We've had css frameworks before, but they were usually concerned with letting you position things along a grid structure.
The great thing about Bootstrap is that it provides you with a full complement of UI "widgets" that look reasonably good, filled in a page chocked full of examples.
We have a good designer on staff and so we were slowly starting to build something along these lines, but standardizing on Bootstrap has saved such enormous quantities of time I can't recommend it enough. I've used it on two or three projects already and it makes me happy inside.
Previously we were following jQuery UI themes, but Bootstrap is better in that it provides very nice defaults for many different types of content.
Our products are new programming languages, new patterns, new programming paradigm.
FWIW, I think Node is a great way to teach, explore, and learn JavaScript without the browser. It helps me learn modern JS techniques quickly. But Node powering my web-server? Like Rihanna...
PS: Check out this free online book: http://eloquentjavascript.net/ big props to the author. He's done a great job teaching modern JS.
I like Node insofar as it distracts hate away from the Ruby community, but c'mon now.
rails is lot older and it came to github when forking was the norm , watching came lot later
in terms of forks nodejs is half the popularity of rails, but I wish more contributors for nodejs
rails is lot older and it came to github when forking
was the norm , watching came lot later
(I suppose it was a heavy form of bookmarking something.)
If you want to compare on contributors Rails would again beat most open source projects , I remember seeing that number well above 1000
- C# 22.2K followers
- NodeJS 2.2K followers
I guess someone in the Rails community could create a similar project and say "OK guys everyone go follow Rails on GitHub."
I have no issue with the technique as businesses do this all the time... encouraging customers to Like them on Facebook, follow them on Twitter, etc. Perhaps this a hacker version of social media marketing... who needs Facebook likes, let's get Github followers.
As you can see, it uses knockout.js and this is why I wrote it - I wanted to learn this library and to study whole client-side rendering and templating concept a bit. It's also my first project using bootstrap.css.
It was a fun thing to hack on.
Of course, I'm happy that node.js has more followers than RoR, simply because I like node.js more than RoR. However, lets not make it a big deal. These are just numbers.