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Ask HN: Gumby Framework vs. Bootstrap?
Has anyone used Gumby Framework? This seems to be a fork of Foundation with added features like Responsive Images, Toggles & Switches, Fancy Tiles, Shuffle etc. It has flexible Grid where you can change the columns from 12 columns to any number you like or embed a grid within a grid. Also the grids seem to be not restricted to 960px. I would like to know if anyone has used it and if so how was your experience? Do the extra features make a big difference? How does it fare against bootstrap?
Gumby: http://gumbyframework.com
Bootstrap: http://getbootstrap.com/
- lsiunsuex 12y agoI've been a big fan of Bootstrap since V2 - have used it on over 10 websites from Wordpress to completely custom. I think it's more of a matter of what you use first and get ust to; at this point, both are pretty similar to each other and any gaps can be filled in with additional jQuery plugins. Lately, I've been using a grid from unsemantic.com - it has 20 divisions based on a grid-5 system and supports back to IE7 which some of my clients require - I roll that with bootstraps JS file for good results, but even that has fallen short sometimes - needing to add a grid-49 and a grid-2 to get layouts just right. All of them continue to fall short though - requiring multiple media queries in my css file to account for various screen sizes for a pixel perfect layout causing me to consider rolling my own. Which in the end means; there is no perfect grid system. You either use an existing one and work around the limitations, or don't use one and do more work from scratch.
- sharmi 12y agoThanks Lsiunsuex. I'm more of a beginner and I doubt I'll ever run into the kind of needs that you had. What I would like to know is more along these lines. I'm a back end developer trying to learn frontend too. While bootstrap has by far the most resources online, it is often accused of being too uniform and hard to customise. I have heard good things about gumby especially that it is easy to customise. Since gum by is an upcoming framework, I would like to know if it will gain traction. Would I be wise to invest my time in gumby instead of bootstrap? Since I do not have much knowledge about UI, I'm not able to access both.