Bootstrap

The most popular and easy to use set of css and javascript to make your apps look professional.

Intro to Bootstrap

  • If you haven’t yet, clone Cosi166b Public Samples repo and cd to public_samples/htmletc/bootstrap_demo
  • Bootstrap is an open source front-end framework
  • History: It came from Twitter, and used to be called “Twitter Bootstrap” but now it is its own open source project, and is called just “Bootstrap”
  • It consists solely of css, javascript, some images, and some fonts
  • You should use release 5 even though it’s barely out of beta
  • There are various Gems to use Bootstrap with Rails
  • However use with care, sometimes they create more problems than they solve.
  • Checkout Bootsnipp.com for lots of ideas for bootstrap