Bootstrap Article

Introduction

Bootstrap is a open-source CSS framework directed at responsive, mobile-first front-end web development. It contains CSS and JS-based design templates for typography, forms, buttons, navigation and other interface components (such as pagination).

Bootstrap was first released in 2011 and was first developed by Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton. It was originally designed to be a Twitter framework to encourage consistency across internal tools.

Bootstrap is the third-most starred project on GitHub, with more than 131,000 stars. It is written in HTML, CSS, Less, Sass and JS.

Features

Design Templates - Bootstrap offers design templates based in HTML, CSS, Less, Sass, JS Extensions.

Responsive Utility Classes - Pieces of content can be made to appear or hide only on devices depending on the size of the screen.

Components - Drop-downs, Buttons, Navigation, Badge Alerts, Progress Bars.

Pros/Cons

Bootstrap has its pros and cons:

Pros	Cons
Easily Customisable and Lightweight - It can be possible to make a few changes to grids used in Boostrap. Offsetting and nesting of columns are also easy to do in both CPU-based and mobile-based browser grids.	You would have to go the extra mile while creating a design otherwise all the websites will look the same if you don't do heavy customization.
Responsive Utility Classes - Using these, a particular piece of content can be made to appear or hide only on devices depending on the size of the screen being used. This feature is extremely helpful for designers who want to make a mobile and tablet-friendly version of their websites.	JavaScript is tied to jQuery and is one of the commonest library which thus leaves most of the plugins unused.
Few Cross-Browser Bugs - The latest version of Bootstrap has less bugs and also has support for IE9+.	Styles are verbose and can lead to lots of output in HTML which is not needed. Also it has non-compliant HTML.
Good community Support - As mentioned earlier, Bootstrap has good community support on various websites. This is helpful for new developers to start with building their first Boostrap projects.	There wil be a requirement of lots of style overrides or rewriting files that can thus lead to a lot of time spent on designing and coding the website if the design tends to deviate from the customary design used in Bootstrap.

Extra Programs

Other Similar Frameworks - Foundation
Front End Web Techs - CSS, HTML, JS
Other Styling Technologies - PostCSS, Less, Sass
Other Front End Frameworks - ReactJS, VueJS, AngularJS

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Summary

In conclusion:

Bootstrap is a framework that HELPS speed up website designing A LOT. However, if you are an expert web designer you may not even need to use Boostrap. Also Boostrap can be imported via a CDN (Content Delivery Network) this can be useful for people who don't want to download Boostrap manually. To be a Boostrap wizard you must at least have some basic knowledge in web development (and design) and programming.