I'm developing a ASP .NET web project that uses: jQuery, jQuery UI, reset/normalize css stylesheets. Most of the CSS is crap, so I'm going to rewrite it + I will have a budget to it :)
I came across two fancy solutions that I would like to learn:
SASS
Bootstrap
I wonder, how to "mix" my existing application with these solution. When it comes to SASS, it seems to me pretty obvious - just rewrite CSS and be proud of new clean meta CSS, however I'm not sure about Bootstrap. What are the advantages of it if I don't want to change the layout of my site?
Another thing: can I run into possible issues when including Bootstrap / SASS into my site?
Twitter Bootstrap (TBS) is a CSS framework and its original purpose was for website and web app prototypes. So if you want to start from scratch with very thorough and well styled CSS, then bootstrap is great.
Twitter Bootstrap is NOT necessarily the right solution if you want to keep the majority of your existing UI, especially if your existing UI doesn't match up well with their scaffolding, grid system, and other elements of their UI styles (forms inputs, buttons, typography etc). You'll find yourself having to override a lot the framework's properties, which kind of defeats the purpose.
As #Nathron mentioned, if you try to mix TBS with your existing code, you could run into conflicts. Creating a customized build of TBS that includes only the elements of their framework that you want would be the best approach there: http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/customize.html.
Regarding SASS, if you want to use it in combination with TBS, check out https://github.com/jlong/sass-twitter-bootstrap.
From their site: The Boostrap JS is for "interactive components for things like tooltips, popovers, modals, and more". So if you are using any of those, make sure you don't have conflicting JS functions.
You could run into issues with the CSS if your class names are the same as the ones that Bootstrap uses. Many of them are a little obscure like "darkwell", but some of them are common like "dropdown", so you just have to keep an eye out for that.
Easiest way to see is to download it and play around with it :)
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I'm building a web application using ReactJS.
I would like to know if it's a good idea to combine React and Bootstrap or if it's completely useless? Are there things I can do with one and I can't do with the others?
I know that Bootstrap is a Framework and React is a library but I'd like to know what's the difference between the two, since I read some articles explaining the difference between a library and a framework and couldn't really understand!
I would recommend going through this tutorial:
https://ourcodeworld.com/articles/read/561/how-to-use-components-of-bootstrap-4-in-reactjs
Basically, they aren't meant for the same purpose: you can write the business logic (~how your app will work) in ReactJS and then you can show it to the end user with some custom CSS class magic written in Bootstrap 4.
Hope that helps!
The difference between a library and a framework is explained really well in the following Stackoverflow post: What is the difference between a framework and a library?
If you want to use Bootstrap 4 in ReactJS you can use the following super easy and nice to use library: Reactstrap.
I hope this helps you.
Bootstrap is a CSS framework, It is used to make responsive and beautiful websites.
React js is a view library and makes it painless to create interactive UIs. Design simple views for each state in your application, and React will efficiently update and render just the right components when your data changes.
You can use them together if you want to build interactive and beautiful
websites.
To include bootstrap in React,
First refer this, Bootstrap webpack
This is one way of using bootstrap in reactjs projects.
The advantage of this is that you get access to latest bootstrap css.
The disadvantage of using this is its complicated to use jquery plugins in reactjs. However if you are only interested in css, then it's perfect.
Using this you can directly use bootstrap classes from documentation and get more control.
Just use className instead of class
If you want simple setup, then you can use reactstrap link
Other frameworks include react-bootstrap link
This does not mean, that you have to use bootstrap only. You can use any other css framework like Bulma, Foundation etc.
Is it worth it using jQuery with React ?
My opinion is not to use jQuery with React, as jQuery or jQuery plugins changes DOM structure, This in turn causes problems with reactjs virtual DOM.
This does not mean you cannot use jQuery, you can, but its little different than normal use.
Reactjs has provided a way to use jQuery and other plugin here Integrating with Other Libraries
I'm confused with some css templates in bootstrap.
I've been a developer for years already but I never worked in a company that let me create an entire website as front-end developer say for example an e-commerce site.
So if someone would say "do an e-commerce site", do I have to ask them for a ready made css template? If so, then is it possible there are already other sites that bought it, other than me, e.g. we may have the same web face?
I am not really an expert in css nor an artist. I have created a website for personal use but it was pure bootstrap. I can see other templates in bootstrap; they have other components manipulated, like a different menu which is not present in their list of components.
How did they do that? Is it another individual css, js, html component? Do I have to create my own component sometimes?
For you to understand me, I can create relatively easily any site written in either React or Angular but I cannot create my own css design.
The examples and templates that you see in Bootstrap uses the Bootstrap framework, but the CSS and JS design components are changed to better define what the user wants it to be like.
For example
form-group-lg select.form-control{height:46px;line-height:46px}
This is the pre-defined CSS value from Bootstrap CDN, changing this CSS value to something else, changes your design, but you still are based on Boostrap. Basically, Bootstrap is not only about design, it's following a library, a framework, a skeleton to make your web development (specially frontend) easier.
I have something on my mind for quite a while but couldn't find an answer to it. Consider the following:
You like to build a fancy website with React and have to decide which front-end framework you should use. In my example I have chosen Material-UI.
Now you came to a point where you need more features like a responsive grid system, show/hide styles etc. Instead of implementing them on your own (or copying it from bootstrap/foundation, for example) you think: 'Hey, why wouldn't I include another framework beside Material-UI'.
Now comes the question. I know that most of the css frameworks available have their own normalisation css and basic styles for typography and other elements.
Can I safely include another (more featured) css framework beside Material-UI without breaking fundamental things or should I avoid that?
Furthermore, what is a good practice approach to extend the css features without copying parts from other frameworks and without reinventing the wheel all the time. Did you ever had a case or project where you had to combine multiple front-end frameworks and how did you solve this problem?
Thanks for your feedback.
Cheers
Gregor
FYI, there's a Material Design version of Foundation, you can check it out at http://eucalyptuss.github.io/material-foundation/
Now, talking about your doubts... one should be very careful when mixing and/or using more than one framework at the same time... one issue can be conflict, other can be unnecessary bloating which could make load time heavier.
However, if you are aware of that, most of modern frameworks (as Foundation) can be compiled partially, so you will be loading only the stuff you'll use, minimizing all possible issues.
Have been thinking this exactly thing lately.. I would choose one that has most of the features i need in my project. I usually go just with Bootstrap (sass version) and use only the styling part of that (css grids mostly).
Mixing frameworks will eventually be hard to maintain and you have to include lot of extra (unused) features into your application. When using some "cool", full featured components like Material-UI has, there will still be times when some component doesn't have just the property you would need.
So my opinion is:
Use some framework for styling only. This way you have uniform look in your site. Or even just some responsive grid library could be enough.
Usually basic html components are enough to fill basic needs, you can just build your own custom components for special needs (or use some from npm library). This way you have just the features you need.
This way my site is not depending just some single framework. I can change the styling part anytime, i can change one component to another etc. without having to re-write my whole application just because it's been developed entirely with some "full featured" framework.
I'm trying to reach the best css practice on my website using my own custom css till I found out I can use css framework such as bootstrap or foundation zurb instead. I thought using such framework directly without the need of making my own custom css is possible, but it turns out that all css frameworks are limited to some point yet I need to add extra custom css so my site look the way I want.
I want to use css framework because of the fact that it is being served over CDN so no extra bandwidth, and also for load speed and performance.
now my question, is it possible to be using only css framework on a website without the need of adding a custom css?
also how about creating my own custom css and using #import to a css framework inside the custom file, is that a good practice?
can anyone enlighten me to an efficient method serving a css file with/without css framework to my website?
You can use a plain framework without writing any custom CSS if you either a) Are happy with how it looks without custom CSS or b) like one of the many themes you can get for such frameworks.
You can #import a framework into your own custom CSS - in fact, many frameworks are available as less and importing them allows you to use variables from the framework in your own CSS as well.
As far as efficiency goes, are you sure this is the performance problem you have? If you haven't measured the performance, you aren't ready to optimise! It will, of course, be a straight economic trade-off between looking exactly as you want, and keeping the page load fast.
using a css framework is always a good option. You can use either bootstrap/foundation. along with the various functionalities on the site it would provide u the animation effects as well. And would help to complete the site faster as they provide the snippets of code. You can use less/sass and have the styling customized in the variables so you wont have to include extra custom css file.
I have implemented a Rails project which has a lot of forms, but they do not look good. The new, edit, and destroy buttons are very close to each other. Listing the items in each form is also ugly as the columns are very close; they definitely need CSS and styling. Is there any sample or template that I can use?
For general styling you can use Bootstrap, there is even a gem to make it easier to integrate.
For better layouts and automating the form building process such as new, edit actions, you can use Formtastic.
Another one that's as popular is simple_form.
You can find even more form builders at the ruby toolbox site.
As you have mentioned little about your application, its hard to tell what styling you should chose. However as #olive_tree mentioned, bootstrap is simpler and a convenient option. You may want to check this rails cast
http://railscasts.com/episodes/328-twitter-bootstrap-basics?view=asciicast
Bootstrap is definitely a good place to start. Personally I prefer ZURB Foundation, though, but that is mostly a matter of preference. Here is a link on how to integrate Foundation the easiest way:
http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/applications.html