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by treelovinhippie 5038 days ago
"The web's most popular front-end template". With the popularity of Bootstrap, this claim seems unbelievable.
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whalesalad 5037 days ago
HTML5 Boilerplate has been around a lot longer than Bootstrap and has been adopted by more in the general front-end community. Whereas Bootstrap has been adopted by more generalist developers building entire web applications.
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necolas 5038 days ago
Bootstrap isn't a template. It's a complete UI framework/toolkit.
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andybak 5037 days ago
Which works nicely alongside Boilerplate: initializr.com
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Francisc 5037 days ago
They are different beasts. Learn your stuff before saying stuff like this.
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nimbupani 5037 days ago
Bootstrap is a very good friend of Boilerplate.
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SkyMarshal 5037 days ago
You can have both:

http://initializr.com

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