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The most popular HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.

252 mentions on Hacker News by 226 people: 46 stories, 206 comments · first 2011-08-19 · latest 2025-10-25

Mentions per year 252 mentions · busiest year 2012 (59)
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  1. > BS3 is still officially supported Are you sure? https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/20631 > Stop all work on v3—today. The open issues, split dev setup, and more holds us back from focusing entirely on v4. I'll close all remaining…
  2. …alone [1] right now if you want to right now: @import "path/to/bootstrap/scss/bootstrap-grid" [1] https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/v4-dev/scss/bootstrap... https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/v4-dev/scss/bootstrap...
  3. https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/20631 Essentially they've stopped working on v3. I don't think they used the words "no longer supported", but that's kind of what has happened.
  4. Your link is broken. I think you meant this: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/21581
    comment by montecarl · 2017-01-06 · in Bootstrap 4 Alpha 6 Released
  5. I hear you two. I'll look into it for the beta. Opened an issue at https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/21581 — feel free to chime in with any specific examples or requests.
    comment by mdo · 2017-01-06 · in Bootstrap 4 Alpha 6 Released
  6. It was closed because of all the "me too" comments. The PR is here: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/21389
  7. "Drop IE9 support for v4 beta?" "fuck it, why not" https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/21387 This isn't how you should drop support, it might be a good choice but can we at least have some discussion, maybe even an RFC, not just…
  8. …SemanticUI [2]: 537 KB Don't forget to add the JavaScript. I know GZip is a thing, but still... [1] https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/master/dist/css/boots... [2] https://github.com/Semantic-Org/Semantic-UI-CSS/blob/master/...
  9. …Thanks for your understanding, and see you on the other side of v4! <3, @mdo and team [1] https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/20631 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12435425 [3] https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/16913
    comment by niftich · 2016-09-06 · in Bootstrap 4 Alpha 4 Released
  10. It's the term @mdo used in other issues like https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/16913 "Bootstrap 3 is no longer being officially developed or supported."
    comment by sorich87 · 2016-09-06 · in Getting to Bootstrap v4
  11. …might take longer to roll out if they're supporting the previous version at the same time. 0: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/20631
    comment by soupshield · 2016-09-06 · in Bootstrap 4 Alpha 4 Released
  12. …versions before? Feels like the main contributors are losing interesting/available time? (releases: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/releases )
    comment by fideloper · 2016-09-05 · in Bootstrap 4 Alpha 4 Released
  13. I'm surprised no one has mentioned https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap Maybe because it's getting a bad wrap these days with people doing dumb, repetitive things with it. But I've always found the code quality to be very good.
  14. …repeated over and over again for the same libraries. And it could even be extended to CSS: @import package("github.com/twbs/bootstrap/tree/3.3.6");
    comment by tomphoolery · 2016-04-07 · in React v15.0
  15. Apparently the current status is to do this in a minor update just after 4.0 ships: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/19555#issuecomment-...
    comment by ZeroGravitas · 2016-03-30 · in State of Bootstrap 4 vs. Foundation
  16. https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/tree/v4-dev/dist There is a CSS and JS compiled version of the files there.
    comment by dherran · 2016-03-29 · in State of Bootstrap 4 vs. Foundation
  17. I think this [1] is the related thread. 1. https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/13564
    comment by etimberg · 2016-03-29 · in State of Bootstrap 4 vs. Foundation
  18. …updatedeps: $(TMPDIR) bootstrap fontawesome jquery bootstrap: curl -L -o $(TMPDIR)/bs.zip https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/releases/download/v$(VER_BOOTSTRAP)/bootstrap-$(VER_BOOTSTRAP)-dist.zip unzip -j $(TMPDIR)/bs.zip…
  19. https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/3057
    comment by factorfractal · 2015-12-05 · in GitHub-drama
  20. …I can see following a quick cursory glance at the commit history page for quite a large project ( https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/commits/master ) it's somewhat difficult to jump to the last page (earliest in terms of when hey were made)…
  21. Take a look at Bootstrap Alpha 4: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/tree/v4-dev/scss I don't know if reading the source code is enough, but if you try incorporating it in projects, it's easier to see how well SCSS works in practice. I…
    comment by danso · 2015-10-15 · in How to Pick a Front End Web Framework
  22. https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/tree/master/less
    comment by ceejayoz · 2015-10-15 · in How to Pick a Front End Web Framework
  23. …features and see what was what with it. Decided to make some demos to compare some stuff too. [1] https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/17021
    comment by scotchio · 2015-08-25 · in What’s New in Bootstrap 4
  24. probably not the most useful place to point this out. https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues
    comment by betenoire · 2015-08-19 · in Bootstrap 4 alpha
  25. Mentioned on github before https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/9366#issuecomment-2... Personally I hope they never impose such an awkward naming convention.
    comment by gpmcadam · 2015-08-19 · in Bootstrap 4 alpha
  26. PR to bootstrap project done: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/16901
  27. …a left margin because the scrollbar width is different in every OS. This is what bootstrap does: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/83bfff7f0765503b990b9...
    comment by moretti · 2015-07-29 · in Modals in React
  28. …time back in HS) but I'd bet you 90% of the code contributions are with the top 5 committers. [1] https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/2054
    comment by anon3_ · 2015-07-25 · in The Battle for Wesnoth needs help
  29. …days and Bootstrap uses pixels, too. Here is a discussion about the topic in their issue tracker: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/1943 Ultimately their solution is to drop IE8 support and use rem, which is relative to the body…
  30. …HTML around and your stylesheets aren't in sync. Of course, prefixing isn't for everyone -- e.g. https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/1235 -- some argue you should know all the styles on your page and how they interact, even if using a…
    comment by lstamour · 2015-07-10 · in Show HN: CSS Quality Guide
  31. …I did to practice: Pick a CSS framework and look through the source. Bootstrap is a great one ( https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/master/dist/css/boots... ). You can read through their documentation and find the styles in the source…
    comment by marcusmolchany · 2015-06-01 · in Ask HN: How do I get better at CSS?
  32. I believe this is what you're talking about https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/3057
    comment by slig · 2015-03-05 · in The infernal semicolon (2012)
  33. …community: using technical arcana in production code as if it was a good thing. Just one example: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/3057
    comment by billyhoffman · 2015-02-17 · in You Don't Know JavaScript Book Series
  34. …isolated, and well thought out. But don't take my word for it! The "affix" plugin in bootstrap: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/master/js/affix.js The equivalent in foundation: https://github.com/zurb/foundation/blob/master/js/founda…
    comment by lynndylanhurley · 2014-10-30 · in Bootstrap 3.3.0 and Bootstrap 4
  35. Most likely there will be two tiers for phones: landscape (480-768px) and portrait (0-480px). https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/10203
    comment by rpedela · 2014-10-29 · in Bootstrap 3.3.0 and Bootstrap 4
  36. Thanks, it's based on GitHub releases (Git tags -- ex. https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/releases ). So anytime a new release is published it will send you an email with any details that they included with the release.
  37. …are priceless to me, and certainly motivate me much more than the bad parts demotivate me. [0] https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/3057#issuecomment-5...
  38. …tps://squizlabs.github.io/HTML_CodeSniffer/ [1] http://www.visionaustralia.org/digital-access-cca [2] https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/3572
  39. …import the components using LESS or SCSS [1]. [0] http://getbootstrap.com/customize/ [1] https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/master/less/bootstrap...
  40. https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/master/less/mixins/ve... They are indeed! ;-)
  41. …is a bootstrap-based site, using standard breakpoints. [1] http://getbootstrap.com/customize/ [2] https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/ [3] https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap-sass/
    comment by grrowl · 2014-07-16 · in Why the Bootstrap 3 Grid Works (2013)
  42. …might find it not working properly with things like the input or button groups, for example. [1]: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/master/less/ [2]: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/master/less/grid.less
    comment by madeofpalk · 2014-07-06 · in Decouple Bootstrap from your html
  43. …when developing for Rails simply followed that with `grunt` when they moved to JavaScript. [0]: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/commit/0d33455ef486d0cf06c...
    comment by jeffbr13 · 2014-03-25 · in The Ultimate Frontend Build tool: make
  44. …sorts of additional customizations [3] to it, BS just provides a nice initial setup for that. [0]: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap [1]: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/master/Gruntfile.js [2]:…
    comment by SkyMarshal · 2014-01-30 · in Bootstrap 3.1 released
  45. …http://blog.getbootstrap.com/2013/08/19/bootstrap-3-released... Code at top of scaffolding.less: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/master/less/scaffoldi...
    comment by cmicali · 2014-01-30 · in Bootstrap 3.1 released
  46. …stylesheets[1]? I usually import only around half of the bootstrap-sass stylesheets[2]. [1] https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/tree/master/less [2] https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap-sass/tree/master/vendor/as...
    comment by subsection1h · 2014-01-22 · in CSS 'frameworks' are missing the point (2008)
  47. …semi-colon free. I really don't like the style personally, but I'm not about to start a flame war. https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/master/js/dropdown.js
    comment by jonknee · 2014-01-15 · in The Next Phase of Node.js
  48. …I haven't read a pull request discussion like that since the semicolon battle in Bootstrap ( https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/3057 ). At least the semi-colon pull request actually fixed something.
    comment by jonknee · 2014-01-15 · in The Next Phase of Node.js
  49. Ho boy not this again... https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/3057
    comment by prezjordan · 2013-12-28 · in My Favorite jQuery Plugin Template
  50. …with the huge package repository [2] - separate test and prod builds, htmlminification, etc. [1]: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap [2]: http://gruntjs.com/plugins