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What I Learned Building Twitter Bootstrap

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Re: What I Learned Building Twitter Bootstrap

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Post by mintplant »

jenius wrote: post #25

Dear fat, This post comes off to me as cocky and untrue. First, the general tone of this seems very pompous to me. To me, it reads: "I know so much that even building the most popular project on github and possibly of any library on the web can't teach me anything new." It might have been a little more gracious perhaps to thank people for using and contributing to the project...? Also, you definitely learned somethin…

> I didn’t think I’d learn anything building Bootstrap.

Key word here is "think". As in, before he started the project.

Re: What I Learned Building Twitter Bootstrap

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Post by willholloway »

cryowaffle wrote: post #17
fat wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

aww <3

I have used Bootstrap on 4 or so sites by now and its amazing how divs just get the fuck out of my way now and I can get real work done. Thank you.

Yes. Bootstrap's grid system saves the day, everyday.

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Post by joshuacc »

smegel wrote: post #33

Is Bootstrap mainly for CSS? Or should it be viewed as a fully-blown alternative to HTML5BP? I would love to read a guide on how to incorporate Bootstrap with other tools like HTML5BP and the Javascript framework of my choice.

Bootstrap is primarily a CSS framework with some accompanying JavaScript (jQuery) plugins to provide things like tooltips and popovers.

You can very easily use it with HTML5 Boilerplate. You incorporate it in exactly the same way you would any external CSS file. And if you want to use their JavaScript you add that the same way you add any other JavaScript.

Re: What I Learned Building Twitter Bootstrap

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Post by iguana »

While this post is a bit on the brogramming side (I would actually love to read what you learned from the project technically, and why you made certain design decisions), I have to give you and @mdo props for building Bootstrap.

I have to say that Bootstrap is the best thing that has happened to client side web development since jQuery, even if the web is doomed to drown in an ocean of Bootstrap-looking sites.

Re: What I Learned Building Twitter Bootstrap

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Post by codewright »

callmeed wrote: post #15

I met a Twitter engineer at startup school who said any side projects had to be approved by Twitter's legal team. Was this the case with Bootstrap? Also, was it put on Twitter's GitHub account in order to increase visibility?

>any side projects had to be approved by Twitter's legal team

Welp, they're out of the running for any future work now.

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