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Bootstrap 4 Beta 2

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Re: Bootstrap 4 Beta 2

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Post by andygcook »

badgers wrote: post #31
andygcook wrote: post #8

I've been using the Bootstrap 4 beta for a couple weeks building a side project ( https://nanagram.co ) and I must say, it's been great to use. The built in utilities for responsive views and spacing are especially useful. Made optimizing the homepage for multiple screen sizes super fast and not painful at all. The Beta 1 had pretty good documentation and seemed pretty mature as well. Looking forward to upgrading to…

Your side project nanagram reminds me of a similar service, Pidgeonly, which allowed people to text photos to inmates that heard on an NPR podcast -- http://www.npr.org/2015/03/25/395238624/ex-inmate-uses-his-s...

I hadn’t seen that. Sounds like an amazing story and will definitely check it out. Thanks for sharing.

Re: Bootstrap 4 Beta 2

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Post by andygcook »

Dowwie wrote: post #38
andygcook wrote: post #8

I've been using the Bootstrap 4 beta for a couple weeks building a side project ( https://nanagram.co ) and I must say, it's been great to use. The built in utilities for responsive views and spacing are especially useful. Made optimizing the homepage for multiple screen sizes super fast and not painful at all. The Beta 1 had pretty good documentation and seemed pretty mature as well. Looking forward to upgrading to…

Have you considered using a guilt-driven pricing schedule? "Emotionally Distant Grandchild" , "Good Grandchild", "Nana's #1"

This comment actually made me laugh out loud.

We didn’t put much thought into the pricing plan names to be honest. Will pitch this to my brother, who I built this out with over the last couple months.

Re: Bootstrap 4 Beta 2

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Post by th0br0 »

andygcook wrote: post #21
th0br0 wrote: post #17

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Germany. Something like this also needs the ability to delay shipments - old people are more likely to be admitted to hospitals or similar.

That's a good point too and something we hadn't considered. Would it work if the package was just delivered in the mail as usual and they could open it when they got home as something to look forward to?

That assumes that old people live at home / have a regular mail box. What if they live in a nursing home or similar? Although 4x6 (10x15cm) is postcard format, so usual mailboxes should fit quite a number of those just fine.

Re: Bootstrap 4 Beta 2

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Post by tengbretson »

kbenson wrote: post #26
myf01d wrote: post #4

I know I am going to be downvoted so hard, but really it's very easy to build you own css these days, css frameworks look an easy solution for beginning your project but they become a burden gradually as your project grows

Really it's very easy to build your own web application framework these days, existing web application frameworks look an easy solution for beginning your project but they become a burden gradually as your project grows. Really it's very easy to build your own database software these days, database servers look an easy solution for beginning your project but they become a burden gradually as your project grows. Reall…

These comparisons are incredibly dishonest.

Re: Bootstrap 4 Beta 2

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Post by cknoxrun »

andygcook wrote: post #8

I've been using the Bootstrap 4 beta for a couple weeks building a side project ( https://nanagram.co ) and I must say, it's been great to use. The built in utilities for responsive views and spacing are especially useful. Made optimizing the homepage for multiple screen sizes super fast and not painful at all. The Beta 1 had pretty good documentation and seemed pretty mature as well. Looking forward to upgrading to…

We just launched our re-design using the beta (https://www.drugbank.ca). We couldn't be happier as well.

Re: Bootstrap 4 Beta 2

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Post by ian0 »

andygcook wrote: post #8

I've been using the Bootstrap 4 beta for a couple weeks building a side project ( https://nanagram.co ) and I must say, it's been great to use. The built in utilities for responsive views and spacing are especially useful. Made optimizing the homepage for multiple screen sizes super fast and not painful at all. The Beta 1 had pretty good documentation and seemed pretty mature as well. Looking forward to upgrading to…

That is such a lovely service.

Re: Bootstrap 4 Beta 2

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Post by baby »

myf01d wrote: post #4

I know I am going to be downvoted so hard, but really it's very easy to build you own css these days, css frameworks look an easy solution for beginning your project but they become a burden gradually as your project grows

I agree with you, with css grids and flexbox I really don't use bootstrap much for new projects. The grid doesn't seem to make sense to me anymore.

BUT, bootstrap is still awesome for the design elements.

Re: Bootstrap 4 Beta 2

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Post by czep »

Is modular css changing bootstrap adoption? I'm a backend guy so I don't have much experience to develop a sense of large-scale front-end trends. I've used bootstrap since early v3 in various places and usually found it time-saving, easy to build responsively, and fairly easy to customize.

However, just as frameworks like angular and libraries like react are "componentizing" the front end and replacing general purpose utilities like jQuery, will we see a similar trend with modular css where component styles will replace the need for large css frameworks like bootstrap? Or is modular css merely a complement to whatever sitewide css framework you've chosen?

Re: Bootstrap 4 Beta 2

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Post by Mtinie »

brianwawok wrote: post #25
PunchTornado wrote: post #20

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I wonder why people don't get this. It's not like you're doing a Fortune 500 company's website with Bootstrap.

I bet we can find 50 uses of bootstrap in the f500.

At least. I’ve seen lots and lots of internal tools, product admin dashboards, and the occasional single-page product marketing sites, like the one the overworked intern, Todd, threw together in the 24 hours between the time the virtually-without-requirements demand was dropped on his tiny, cramped, mid-bullpen loaner desk and when he launched it into production to zero thanks.
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