The Bootstrap HTML Framework

Landing on the official website for the Bootstrap Framework & quoted from the front page.

"Quickly design and customize responsive mobile-first sites with Bootstrap, the world's most popular front-end open-source toolkit, featuring Sass variables and mixins, responsive grid system, extensive prebuilt components, and powerful JavaScript plugins." - https://getbootstrap.com/

However, when an average person reads the above quote, they might not understand it. In plain English, you could understand this as saying that the Bootstrap 5 framework is ideally suited for mobile website applications. It is also pretty lightweight when a basic structure gets used, making web pages load faster. So let the facts speak for themselves.

Bootstrap History

"Bootstrap was created at Twitter in mid-2010 by @mdo and @fat. It had a major facelift in 2020. - write about this. Prior to being an open-sourced framework, Bootstrap was known as Twitter Blueprint. A few months into development, Twitter held its first Hack Week and the project exploded as developers of all skill levels jumped in without any external guidance." - https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/about/history/

Boostrap Statistics

Millions of developers & 40,000+ companies use the Bootstrap framework. Spotify uses Bootstrap on their homepage.

Bootstrap is used by about 28.0% of all the websites whose JavaScript library we know and that rank in the top 1,000,000.

According to https://webtechsurvey.com/technology/bootstrap these websites use the bootstrap framework:

• www.paypal.com
• dan.com
• www.jsdelivr.com
• support.microsoft.com
• www.stackpath.com

At the time of writing this blog article, there were more than 10 Million websites using the bootstrap framework.

So if you would like a super-fast website, Bootstrap 5 is a great way to go.

At wevolution, we also use the Bootstrap 5 framework for static websites that do not require a database.

A blog by Stefan de Beer