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I have been using Bootstrap for this entire year on various projects at work. Nobody complained because I was using Bootstrap. In fact, I actually got a lot of
by LeafStorm 14y ago
I have been using Bootstrap for this entire year on various projects at work. Nobody complained because I was using Bootstrap. In fact, I actually got a lot of compliments about how well the projects looked. The fact is, outside Hacker News, nobody cares if you're using Bootstrap. They care if your project doesn't look horrible, and more importantly, they care if your project works.
Now sure, I could learn CSS and do all the stuff you put in the last four sentences. But designing a good-looking style with all the components I needed - grids, buttons, navbars, modal dialogs - would take far longer than unzipping Bootstrap, dropping it in my assets folder, and actually writing the bloody code. Especially since I walked out of the office Friday after emailing my supervisor a two-and-a-half page list of stuff I wanted to get done this year but couldn't.
- TallboyOne 14y agoYou do care about overhead though, right? Bootstrap adds so much unnecessary code you will never use... which is fine for prototyping and bootstrapping, but not for production apps.
- paranoiacblack 14y agoThat's fine, but then you do pruning of the elements you don't need. It's a lot easier to prune than to create every single time. I think the overhead added by Bootstrap is easily covered in the amount of boilerplate coding you get to skip.
- TallboyOne 14y agoSo you're going to add something only to prune out 85%? It's not likely youre going to keep any of the same styling, button styling, modal styling, etc... I like the approach of just using one of the numerous form boilerplates to make your forms pretty (most time-consuming task I think), and roll the rest from scratch. You can make an entire site responsive in not much CSS at all.