42 engineers on Hacker News describe using Bootstrap first-hand: 20 endorse it, 1 regret it, 2 are mixed.
“it's well tested, very well documented, extensible and accessible, has accessibility concerns baked in”
endorse · production · cygned · 2021-04-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“forking Bootstrap 3 for an enterprise project and trying to keep it in sync with upstream. Never again would I consider doing that.”
regret · production · WorldMaker · 2019-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using bootstrap for any web side projects of mine mostly for its ability to flex and handle multiple devices sizes”
endorse · personal · spunker540 · 2018-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Bootstrap 4... I see no reason not to use the latest version.”
endorse · personal · nkkollaw · 2016-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm still using Bootstrap on my own small website for nearly this reason... The default options are just fine, and with minial effort look great on all the mobile devices”
endorse · personal · zeta0134 · 2016-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“its introduction and overview docs are highly accessible and appealing”
endorse · personal · danso · 2016-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm using it in prod for a site with roughly 200k request per minute. It has been great.”
endorse · production · 0.3 yr · bradly · 2016-04-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“But Bootstrap feels undeniably heavy, and perhaps I'll regret its use later. But for now it makes me faster”
mixed · production · bguthrie · 2013-07-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Bootstrap for this entire year on various projects at work.”
endorse · production · 1 yr · LeafStorm · 2012-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using https://github.com/thomas-mcdonald/bootstrap-sass as a SASS version of Bootstrap. It's a nice project”
endorse · personal · rcsorensen · 2012-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Twitter Bootstrap almost since day 1, and with a good PHP framework (like Kohana)”
endorse · personal · dougbarrett · 2012-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This is by far a much better solution because it handles responsive resizing, z-index and smaller devices a lot better.”
endorse · personal · latchkey · 2012-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It saved me a lot of time. It helped me create a "pattern" when creating documents and, at the end, you can just remove it”
mixed · personal · eduardordm · 2012-10-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“staying on the shoulders of giants like node.js, twitter bootstrap speed things up allot.”
endorse · production · zubairov · 2012-06-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'll continue using bootstrap in prod.”
endorse · production · timecircuits · 2012-02-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Bootstrap gives us a common UI for the web that is both beautiful and usable.”
endorse · production · radagaisus · 2011-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using twitters bootstrap on everything I write since I came across it.”
endorse · personal · killnine · 2011-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've been using Twitter's Bootstrap in quite a lot of our recent web app projects. It provides a reasonable "standard widget set"”
endorse · production · bergie · 2011-11-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I used Bootstrap to apply a new UI to a relatively simple internal webapp we use. It was ridiculously easy”
endorse · production · ssharp · 2011-11-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using BootStrap in my Clients' web apps for a few months now and been very pleased with the results.”
endorse · production · grantjgordon · 2011-11-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I started using bootstrap for my a homework assignment and my only regret is that why didn't I adopt it before!”
endorse · personal · tathagatadg · 2011-11-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Bootstrap has already taken care of all of that, and it looks great.”
endorse · personal · andrewthornton · 2011-10-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I launched a site in production using a slightly modified bootstrap... bootstrap looks amazing and the design of the site got a ton of complements from non-technical folk.”
endorse · production · imothee · 2011-09-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Tailwind (which I have more direct experience with in professional settings)”
neutral · production · chaosharmonic · 2024-09-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Our application has been on an old version of Bootstrap.”
neutral · production · jweir · 2024-06-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“generates print-to-PDF-ready quotations styled with Bootstrap5”
neutral · production · yosoyhxr · 2023-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have several projects running in prod, at several companies, for over a decade.”
neutral · production · 10 yr · withinboredom · 2023-11-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use boostrap for a lot of prototyping, I usually pair it with bootstrap studio”
neutral · personal · speedylight · 2022-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We started with a basic Bootstrap template and then heavily customized it (hand-coded).”
neutral · production · SneezyRobot · 2019-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Golang, Postgres, Bootstrap + whatever JS I can hack into it abusing the hell out of template/html.”
neutral · production · SuperPaintMan · 2017-01-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using the version 1, 2 and 3 and I've never felt like I needed to learn it.”
neutral · personal · ggregoire · 2016-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“UI: nothing fancy. bootstrap and, if the use case absolutely requires it, jquery.”
neutral · production · ojiikun · 2016-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“you are forced to find a way for it to work when you want to use bootstrap with the JavaScript additions”
neutral · production · cygned · 2016-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“both jQueryUI and Bootstrap components in play”
neutral · production · tracker1 · 2015-08-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“beyond them just being Bootstrap components”
neutral · production · izyda · 2015-07-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use a framework, LESS (for bootstrap UI) and we support web standards.”
neutral · production · awkward · 2015-07-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I used to use BootStrap, but now I've been using Semantic-UI.”
neutral · production · what-no-tests · 2015-07-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using bootstrap for a while now too and lately I've been trying out new libraries just to see if anything is better yet.”
neutral · personal · rickr · 2015-06-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Each of those elements inputs "our own" XML syntax ... and outputs Twitter Bootstrap HTML.”
neutral · production · donum · 2014-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We used to write CSS from scratch, now we use Bootstrap.”
neutral · production · pedalpete · 2013-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm currently building using Django/jQuery/Bootstrap. My last project was GAE.”
neutral · production · Ensorceled · 2012-10-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we migrated an older app from a Theme Forest layout to Twitter Bootstrap.”
neutral · production · aculver · 2012-03-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?