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Do you use Bootstrap?

If yes, what version?

If not, why not? Which alternative do you use?

I build very simple websites, I'm using a tiny bootstrap subset that's sufficient for what I do. My css files average around 400-1100 bytes of unminified css.

Custom Bootstrap builds then?

cannot speak for GP, but often when I did use bootstrap, I'd have sass configured in webpack, and bring in the bits I wanted (prefixing my overrides). Usually copy/paste the variable.scss directly into my project, as well as the full list of modules, commenting out the ones I wasn't using.

I got a WordPress site that has a theme on Bootstrap 3:

https://themeforest.net/item/kleo-pro-community-focused-mult...

Looking around the theme marketplace, it looks like most WordPress themes are still on Bootstrap 3 too. They haven't even upgraded to 3.4 which contains security fixes.

Using it, 4.1.1 through bootstrap-vue in my nuxt app.

Alternatively using Material through vuetify in other projects too.

I use bootstrap, sometimes v3 sometimes v4 depending on the project. I don't use any of the layout aids, but I enjoy its default styling of HTML elements. Which is also why this PR doesn't concern me because I don't use the JS parts of Bootstrap.

I still use v4 for new builds. I have used Spectre[0] in the past and it seems pretty good.

[0] https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/

Yes, bootstrap 4 with reactstrap for a website / app sharing the same CSS.

UIkit (https://getuikit.com/). It's also vanilla JS and has many more useful components that Bootstrap.

Used to use it a lot (v1-v4 even) ... lately mostly material-ui with React.

If I need something quick/dirty, I'll pull in jquery and bootstrap via cdnjs and roll with it.

I use vuetify, beacause I like the material design better than bootstrap and it feels more modern.

I like Bootstrap but I tend to use Milligram for most stuff these days. It's an excellent starting point and easy to extend.

https://milligram.io

I guess the main difference being that Bootstrap is actively maintained while Milligram hasn't been updated in 2 years.

Looking at the GitHub page[0], the last commit was 2 weeks ago, not 2 years ago.

[0] https://github.com/milligram/milligram

I agree not much happens development-wise, but the project is so small and simple it doesn't need it.

All of the modules are tiny and easy (even for me) to understand.

I was looking at the milligram site and it looked oddly familiar. Seems http://getskeleton.com/ uses the same layout for their main page demoing the framework.

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