Jolt Awards 2013: The Best Programmer Libraries
, March 26, 2013 The best programmer libraries of the past year
Productivity Award: Twitter Bootstrap 2.2.1
Ask developers to build a user interface, and you'll invariably end up with something functional, but ugly. There are exceptions, of course, but for the rest of us, there is Bootstrap, a Web interface library open-sourced by Twitter that enables anyone to build fantastic UIs.
Whether you intend to build a static website or a single page Web application, Bootstrap has you covered with a complete framework that includes a grid layout, graphic components, JavaScript plugins, and typography support. Bootstrap also provides a powerful and responsive CSS that allows page rendering to degrade gracefully when viewed on mobile browsers which is such a crucial feature nowadays.
Bootstrap plays nice with your existing front-end toolkit: You can keep using all the jQuery, Knockout, or Backbone goodness you're used to without fearing any framework face-off.
David Dossot