Hacker News Reader

HNHacker News

Top New Best Ask Show Jobs

Comment by throwaway888abc | Hacker News Reader

Full thread

throwaway888abc·

Just to express Big Thank You to Bootstrap team and contributors for everything over years of hard work.

Productivity, stability, consistency and joy to work with!

Thank you

View on HN

Accessibility can't be stressed enough. I have worked with many big companies that want a small project/initiative for their users.

They always want these things, at minimum:

* Data security/compliance (GDPR, CCPA)

* Accessibility (WCAG 2.1)

As much as my team would love to just make every app in React or whatever. I always just say:

No. They want a CMS. Just make it with Django and Bootstrap. Then we'll be done with it in a couple weeks and you can all go back to your own stuff..

Django + Bootstrap gets us an incredible amount of accessibility just right now of the box. Invaluable for small development shops!

Do you use the Django apps for Bootstrap or include it on your own? How do you do the Django form <-> Bootstrap integration?

I'm not who you asked, but I've done it previously just calling the Bootstrap CDN within Django, and it was super simple. This was years ago, but I have this tutorial bookmarked from back then: https://tutorial.djangogirls.org/en/css/

Yep, manually calling the CDN is the simplest way, but I remembered that sometimes a lot of adjustments needed to be made to the forms and every form would need to be manually coded, or use one of the Django app to automate that.

Just keep in mind that Bootstrap ist not fully accessible by default on purpose [1]. I really hope this changes in v5, because accessibility shouldn't be opt-in.

[1] https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.1/getting-started/accessibil...

> Django + Bootstrap

Does the language of the CMS matter? Django is Python, but we are a .NET shop. Would Django still work for us or should we look into a CMS like Orchard or Umbraco?

Thank you! <3

Reply on news.ycombinator.com