Boots on the Ground

21 Feb 2024

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An Essential Structure

UI frameworks are a foundational tool for front-end web development, streamlining the process of designing responsive and visually appealing websites. As with most applications, efficiency is vital since we want more time to think about our code rather than spend it typing it out. It offers a collection of HTML and CSS-based design templates for buttons, navigation, forms, and other components to make web development faster and easier. This valuable toolkit allows developers to skip several steps compared purely to using HTML and CSS to build these applications. In much the same way, it wouldn’t be ideal for civil engineers to build new projects from the ground up through sheer manual labor. Power tools and construction vehicles are available and exist in order to lighten the burden of such a colossal task. Ultimately, this library significantly reduces the amount of effort and time needed by providing pre-built components and styles. Programmers can readily access this collection in order to design the UI swiftly, with more attention brought to the top-level design and functionality.

Personal Experience

Initially, I struggled to navigate my way around using Bootstrap 5. Reading through documentation for class implementation was challenging since I found others to be confusing to understand. But without this framework, it wouldn’t have been entirely possible for me to produce a Microsoft clone website. It would have been agonizing to attempt it by brute forcing my way with pure HTML and CSS. I found the experience to be greatly informative since I saw the joys of success and the harrowing complexities of formatting a seamless user interface. Getting more familiar with Bootstrap allowed me to better appreciate its value in simplifying the process and improving the quality of different HTML/CSS assignments.

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