It's usually helpful to include a demo with these things :)

I also turned away when I couldn't find a demo. Github provides free pages hosting, no reason to not have a demo.

Agreed.

I'm sure it's beautiful, but it looks basically like what I'd expect a GitHub repo to look like. :D

Uhmm, I just looked briefly at HTML5 Boilerplate in the past, and I was wondering what is it providing that Bootstrap is missing ? How come Bootstrap wasn't enough on its own ?

HTML5 Boilerplate is more of a best practices HTML/CSS template. Bootstrap is a css design framework for creating a nice user interface with little effort.

They actually have some of the same stuff like css resets and normalization, but they are used for different things.

A great combination. How does it compare with the mashup of Bootstrap + H5BP that can be downloaded at http://www.initializr.com/ ?

Thank you. I didn't know about this.

html5boilerplate used to be my goto html / css structure for starting a project. I recently build one using bootstrap 2.0... and it was significantly less hassle, but still looks good and works on desktop and mobile

Yeah, I played around a bit with this and it's alright, but I didn't find anything different from the others (twitter bootstrap or foundation, etc), I mean besides combining boilerplate and bootsrap. Unless I'm missing something? because there's no demo or documentation! hehe :) http://dropafile.com/boilerstrap/

Can anyone explain to me why this has a dependency on node? All the things it's using node to do can be done with Ruby (which it also depends on)? It always bugs me when a project has excessive dependencies without any good reason, and this is worse than an extra lib or two, this requires a second, entirely separate, ecosystem (Node vs. Ruby).