How Popular is Twitter Bootstrap right now? • Hacker News Board

Re: How Popular is Twitter Bootstrap right now?

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Post by imothee » Fri, Sep 23, 2011, 6:36 AM UTC

diegogomes wrote: post #7

gmig wrote: post #2

https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/graphs/traffic

cool link. but i'm curious to see it in "production" enviromments!

I launched a site in production using a slightly modified bootstrap. It was a weekend project I showed off here.

Unless it gains traction, spending any time or money on a themeforest design just seems like a waste. If it takes off then I can always get it professionally designed later!

Plus, bootstrap looks amazing and the design of the site got a ton of complements from non-technical folk.

Re: How Popular is Twitter Bootstrap right now?

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Post by zachwill » Fri, Sep 23, 2011, 7:12 AM UTC

At Code for America we're using for a number of internal projects — it's incredibly easy to customize, and the code itself is surprisingly well-written.

Re: How Popular is Twitter Bootstrap right now?

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Post by ig1 » Fri, Sep 23, 2011, 10:06 AM UTC

I used it for http://analyticsrock.com/ - initially I was using 960js and a bunch of other CSS projects, but Bootstrap allowed me to replace almost all of them resulting in a much cleaner code base.

Re: How Popular is Twitter Bootstrap right now?

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Post by sixbit » Fri, Sep 23, 2011, 11:22 AM UTC

dchuk wrote: post #20

sixbit wrote: 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?

https://github.com/seyhunak/twitter-bootstrap-rails I didn't create it, but it's useful in a rails 3.1 / Heroku Cedar env.

Re: How Popular is Twitter Bootstrap right now?

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Post by Creyels » Fri, Sep 23, 2011, 11:44 AM UTC

For people that are curious about other websites using it.

http://builtwithbootstrap.tumblr.com/ A showcase of sites and apps built on Twitter's Bootstrap toolkit.

This has been posted before and is not my site.

However, we are also using it building our MVP.

Re: How Popular is Twitter Bootstrap right now?

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Post by coutud » Fri, Sep 23, 2011, 12:00 PM UTC

ig1 wrote: post #23

I used it for http://analyticsrock.com/ - initially I was using 960js and a bunch of other CSS projects, but Bootstrap allowed me to replace almost all of them resulting in a much cleaner code base.

Glad you introduced me to it, it is really an awesome lib.

Re: How Popular is Twitter Bootstrap right now?

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Post by jamesgeck0 » Fri, Sep 23, 2011, 1:27 PM UTC

socratic wrote: 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…

When they say "grep", they appear to literally be running grep on four billion documents[1]. I'm assuming that is a significantly more expensive operation than their normal search algorithm as it won't use whatever search tree they've got set up.

1. http://blog.blekko.com/2011/09/13/get-ready-to-grep-the-web/

Re: How Popular is Twitter Bootstrap right now?

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Post by posabsolute » Fri, Sep 23, 2011, 1:30 PM UTC

I think bootstrap is perfect for internal products, generally those product have low budget, and using bootstrap give you a nice design and "guidelines",

It will also consolidate all your product with one interface which is always nice.

I think it is also good for mvp, thing is, yeah as said earlier, if everyone start having project looking the same its not going to be good, and the first impression might change from wow i like this product, to ah, another twitter bootstrap project

Re: How Popular is Twitter Bootstrap right now?

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Post by sunchild » Fri, Sep 23, 2011, 1:40 PM UTC

posabsolute wrote: post #28

I think bootstrap is perfect for internal products, generally those product have low budget, and using bootstrap give you a nice design and "guidelines", It will also consolidate all your product with one interface which is always nice. I think it is also good for mvp, thing is, yeah as said earlier, if everyone start having project looking the same its not going to be good, and the first impression might change from…

I use Bootstrap in this way. I just pulled the components I wanted, and appreciate how self-contained it is.

Re: How Popular is Twitter Bootstrap right now?

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Post by j45 » Fri, Sep 23, 2011, 4:09 PM UTC

I started with including bootstrap linked from github to try it out and ended up keeping it. Ended up writing an entire weekend project in it. It's a great way to simply organize your site and keep it looking nice.

If you're a themeforest person you can totally use bootstrap to override for better form elements and still enjoy a decent theme.

It's seeing a lot of nice updates regularly too, which is nice. I was really happy to see the drop down menu on the menu bar.