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How Popular is Twitter Bootstrap right now?

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Re: How Popular is Twitter Bootstrap right now?

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post #8

what's interesting is what a need there was in the market for such a project. just a good looking set of defaults that hackers can start using and make things look good. i think this thing will blow up if they add some mobile components too. getskeleton.com or cssgrid.net etc.

A mobile Twitter bootstrap would be a killer feature! Also, i had never worked with LESS before, and i'm loving it!

Re: How Popular is Twitter Bootstrap right now?

#13
I was previously using 960GS as my starting point and Bootstrap is a significant improvement because it comes with better default theming and the LESS layout is robust so I can churn out better looking designs quicker. It's also more flexible since you can specify an arbitrary number of columns not just 12 16 or 24.

Re: How Popular is Twitter Bootstrap right now?

#14

I also need help with wich patterns should i use. I added: bootstrap.min.css bootstrap-1.1.1.min.css bootstrap-1.0.0min.css You can pick only 3, do you think i got it right?

You should not request another report. You should upvote this one and wait till results come out.

Re: How Popular is Twitter Bootstrap right now?

#17
post #9

The last discussion of Twitter Bootstrap seemed to end pretty ambiguously. Is Twitter Bootstrap what everyone should be using to make their MVP when they don't have a designer? Or is it sufficiently non-cross-platform compatible and specific to Twitter's requirements (no jQuery/jQuery UI?) that one should just use another admin theme from Theme Forest? (Also, Blekko somehow supports grep on its dataset, but doesn't s…

That's an interesting point -- Bootstrap can really help out on projects who don't have the time or money for a designer, where that project would otherwise look like a Geocities page.

At the foursquare hackathon in SF last weekend, there were at least three teams using it. I think it'll get old very quickly unless someone writes some sort of generator to customize the way it looks. But until then, I think it looks solid and has a lot more uses than anything on ThemeForest.

Re: How Popular is Twitter Bootstrap right now?

#18
Very cool for prototyping. Using the lesscss version for my side project now and feeling comfortable. I just added the github repo as a submodule in my project's repo. Also, if you are worried about writing semantic CSS - I have a small snippet on my blog http://blog.akash.im/semantic-css-with-twitters-bootstrap that'll help.

Re: How Popular is Twitter Bootstrap right now?

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I am using it as a template for a side project and we decided to switch our internal tools over to it within my company to limit the amount of time we waste trying to make our tools look just right when we're the only ones looking at them.

We use compass (sass), haml, coffeescript, and sinatra for most of our stuff, so our apps are super clean and easy to manage. There is a Twitter bootstrap compass port on github too.

Re: How Popular is Twitter Bootstrap right now?

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post #15

Love it, using v 1.3 as a ruby gem in dev and 1.1 in production: https://www.tentative.ly . Worked out well for our product, moved to it from Blueprint/Compass.

link to the gem version of it? Did you create it yourself or are you using something 3rd party?
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