Bootstrap

And I had already made Jumpstart, which was to make our screencasts easier to record.

I didn't wanna have to rails new and then install Devise and Bootstrap and add the JavaScript and then do all of that before we could even teach whatever the heck we were trying to teach in a video.

It was distracting, so I made Bootstrap that was just like, here's all the basics, and we can then focus on building a forum or, you know, whatever the feature was.

So anyways, those eventually, like, Hatchbox started to eat 60 hours a week of time because that is a very hard product to bootstrap and build yourself.

Servers and Linux and everything are very challenging, and it made no money.

And so it's up to you on how far you want to take this.

But it is nice to have a few different options if you're not using Bootstrap or Tailwind, but you still want this kind of modal or popover functionality.

And depending on how far you want to take it, you can even make it to where when you delete it, you also use a dialog for the delete confirmation.

But that's literally following the same principle of having a dialog for each one of the deletes.

And all these boring little pieces which stitch together a website or an app or something, they put them together and called it Twitter Blueprint.

Ah, yes, Twitter Blueprint, which later became Bootstrap.

So what started as an internal fix for messy buttons became a kind of default template for the entire web.

Exactly.

It...

First, it spreaded internally, and then in August 19th, 2011, Twitter released it to the public.

And exactly, they called it Bootstrap.

And now you imagine when you are building a website or thousands or millions of people building their website, you need navigation, you need buttons, you need everything, but you don't need to start from scratch any- anymore.

There was a question.

Bootstrap's still number one after, [laughs] you know, it's still there.

I mean, tell me-

Number one-

Yeah

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Bootstrap, then Tailwind close behind, and then Plains, Plains, Plain CSS just only two points back, right? So they're sort of split.

Bootstrap, Tailwind, or, you know, Vanilla basically, and then there was others, the long tail of other options.

Mm-mm.

It's like a couple years ago, started by people that were, I think half of them were at GitHub, half of them were from Bootstrap.

I'm gonna screw that up.

Anyway, they were prominent individuals with, um, big social networks, lots of influence, high quality, uh, output, building a GitHub competitor.

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Tailwind, for instance, like it has classes for everything you could possibly do on a website, but if you're not doing most of those things, uh, I used to say this about Bootstrap, I guess.

Like, you just get a lot of things that you don't need.

Uh-