Bootstrap: Revolutionary Web Design and Development

Bootstrap framework was launched by the popular social media network, Twitter. After declaring it an open source, it has brought a revolution in the web design and development industry with its advanced features. It is prevailed as a mobile friendly front end development framework. It collectively offers the CSS, HTML and JavaScript to create out of the box websites and web applications. As per a survey result, the bootstrap has been used to develop almost 3.5 million websites, and web applications from the inception to till date. This number is growing massively. With the passing years, the framework has also become more scalable and powerful.

It is noteworthy that it is registered as the number one project on the GitHub by June 2014. On Github, there are more than 20,800 committees and 433 contributors who develop and maintain this framework. They all are working towards the vision of making it the most scalable and suited frond end development framework. The community is working actively and as soon as any developer face an issue the community makes sure to resolve it at soonest. The bootstrap is also dynamically growing in terms of improving its framework and has added millions of templates, which has opened the doors of success for the bootstrap.

As in the recent years, the responsive web has been the vital part of any business. The mobile friendly nature of the twitter bootstrap technology has made it one of the most ideal front end development frameworks. It design and develop responsive websites with a sleek appearance and user specific features. It uses the single code for different types of devices, which eliminates the need of exclusive queries for different devices. This reduces the development hours tremendously. This reduces the development cost remarkably. This is one of the reasons why more and more companies are demanding to use the twitter bootstrap to develop their web interface.

It has been widely accepted and appreciated framework among the designers and developers due to its next generation nature. It supports plenty of queries in a single file to assure that the website or web application is most appropriate on any device or screen resolution. It is compatible with major web browsers, including, Firefox, Chrome, IE (Internet Explorer), Opera, and Safari. It has an extensive library with ready to use themes, buttons, forms, etc. which reduces the development efforts at a major extent. The bootstrap furnishes the developer with hands on tools so that the developer doesn't need to start development from scratch. The bootstrap has the 12 column grid utilization capability. This upholds the nested elements and offsets. The developer can either maintain the grid in a responsive manner or can securely modify the grid based on the requirement of the current project. Apart from this built-in functionalities, to speed up the task, the developer may also take advantage of the plethora of already available templates.

In a nutshell, it has been noted that the twitter bootstrap has contributed not only in the responsive web industry, but also the popularity of the open source CMS. It has benefited the developers with its built-in templates, themes, modules, extensions. At the same time, it has benefited the webmasters with the more search engine and user-friendly websites and web applications cost-effectively. It has also leveraged the end users by the tidy and secure web experience. Without a doubt from each perspective, the twitter bootstrap has been revolutionary front end development framework.