that making changes in the UI changes a local bootstrap.css. No need to download or copy/paste styles, recompile LESS, etc - User-generated Extensions. Third parties can add bits of LESS that you can incorporate to do things like re-style buttons and alerts, or add new components I also have an open bug to incorporate pre-built bootswatch themes: https://github.com/bobby-brennan/strapping/issues https://github.com/bobby-brennan/strapping/issues This was also a bit of an inspiration: http://bootstrap-live-customizer.com/ http://bootstrap-live-customizer.com/

boksiora 11y ago

real time preview will be awesome addition

bbrennan 11y ago
I was thinking the same thing. Just pushed a new version with Live Preview (on large-screen devices) and Bootswatch Themes.

phantom_oracle 11y ago

So this is kind of like a mockup site that generates the website layout for you using bootstrap? If you made a demo video showing folks everything it can do, that would be awesome.

wdstash 11y ago

Reminds me of PaintStrap. When I tried Strapping, my Chrome seems to get overwhelmed and lock up.