First of all let me say that “I love a lot Bootstrap” and in this article, I’m giving you the reason we can say benefits of using Bootstrap.
From last some years Bootstrap becomes the first choice as a front end framework. Bootstrap was introduced by twitter. Many Bootstrap lovers say “Bootstrap gave you feels like you’re building your own house without much of hassle”.
Let’s check the Benefits of Using Bootstrap
To get benefits of using bootstrap you need to download the bootstrap files from GitHub & include them in head section of your HTML document. You can take advantages of Bootstrap along with CSS / LESS / Sass [after you download the Sass version].
In these days the internet uses of mobile user is more than any other devices. Because of this it’s become most important to have your website device & browser friendly.
Gentle thanks to Bootstrap fluid grid layout which itself adjust the device screen resolution. Because of this rich feature there is no need to put extra effort to achieve this. Bootstrap has media classes to achieve responsiveness which work as per various devices sizes.
To learn more about media queries: Bootstrap Media Queries & Device Specific Styling
The most important benefits of using bootstrap is it speed up development. Instead of start coding from scrape, Bootstrap allow you to use ready-made coding blocks which help to build the foundation quickly. CSS-Less and cross-browser compatibility help developer to speed up development.
Some basic elements which are pre-styled with bootstrap are:
Typography, Code, Tables, Forms, Buttons, Images, Icons
Some pre-styles components are:
Dropdowns, Button Groups, Navigation Bar, Breadcrumbs, Labels & Badges, Alerts, Progress Bar. Etc
- Javascript plugins
Bootstrap offers 3 different downloads depending on you skill level.
Bootstrap: it’s a compiled minified CSS, JavaScript & fonts.
Source Code: Source Less, JavaScript and front files, along with docs. This requires a Less compiler and some setup.
Sass: Bootstrap ported from Less to Sass for easy inclusion in Rails, Compass, or Sass-only projects.
Bootstrap is a huge community you will get easy help whenever you are in need of. Bootstrap team keep bootstrap updated on GitHub. On Github it has 9,000 commits with more than 500 contributors.
Also, there are many repositories are available like I like a lot is bootsnip.com where you will get we created, modified & maintained web element.