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Chapter: Bootstrap and frontend CSS frameworks
Lecture: CSS Front-end framework survey
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Now before we start working with Bootstrap
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let's do a quick survey of what's out there.
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So Bootstrap probably is
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the most popular front-end framework
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for a CSS framework, that's out there.
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And that has a lot of benefits.
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It means one, there's a lot of tutorials and demos
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but also there's a lot of themes
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and other sort of add-ons and extensions.
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So popularity does matter, especially if you want
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to get into the theme side of things.
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But it's not the only thing, right?
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Maybe there's another one you like better.
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Like I said in the opening for this chapter
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we're going to use Bootstrap.
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It's pretty popular, you see, at 125,000 GitHub stars.
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There's a nice URL you can go to, expo.getbootstrap.com
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and there's a bunch of sites built with Bootstrap
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that you can click around and get some inspiration from.
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And it's always view source.
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You can even borrow it to build your own site.
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Another one that's really popular is Symantec.
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So, Symantec UI is a nice framework
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for building clean web apps, and this one has 41,000 stars
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definitely consider that.
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Foundation, Zurb Foundation it's really, really popular.
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This one is a little more popular among
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what I would call, the professional designers
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the people who really do design for a living.
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It does a little less hand-holding.
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It's more of a foundation upon which
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you can build your design.
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Hence, I guess the name Foundation.
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So, if that describes you a little better
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it may be considered checking out Foundation.
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There's Materialize.
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Here's an example of an app built with Materialze.
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Nice and clean, looks really great.
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And there's a whole bunch more.
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Actually, a really great article is this one here
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at KeyCDN, Top 10 Front-End Frameworks of 2016.
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Yeah, it's a 2016, but many of them are still relevant.
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And it's nice, 'cause it actually gives you a little bit
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of the trade-offs, like, "Bootstrap is good like this."
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"But it's not as good as that."
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"This other one, Materialize has this advantage so consider it."
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So if you're actually shopping
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for what front-end framework to use, give that a quick look.
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If you don't know, Bootstrap, that's probably the way to go.
