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Corbin's avatar

How long did it take you to swap out bootstrap for your own CSS or another CSS framework in the spark blade templates?

It seems like there are A LOT of blade templates and vue components in the Spark package. I'm wondering if any of you went through the process of actually swapping out bootstrap for something else and how many hours, days, or maybe weeks it took you?

Thanks guys. I know this is a forum where there's suppose to be binary answer, but I can't get much of a response anywhere else.

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artcore's avatar

I don't know Spark but a few months (year? geez) I decided to kick bs out. Just got tired of the amount of markup and css classes needed for simple things. I had a bs without jQuery dependency btw

So considering you have to rewrite all your html markup, that could amount to a lot of time. On the other hand you can rewrite to reusable components and have a good dev speed boost for all your future projects.

Not to mention bs5 could be another learning curve like from bs2->3 (spans) and bs3->4 (flex)

time 'lost' today is time gained tomorrow

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