Hacker News Reader

Are you saying Angular and Bootstrap provide you the same things? I do not see in what world those two are synonymous, one is basically a glorified ui kit with some limited js backed widgets, the other is a framework for building applications.

View on HN

No. Not at all.

Let me explain. I see two groups of bootstrap users:

1. Those that use the framework for JavaScript tooling. Things like dropdowns, hamburger menus, tooltips, etc. They typically don't use any of the prepackaged bootstrap styling. This was me for a long time.

2. Those that use the framework for both aesthetic specific CSS and JavaScript.

Angular helps Group 1 rid themselves of bootstrap. Group 2 is largely helpless.

So....asking for a friend. But why is using bootstrap for #2 a bad thing?

It's not necessarily a bad thing. What I meant was that it's much harder to convince someone already relying on prepackaged styling to abandon that for a custom UI.

The full-bootstrap-stack is perfectly fine for things like side projects.

It's not, bootstrap gives you a nice starting point to design your application.

You might have misread. He's wondering if you need Bootstrap when you're using Angular and suggesting that you don't. No where does he conflate the two.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com