Re:Show HN: Strapping – Customize Bootstrap on the fly
by bbrennan on Monday October 19, 2015 @10:54PM
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You're right - right now it's basically a nicer version of getbootstrap.com/customize, with two extras:
- You can run it locally (or incorporate it into a NodeJS project) so that making changes in the UI changes a local bootstrap.css. No need to download or copy/paste styles, recompile LESS, etc
- User-generated Extensions. Third parties can add bits of LESS that you can incorporate to do things like re-style buttons and alerts, or add new components
I also have an open bug to incorporate pre-built bootswatch themes: https://github.com/bobby-brennan/strapping/issues
This was also a bit of an inspiration: http://bootstrap-live-customizer.com/
Am I missing something here? What I think would be really cool is if you mashed something like this together with some prebuilt layouts (something like http://startbootstrap.com/template-categories/unstyled/), and then have more options to do slightly more complex things like a list of font selections, full-site color schemes, etc..
Anyway, not trying to put down your site. It looks pretty clean, just not seeing the need for it personally.