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A handful of Bootstrap 4 themes with an interactive code picker

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#bootstrap 4#bootstrap themes#css themes#code picker

53points
18comments
#767of 2,242 in 2017
Top 35%of 2017 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

3 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 1 critical, out of 6 comments about the project. Thread score +0.33.

Idea: 2 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Good idea, makes reskinning Bootstrap easier

    From 2 comments
    • This is a great idea - lots of sites can make great use of Bootstrap and having ways to reskin it easily greatly increases the available looks and feels. Something I'd personally…
      davidscolgan on HN
    • What interactive code picker did you use? I don't see you talking about it anywhere. Useful site though.
      victor106 on HN
  • Neon glow theme liked

    From 2 comments
    • I like the Neon glow theme but overall all are good, nice work!
      uniacid on HN
    • I can't wait to try out the Neon glow hacker theme! Thank you for open sourcing! Sincerely, backend dev who still sucks at frontend
      Winterflow3r on HN

Objections

  • Picker icon and behaviour are confusing

    From 2 comments
    • This looks great. Two things that got me though... The "picker" tool does not do what I thought it would. And for the modifier classes I'd rather see the word than the color if I…
      throwaway2016a on HN
    • Given the icon I expected it to do something with color. I don't know what given the context but the only time I have ever seen that icon is for color picking and usually not in…
      throwaway2016a on HN
  • Prefers class names shown over color squares for modifiers

    From 1 comment
    • This looks great. Two things that got me though... The "picker" tool does not do what I thought it would. And for the modifier classes I'd rather see the word than the color if I…
      throwaway2016a on HN

Requests

  • In-depth guide to reskinning Bootstrap

    From 1 comment
    • This is a great idea - lots of sites can make great use of Bootstrap and having ways to reskin it easily greatly increases the available looks and feels. Something I'd personally…
      davidscolgan on HN
  • Remove jQuery dependency

    From 1 comment
    • I am tired of including jquery just because I use bootstrap when I have no use of jquery at all. Is there something that can be done about this ?
      agnivade on HN

Questions

  • Is Bootstrap 4 ready for use?

    From 1 comment
  • What new features does Bootstrap 4 have and how hard is migration from 3?

    From 1 comment
    • What are those really good new features? How hard was it for you to transition from 3 to 4? P.S. I'm really comfortable with B3 just not sure if I'm willing to invest the time…
      superasn on HN

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