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bootstrap

The most popular HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.

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What it is

The most popular HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.

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HN mentions by year252 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2011-08-19 21:13:02 UTC to 2025-10-25 07:22:00 UTC.

02040602011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 11 mentions; 3 submissions, 8 comments20112012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 59 mentions; 10 submissions, 49 comments2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 56 mentions; 5 submissions, 51 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 18 mentions; 3 submissions, 15 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 16 mentions; 1 submissions, 15 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 25 mentions; 12 submissions, 13 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 25 mentions; 6 submissions, 19 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 2 submissions, 7 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 2 submissions, 7 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 comments2025

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20112011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1138
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC591049
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC56551
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC18315
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC16115
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC251213
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC25619
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC615
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC927
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC927
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC615

From the project README

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Bootstrap Sleek, intuitive, and powerful front-end framework for faster and easier web development. Explore Bootstrap docs » Report bug · Request feature · Blog Bootstrap 6 Our default branch is for development of our Bootstrap 6 release. Head to the v5-dev branch to view the readme, documentation, and source code for Bootstrap 5. Table of contents Quick start Status What’s included Bugs and feature requests Documentation Contributing Community Versioning Creators Thanks Copyright and license Quick start Several quick start options are available: Download the latest release Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap.git Install with npm: npm install bootstrap@6.0.0-alpha.1 Install with yarn: yarn add bootstrap@6.0.0-alpha.1 Install with Bun: bun add bootstrap@6.0.0-alpha.1 Install with Composer: composer require twbs/bootstrap:6.0.0-alpha.1 Install with NuGet: CSS: Install-Package bootstrap Sass: Install-Package bootstrap.sass Read the Getting started page for information on the framework contents, templates, examples, and more. Status What’s included Within the download you’ll find the following directories and files, logically grouping common assets and providing both compiled and minified variations. Download contents bootstrap/ ├── css/ │ ├── bootstrap-grid.css │ ├── bootstrap-grid.css.map │ ├── bootstrap-grid.min.css │ ├── bootstrap-grid.min.css.map │ ├── bootstrap-reboot.css │ ├── bootstrap-reboot.css.map │ ├── bootstrap-reboot.min.css │ ├── bootstrap-reboot.min.css.map │ ├── bootstrap-utilities.css │ ├── bootstrap-utilities.css.map │ ├── bootstrap-utilities.min.css │ ├── bootstrap-utilities.min.css.map │ ├── bootstrap.css │ ├── bootstrap.css.map │ ├── bootstrap.min.css │ └── bootstrap.min.css.map └── js/ ├── bootstrap.bundle.js ├── bootstrap.bundle.js.map ├── bootstrap.bundle.min.js ├── bootstrap.bundle.min.js.map ├── bootstrap.js ├── bootstrap.js.map ├── bootstrap.min.js └── bootstrap.min.js.map We provide compiled CSS and JS (bootstrap.*), as well as compiled and minified CSS and JS (bootstrap.min.*). Source maps (bootstrap.*.map) are available for use with certain browsers' developer tools. Bundled JS files (bootstrap.bundle.js and minified bootstrap.bundle.min.js) include Floating UI and Vanilla Calendar Pro. All CSS files work for both LTR and RTL layouts thanks to logical properties—simply set dir="rtl" on your HTML element. Bugs and feature requests Have a bug or a feature request? Please first read the issue guidelines and search for existing and closed issues. If your problem or idea is not addressed yet, please open a new issue. Documentation Bootstrap’s documentation, included in this repo in the root directory, is built with Astro and publicly hosted on GitHub Pages at https://getbootstrap.com/. The docs may also be run locally. Documentation search is powered by Pagefind. Running documentation locally Run npm install to install the Node.js dependencies, including Astro (the site builder). Run npm run test (or a specific npm script) to rebuild distributed CSS and JavaScript files, as well as our docs assets. From the root /bootstrap directory, run npm run docs-serve in the command line. Open http://localhost:9001 in your browser, and voilà. Learn more about using Astro by reading its documentation. Documentation for previous releases You can find all our previous releases docs on https://getbootstrap.com/docs/versions/. Previous releases and their documentation are also available for download. Contributing Please read through our contributing guidelines. Included are directions for opening issues, coding standards, and notes on development. Moreover, if your pull request contains JavaScript patches or features, you must include relevant unit tests. All HTML and CSS should conform to the Code Guide, maintained by Mark Otto. Editor preferences are available in the editor config for easy use in common text editors. Read more and download plugins at https://editorconfig.org/. Community Get updates on Bootstrap’s development and chat with the project maintainers and community members. Follow @getbootstrap on X. Read and subscribe to The Official Bootstrap Blog. Ask questions and explore our GitHub Discussions. Discuss, ask questions, and more on the community Discord or Bootstrap subreddit. Chat with fellow Bootstrappers in IRC. On the irc.libera.chat server, in the #bootstrap channel. Implementation help may be found at Stack Overflow (tagged bootstrap-5). Developers should use the keyword bootstrap on packages which modify or add to the functionality of Bootstrap when distributing through npm or similar delivery mechanisms for maximum discoverability. Versioning For transparency into our release cycle and in striving to maintain backward compatibility, Bootstrap is maintained under the Semantic Versioning guidelines. Sometimes we screw up, but we adhere to those rules whenever possible. See the Releases section of our GitHub project for changelogs for each release version of Bootstrap. Release announcement posts on the official Bootstrap blog contain summaries of the most noteworthy changes made in each release. Creators Mark Otto https://x.com/mdo https://github.com/mdo Jacob Thornton https://x.com/fat https://github.com/fat Thanks Thanks to Netlify for providing us with Deploy Previews! Sponsors Support this project by becoming a sponsor. Your logo will show up here with a link to your website. [Become a sponsor] Backers Thank you to all our backers! 🙏 [Become a backer] Copyright and license Code and documentation copyright 2011-2026 the Bootstrap Authors. Code released under the MIT License. Docs released under Creative Commons.
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What Hacker News says

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tmsh·Dec 12, 2020
Top-scored projects: https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/ossf-criticality-sc... For JS: node│https://github.com/nodejs/node│JavaScript│73│0│3226│10│64.7│63│1517│2055│4.1│10499… react-native│https://github.com/facebook/react-native│JavaScript│71│0│2866│5│50.5│15│778│1694│3… react│https://github.com/facebook/react│JavaScript│91│0│1609│6│20.9│6│692│973│3.8│333619… gatsby│https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby│JavaScript│67│0│3873│3│83.3│2│2181│2526│1.9│118… three.js│https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js│JavaScript│130│0│1694│8│64.3│12│606│801│3.1│229… bootstrap│https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap│JavaScript│113│0│1360│7│21.7│9│729│912│2.1│14966… material-ui│https://github.com/mui-org/material-ui│JavaScript│76│0│2256│7│53.8│43│1561│1826│2.… odo
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o│https://github.com/odoo/odoo│JavaScript│79│0│1761│4│131.1│0│6105│7104│1.9│50311│0.… next.js│https://github.com/vercel/next.js│JavaScript│50│0│1415│5│54.6│426│1596│2194│3.0│43… Rocket.Chat│https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat│JavaScript│67│0│773│4│28.8│135│1242│2002… cypress│https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress│JavaScript│70│0│235│5│27.7│29│934│1573│2.5│7… amphtml│https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml│JavaScript│64│0│1055│8│56.7│118│1317│1848│1.… amphtml│https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml│JavaScript│64│0│1055│8│56.7│118│1317│1848│1.… amphtml│https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml│JavaScript│64│0│1055│8│56.7│118│1317│1847│1.… that's a bug for 'amphtml' rite?
In Finding Critical Open Source Projects
dmix·Jun 17, 2020
It's too bad they didn't rewrite the JS in Typescript. That would have been neat. But congrats on improving performance and code quality nonetheless. Looks to be ES6 class driven: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/main/js/src/dropdown.... Going for simple JS might make more sense for simple websites with broad deployment, so I can see the arguments against TS here. Like choosing CSS over SCSS for simple portability. Still, it would be a fun/simple type driven project to browse through, had they chosen it.
In Bootstrap 5 alpha
DCoder·May 12, 2020
This is like asking "vim or emacs". You'll never change anyone's mind on the matter, but you'll get the same old arguments from ~ten years ago [0] about how this is both "very simple†" and "pointless mental overhead" at the same time. † (if you follow these rules I memorized to show off how smart I am). --- [0]: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/3057
In ESLint 7.0
Etheryte·Apr 7, 2020
Reading through the changeset[1], this isn't a minor "some styles out of line" update, they're removing a number of polyfills that were there to only serve IE11 that affect many of their core components. Without testing it out, I would expect most components that use Javascript for functional enhancements to be broken. Most of the style changes are fairly minor and nothing you couldn't fix as you go, but the script changes are breaking changes. [1] https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/30377/files
In Bootstrap v5: drop Internet Explorer support
DonHopkins·Feb 16, 2020
Crockford on Bootstrap's semicolon omission: “insanely stupid code” (github.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3842713 https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/3057 And don't forget to semicolon-harden your most important mission-critical code: https://www.bluejava.com/4PN/Semicolons-in-JavaScript---The-... ;;;;;;;;;;;; // protective wall of semicolons ;;var a = 10, b = 20;; ;; ;;function add(a,b) ;;{;; ;;return a + b;;;;;;;; // this function MUST work ;;};; ;;;;;;;;;;;; // protective wall of semicolons
In Plink-plonk.js – hear webpages render with DOM observer and audio API
tony·Jan 20, 2020
As someone with a footprint in open source, I agree that giving labor for free sets an expectation. That said, I never had the request to rewrite in a different programming language, yet. Downstream library users as well as package maintainers seem delighted with Python. I think GitHub sponsors and patreon-like systems can be the way forward. If open source users said "hey, I'll give (10/20/50/whatevers affordable to me now) bucks a month toward open source projects" and then proportion them across projects they choose, that can go forward to things. But open source is much bigger than projects themselves. One example would be package maintainers on Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, BSD port systems, and so on. They put enough time into it they should be compensated. I think with these new platforms like GH Sponsors, we're on a trajectory tow
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ard fixing this. > I got a drive-by comment effectively telling me to use a “working” license instead, along with some (what felt like) condescending lecture on how licensing works. I hope my many drive-by github issues on licenses over the years weren't taken as condescending. I want to avoid the headache in the future of a migration, an example of what it can entail: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/2054 That's a lot of work. Worse is the matter of ambiguity with certain licenses. Having something clear and simple that'll work across jurisdictions is a winner. Wishful thinking or intent doesn't matter when the door is left open for a legal adversary different interpretation of the facts, then having to pay expenses to defend it. That's drama in and of itself, but could also really hurt a business, esp. in early phases.
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