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by hitgeek 3456 days ago
what is the compatibility store for third party components/themes based on bootstrap.

one of the things I love about bootstrap is being able to google "bootstrap <some component>" and get something that works and looks nice.

will these third party components need to be re-written and support multiple bootstrap versions?
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CharlesW 3456 days ago
> what is the compatibility store for third party components/themes based on bootstrap.

I can't speak to components, but for themes there's already a migration guide, and I'd expect to see tools that help with the conversion since they're conceptually similar.

https://v4-alpha.getbootstrap.com/migration/

> will these third party components need to be re-written and support multiple bootstrap versions?

They'll need to be updated, but it's a one way trip. It wouldn't surprise me to see popular themes maintain Bootstrap 3 and Bootstrap 4 versions in parallel for a while.

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WorldMaker 3456 days ago
«It wouldn't surprise me to see popular themes maintain Bootstrap 3 and Bootstrap 4 versions in parallel for a while.»

I recall that happened with the Bootstrap 2 and 3 transition with some components maintaining versions for both for a while.

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coderdude 3456 days ago
That's been the case for the most part on WrapBootstrap. Items that are very active are pushing out new BS4 versions while keeping the 3.x-based versions in the package. Some items that haven't seen an update to newer versions of the 3.x branch are jumping straight to 4.

The jump between 3 to 4 isn't as great as the jump from 2 to 3. With the jump from 2 to 3, many items never made the transition. I don't think that will be the case this time around.

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